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INDIANAPOLIS – A pair of East Coast Conference Men’s Soccer teams have earned bids into the 2026 NCAA Division II Men’s Soccer Championship Super Region 1 field, announced by the NCAA on Monday night.  
 
2026 ECC Champion and Regular Season Champion, St. Thomas Aquinas (11-4-4) earned the ECC automatic qualifier. The Spartan are making their second NCAA berth in team history, last making the field in 2011. STAC will be the No. 6 seed in the region and will face No. 3 Southern New Hampshire on Friday, November 13 in the first round at No. 2 seed Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia.


 
Mercy (12-5-3), which is receiving votes nationally in the United Soccer Coaches Top 25 Poll, received an at-large bid into the field. The Mavericks are making their sixth trip into the NCAA Tournament, the first since 2022. The Mavericks will face No. 8 seed Franklin Pierce University in the first round of the tournament on Friday, November 13 at 3 p.m. at No. 1 seed University of Charleston in Charleston, West Virginia.



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Founded as the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference in 1989 and rechristened the East Coast Conference in July 2006, the ECC was formed to enhance intercollegiate athletic competition among member institutions and to assist them in integrating athletics into their academic program in a fiscally sound way. The ECC is committed to the highest standards of scholarship, sportsmanship, teamwork, and citizenship. Its mission is to promote the total person concept in its student-athletes, which stresses the abilities to excel in academic achievement, athletic competition, and positive character traits. East Coast Conference members include: Daemen University (Amherst, N.Y.); University of the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.); D'Youville University (Buffalo, N.Y.); Mercy University (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.); Molloy University (Rockville Centre, N.Y.); Queens College (Flushing, N.Y.); Roberts Wesleyan University (Rochester, N.Y.); College of Staten Island (Staten Island, N.Y.); and St. Thomas Aquinas College (Sparkill, N.Y.). The ECC also is home to 13 associate members in the sports of women’s bowling (3), men’s and women’s indoor track & field (3), men's volleyball (2), field hockey (1), and men’s lacrosse (1).

The ECC sponsors the following championship sports: baseball; men’s and women’s basketball; women's bowling; men’s and women’s cross country; field hockey; men’s and women’s lacrosse; men’s and women’s indoor track and field; men’s and women’s outdoor track and field; men’s and women’s soccer; softball; and men's and women’s volleyball.
 
The East Coast Conference is a proud member of the NCAA and Division II. Division II is a dynamic and engaging group of colleges, institutions and conferences of varying sizes and educational missions. Division II members encourage and support diversity; value sportsmanship, fairness and equity; and place the highest priority on the overall educational excellence of the student-athlete.