In California, following World War II, several new colleges were opened causing many new conference alignments.
During these years, a second issue causing conferencing changes was the varying size of colleges.
This caused great difficulty in finding realistic levels of competition for smaller colleges who, for the most part, were geographically isolated.
When the small college designation was dropped, it motivated the forming of separate conferences for football only and using geographic consideration for all other sports.
In 1969-70, the Mission, an all sports conference, was formed, consisting of Chaffey, Citrus, Cypress, Grossmont, Palomar, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Southwestern Colleges.
The Conference has been active in seeking ways to improve Community College Athletics locally and statewide.
), the Conference was authorized to allow open recruiting in adjacent community college districts in San Diego County.