The Pennsylvania Collegiate Athletic Association (PCAA) is an athletic conference established in 1979 in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a partnership between the Eastern Pennsylvania Athletic Association (EPCC) and Western Pennsylvania Athletic Association (WPCC). Both the EPCC and the WPCC are separate entities functioning as athletic conferences, both with long-standing success and local notoriety. Both the EPCC and the WPCC still govern themselves and function separately from each other however the EPCC champion and the WPCC champion face each other in a special post-season match to crown a PCAA champion each season within each sport. The PCAA offers competition in a total of six men's sports, six women's sports, and three co-ed team sports.