[ CAL Homepage ] [ Officers ] [ By-Laws ] [ Rules ]

The Cape-Atlantic League
Offering the best in scholastic sports competition since 1949

---

---

OUR HISTORY
The Cape-Atlantic League was formed in the Fall of 1949 by six schools - Cape May, Egg Harbor City, Hammonton, Middle Township, Ocean City and Wildwood. It was reduced to five schools when Egg Harbor City closed its doors in 1960. The next year, 1961-62, newly opened Mainland Regional joined the league, along with Pleasantville, increasing the number of schools to seven.

The CAL remained at seven schools until 1968-69, when Sacred Heart and Wildwood Catholic became the first Parochial schools to join. That increased the number of schools to nine. Mainland left the league in 1969-70, dropping the number to eight. It increased to 10 in 1973-74 with the addition of Buena and St. Joseph.

Those were the 10 schools in the league in 1982-83, when the Cape-Atlantic League merged with the Southern Division of the South Jersey Conference. That brought Mainland back into the league along with Atlantic City, Holy Spirit, Absegami, Oakcrest, Millville, Vineland, Bridgeton and Cumberland. St. Augustine Prep also joined. Two conferences - the American, for schools with larger enrollments, and the smaller National - were created, generally along the same lines as the two old leagues. Each conference has been broken up into two divisions in some sports, also determined by enrollment.

Egg Harbor Township joined in 1983-84 and, in subsequent years, Cape May Tech and Our Lady of Mercy came aboard. As the CAL entered a new century, Cumberland left to join the Tri-County Conference in 2000 and Wildwood, after 53 continuous years as a member, also left in 2002 to join the Tri-County Conference.

Currently the Cape-Atlantic League comprises 21 schools from Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Gloucester counties. It has developed into one of the most successful leagues in the State of New Jersey.