The CCLA incorporates teams in Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

The CCLA is one of the original MCLA conferences and at one point included schools across the Midwestern United States.

Michigan won three straight MCLA DI Champions in 2008, 2009, and 2010 while the program was a member of the CCLA.

[2] In 2011 the university announced a move to the NCAA Division I level, ending the Wolverines long run of consecutive CCLA conference championships at 11.

[2] At the Division II level the CCLA has been represented in the MCLA DII Championship in 2008 when Grand Valley State lost 17–10 to Westminster College[3] and in 2009 Dayton lost to the University of St. Thomas 11-16.