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.

Academy of Art University stopped sponsoring baseball following the 2023 season, and Holy Names University closed following the 2023 school year. Westmont College started their transition to the NCAA Division II Pacific West Conference in 2023-2024 while Jessup University, Menlo College, & Vanguard University followed for the 2024-2025 school year. Azusa Pacific University announced they will drop to NCAA Division III for the 2027 season & Fresno Pacific University will be leaving for the CCAA in 2027.

2026 Schools

map of 2025 schools

• Azusa Pacific University
• Biola University
• Chaminade University of Honolulu
• Concordia University Irvine
• Fresno Pacific University
• University of Hawaii at Hilo
• Hawai'i Pacific University
• Jessup University
• Menlo College
• Point Loma Nazarene University
• Vanguard University
• Westmont College

Schools not sponsoring baseball

• Dominican University of California

Former Members & Last Baseball season

• Academy of Art University - 2023
• California Baptist University - 2018
• Dixie State College of Utah - 2018
• Grand Canyon University - 2013
• Holy Names University - 2023

Conference Baseball Champions

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	Point Loma Nazarene University	Point Loma Nazarene University
2025	Westmont College	Westmont College
2026	Point Loma Nazarene University	Point Loma Nazarene University

Sources include: PacWest website, wikipedia