The West Coast Conference (known as the WCC) is a conference participating in the NCAA's Division I, with member institutions in , , , and . It was founded in 1952 by five schools in the San Francisco Bay area. All current members are private, religiously-affiliated schools. Until BYU joined in 2011, the WCC had not had a change in membership since 1980, a degree of stability bettered only by the Ivy League (stable since 1954).