The Empire 8 Presidents Council has announced that Stevens Institute of
Technology (Hoboken, N.J.) will join the Empire 8 as full member for the
2007-08 academic year. The Ducks will join the conference as an
affiliate member for field hockey beginning in the 2006 season.
Stevens Tech offers 19 sports currently sponsored by the Empire 8:
baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s cross country,
women’s cross country, field hockey, men’s lacrosse, women’s lacrosse,
men’s soccer, women’s soccer, men’s swimming and diving, women’s swimming
and diving, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, men’s indoor track and field,
women’s indoor track and field, men’s outdoor track and field, women’s
outdoor track and field, and volleyball.
The addition of Stevens Tech’s field hockey team (along with Washington
and Jefferson, who also joins the conference as an affiliate member in
that sport in 2006), will give the Empire 8 champion an automatic bid to
the NCAA playoffs. The conference also owns automatic bids to the NCAA
playoffs in men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s lacrosse,
women’s lacrosse, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, softball, and volleyball.
Stevens Tech is currently a member of the Skyline Conference.
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