team and individual champions

The inaugural Northeast Conference women's golf tournament took place in 1998 at the Summit Country Club.  Preseason favorite St. Francis (PA) came from behind on the second day to overtake Central Connecticut State and win the championship.  In 1999, St. Francis (PA) improved its score by a phenomenal 61 strokes and won its second straight title, besting Central Connecticut State by seven shots.  Michele Raymond of St. Francis (PA) won the first of two NEC individual titles with a 158 (+14).  The tournament was moved to the spring season in 2001 as Central Connecticut State finally overtook St. Francis (PA), winning by a slim nine-stroke margin to earn the league's first-ever automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.  St. Francis (PA) bounced back in a big way in 2002, breaking the tourney record by 44 strokes as Raymond captured her second individual crown by ousting Long Island's Shauna Wilde on the second playoff hole.  The Red Flash were victorious once again in 2003 with a 21-stroke victory over Long Island, and won for the fifth time in six years in 2004, besting the Blackbirds by 19 strokes.  Long Island won its first championship in 2005, as NEC Golfer of the Year Shauna Wilde fired a tourney record 149, shattering the previous mark by seven strokes.  St. Francis (PA) came back to capture its sixth and seventh league titles in 2006 and 2007.  The Red Flash's Samantha Milosh became the first back-to-back individual winner and second two-time champion in league annals in 2006-07.  Fairleigh Dickinson took home its first NEC championship in 2008 with a two-stroke victory over Sacred Heart, then repeated with a 23-stroke margin over Long Island in 2009.  The Knights won their third in a row in 2010 by a slim three-stroke margin over Long Island once again, but rolled to a fourth consecutive title in 2011 with a 36-stroke victory.  LIU won its second NEC championship in 2012 led by individual champion Cristina Felip, who shattered the 54-hole meet record by shooting one-under 215 for the event.  The Blackbirds defended their title in 2013 and three-peated in 2014 with a tournament record score (898).  That same year, LIU Brooklyn's Marisol Doglioli shot a meet record six-under par 210 as well as the lowest single-round in tournament history when she fired a six-under 66 on the final day of competition. FDU won its fifth title in 2015 behind the play of freshman Gabriela Santini, who won the individual title. The Knights repeated in 2016 with a one-stroke victory over Sacred Heart. Sacred Heart won its first NEC championship in 2017 with a 54-hole record score (888). FDU won it all for the third time in four years in 2018, In doing so, the Knights tied SFU for most championships (seven) in league history. The Knights made it a league record eight titles in 2019 and three-peated in 2021. Sacred Heart snapped the Knights' string in 2022 with the program's second championship and won again in 2023 with a wire-to-wire performance. SHU became the third school to crack 900 strokes in the history of the championship, posting the second-lowest three-round score behind its own record of 888 set back in 2017. In three-peating one year later, the Pioneers set a meet record with a 42-stroke margin of victory. FDU became the first team to ten NEC titles with a one-stroke win over Howard in 2025.