High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pacific Collegiate Hockey Association is a collegiate hockey conference within Division 3 of the American Collegiate Hockey Association. The PCHA has been in operation for more than thirty years and administers the PCHA Playoffs at the conclusion of each regular season. The winner of the PCHA Playoffs receives the coveted Adams Cup, named after Cary Adams who started the conference. At the end of the 2010-11 season College of the Canyons became the first PCHA team to win the National Championship defeating Hope College 5-3. After the 2011-12 season the last original member, Cal State Northridge, left for Division 2 and College of the Canyons and Northern Arizona left the conference to become independent Division 3 teams leaving the PCHA as a Northern California conference.