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September 2010, NCAA-Conferences
Patriot League Celebrates 20 Years
The Patriot League will mark its 20th Anniversary as an all-sport conference during the 2010-11 academic year with a variety of retrospective initiatives highlighting the achievements and personalities of former and current student-athletes, coaches and administrators. Founded in 1986 as a football-only conference, the Patriot League expanded to include 22 sports, 11 men and 11 women, in 1990 and began competition that fall.
After four years as a football-only entity, charter members Bucknell University, Colgate University, Fordham University, the College of the Holy Cross, Lafayette College and Lehigh University were joined by the United States Military Academy to found the all-sport Patriot League in 1990, with the United States Naval Academy joining as a full member in 1991. Fordham resigned its full membership in 1995 but remains an associate member in football to this day. In 2001, the League's footprint expanded to Washington, D.C. with the additions of American University as a full member and Georgetown University as an associate member in football. The League expanded to add rowing as its 23rd championship sport in 2005. To read more, click here.