Pacific West Conference
The Pacific West Conference (PacWest) was formed in 1992 when the Great Northwest Conference, a men's conference, merged with the Continental Divide Conference, a women's conference containing some of the same members. At one point the conference expanded to 16 members, but in 2001, member schools from Washington, Alaska, California, and Oregon left to form the new Great Northwest Athletic Conference. In 2005, all remaining non-Hawaii schools left to join the Heartland Conference. The four Hawaii universities remaining in the conference played one season as “independents”, receiving a waiver from the NCAA to keep the conference in name, because in order to be eligible for conference membership in the NCAA, a conference must consist of a minimum of six member institutions who sponsor at least ten sports, with two team sports for each gender. The conference regained full conference status in NCAA Division II by gaining new member universities, including Notre Dame de Namur University, Grand Canyon University, Dixie State College of Utah and Academy of Art University.
In 2008, it was announced that the conference would sponsor baseball as its 11th sport.
The PacWest is adding California Baptist University in 2011-2012, Azusa Pacific University, Fresno Pacific University, Point Loma Nazarene University, and Holy Names University in 2012-2013 [1]. Holy Names is planning to add a baseball program in 2012-2013.
Westmont College will start transition to the NCAA Division II Pacific West Conference in 2023-2024 while Jessup University, Menlo College, & Vanguard University are planned to follow in 2024-2025. Academy of Art University stopped sponsoring baseball following the 2023 season, and Holy Names University will closed following the 2023 school year.
2024 Schools[edit]
- Azusa Pacific University
- Biola University
- Chaminade University of Honolulu
- Concordia University Irvine
- Fresno Pacific University
- University of Hawaii at Hilo
- Hawai'i Pacific University
- Point Loma Nazarene University
- Westmont College
Schools not sponsoring baseball[edit]
- Academy of Art University
- Dominican University of California
Conference Baseball Champions[edit]
| Year | Regular Season | Tournament | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Dixie State College of Utah | -- | |||||
| 2010 | Hawaii Pacific University | -- | |||||
| 2011 | Dixie State College of Utah | -- | |||||
| 2012 | California Baptist University | -- | |||||
| 2013 | California Baptist University Grand Canyon University |
-- | |||||
| 2014 | Dixie State College of Utah | -- | |||||
| 2015 | Dixie State College of Utah | -- | |||||
| 2016 | California Baptist University | -- | |||||
| 2017 | Azusa Pacific University | -- | |||||
| 2018 | Azusa Pacific University | -- | |||||
| 2019 | Azusa Pacific University | -- | |||||
| 2020 | Season cancelled in March | ||||||
| 2021 | Azusa Pacific University | -- | |||||
| 2022 | Point Loma Nazarene University | -- | |||||
| 2023 | Point Loma Nazarene University | Azusa Pacific University | |||||
| 2024 | |||||||
Sources include: PacWest website, wikipedia
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