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The conference was founded in 1975 as the Virginia College Conference.

On January 1, 1976, the name was changed to the Old Dominion Athletic Conference.

The 1976 – 77 season was the first in which championships were offered.

In 1982 – 83, women's sports were added.

In 1988, Virginia Wesleyan was added as a member, and, in 1990, Guilford became the first member located outside Virginia.

Catholic University was a full-sport member in the 1980s along with Maryville College.

Both resigned their memberships in the mid-to-late 1980s.

In 1999, Catholic returned as a football-only member.

The only other school that has left the conference is Mary Baldwin College, which left in 1999 to join the Atlantic Women's Colleges Conference.