Coastal Collegiate Sports Association

Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA)
Established	2008
Association	NCAA
Division	Division I
Members	22 (3 men, 14 women, 5 men & women)
Sports fielded	2 (men's: 1; women's: 2)
Region	South and New Jersey
Former names	Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association
Headquarters	Macon, Georgia
Commissioner	Mike Hagen (since October, 2015)
Website	theccsa.com
Locations

The Coastal Collegiate Sports Association is an NCAA Division I college athletic conference. Its members are almost all located in the South of the United States; the only exception is the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Founded in 2007, the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) was originally developed by four regional Division I conferences -- the Atlantic Sun Conference, Big South Conference, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, and the Southern Conference, to create a centralized home for their members with swimming and diving programs. Now in its ninth season, the CCSA has become one of the largest Division I conferences in the country sponsoring swimming and diving, with 15 competing members from seven states and the District of Columbia .

In October of 2015, the CCSA added the newly recognized NCAA sport of beach volleyball and rebranded itself the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. Seven new members, plus the beach volleyball team of CCSA men's swimming member Florida Atlantic, joined the conference for the new sport with the first CCSA Beach Volleyball Championship to be held at LakePoint Sports Complex in Emerson, Georgia on April 22–24, 2016.^[1]

With the expansion, the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association now has 22 member schools, representing ten states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia) and the District of Columbia.

Members

Yellow background denotes schools leaving after the 2015–16 school year. Green background denotes schools joining for the 2015-16 school year.

Men's

Women's

School	Nickname	City	State	Joined	Primary Conference	Beach Volleyball	Swimming
Alabama Birmingham !University of Alabama at Birmingham	Blazers	Birmingham	Alabama	2015	Conference USA	Y	N
Campbell University	Camels	Buies Creek	North Carolina	2008	Big South Conference	N	Y
Florida Atlantic University	Owls	Boca Raton	Florida	2015	Conference USA	Y	N
Florida Gulf Coast University	Eagles	Fort Myers	Florida	2008	Atlantic Sun Conference	N	Y
Florida International University	Panthers	University Park	Florida	2015	Conference USA	Y	N
Florida State University	Seminoles	Tallahassee	Florida	2015	Atlantic Coast Conference	Y	N
Gardner–Webb University	Runnin' Bulldogs	Boiling Springs	North Carolina	2008	Big South Conference	N	Y
Georgia Southern University	Eagles	Statesboro	Georgia	2008	Sun Belt Conference	N	Y
Georgia State University	Panthers	Atlanta	Georgia	2015	Sun Belt Conference	Y	N
Howard University	Lady Bison	Washington	District of Columbia	2008	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	N	Y
Incarnate Word !University of the Incarnate Word	Cardinals	San Antonio	Texas	2013	Southland Conference	N	Y
Liberty University	Lady Flames	Lynchburg	Virginia	2011	Big South Conference	N	Y
Louisiana State University	Tigers	Baton Rouge	Louisiana	2015	Southeastern Conference	Y	N
North Carolina A and T !North Carolina A&T State University	Aggies	Greensboro	North Carolina	2008	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference	N	Y
North Carolina Asheville !University of North Carolina at Asheville	Bulldogs	Asheville	North Carolina	2012	Big South Conference	N	Y
North Florida !University of North Florida	Ospreys	Jacksonville	Florida	2008	Atlantic Sun Conference	N	Y
South Carolina !University of South Carolina	Gamecocks	Columbia	South Carolina	2015	Southeastern Conference	Y	N
Tulane University	Green Wave	New Orleans	Louisiana	2015	American Athletic Conference	Y	N
Virginia Military Institute	Keydets	Lexington	Virginia	2008	Southern Conference	N	Y

Former members (men & women)

Membership timeline

Swimming members (M men W women) (Beach volleyball members) Members for both (M men W women) Left the conference

Conference Swimming Champions (men & women)

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References

External links

• Official website