2021-22 CCC Women's Season



This is the 2021-22 Commonwealth Coast Conference Women's hockey season. This is the conference's first season of actual play after being previously known as the Colonial Hockey Conference and then being forced to cancel the 2020-21 season.

Membership Changes
On October 4, 2019 the Commonwealth Coast Conference announced it would be starting to sponsor women's hockey. It will assume operations of the Colonial Hockey Conference. As part of the announcement it was announced that the Suffolk Rams would be joining the conference for 2020-21 and that Western New England Golden Bears would be starting a women's team for 2020-21. This will make six of the seven members of the CHC also being full members of the CCC with the Becker Hawks being an associate member of the conference for both men's and women's hockey. With having seven members the conference will retain its automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

On February 13, 2020 Curry College announced that the college would be adding women's ice hockey as a varsity sport starting with the 2021-22 season when the conference has already been changed into the CCC giving the conference eight members.

On March 28, 2021, the Becker College Board of Trustees announced the decision to permanently close the college effective the end of the 2020-21 academic year.

Format
Single elimination tournament. The fourth place team hosts the fifth place team in the first round. The winner then place the first place team while the second and third place teams meet in the semifinals. The semifinal winners meet for the conference championship. The conference tournament champion earns the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Division III Women's Ice Hockey Tournament.

The conference would announce on February 3rd that the conference tournament would now be open to all teams as long as they have completed at least 13 of the 18 conference games which all teams had by the end of the regular season.

All Seven teams qualified for the tournament. The top seed earns a bye to the semifinals.