NJIT switches conferences to American East from Atlantic Sun
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Institute of Know-how is switching conferences, joining America East and leaving the Atlantic Sun.
America East declared its board of presidents experienced unanimously voted to to give NJIT entire meeting membership, productive 2020-21.
NJIT will turn into America East’s 10th member and go into a league that is a more pure geographic fit, with college this kind of as Hartford, Maine, Binghamton and Maryland-Baltimore County. The Newark-primarily based college has been competing in NCAA’s Division I since 2006. It sponsors sixteen varsity sports activities.
”Since the starting of our Division I journey 15 a long time back, the objective has generally been to be in a regional meeting and aligned with like-minded establishments,” athletic director Lenny Kaplan explained.
The A-Sun’s northernmost member is Liberty in Virginia. NJIT has been in that meeting since 2015.
NJIT will officially join America East on July one.
”They will be a terrific addiion to our league and reinforce the academic and athletic profile of our meeting,” Commissioner Amy Huchthausen explained.
