Yankee Small College Conference is a division II conference in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association. The conference consists of two-year and four-year schools from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. In 2011 the conference added three new members from the disbanded Sunrise Athletic Conference (NAIA) along with Hampshire College, who previously competed as an independent athletics program.
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