At one point a conference expanded to Xvi members, however inside 2001 member schools from either Wa, Alaska, California, & Oregon left to form a fresh Great Northwest Athletic Conference. Inside 2005, a non-Hawaii schools left to join a Heartland Conference, leaving a Pacific West Conference ii teams short of the NCAA membership requirement.

Current members
Brigham Young University-Hawaii Chaminade University of Honolulu University of Hawaii at Hilo Hawaii Pacific University

Former members
University of Alaska Anchorage University of Alaska Fairbanks Central Washington University Humboldt State University Montana State University-Billings Northwest Nazarene University Saint Martin's College Seattle University Seattle Pacific University Western New Mexico University Western Oregon University Western Washington University