NCAA Division I college athletic conference
Coastal Collegiate Formerly Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association Association NCAA Founded 2008 Commissioner Mike Hagen (since October 2015) Sports fielded
Division Division I No. of teams 4 Headquarters Macon, Georgia Official website theccsa.com
The Coastal Collegiate Sports Association is an NCAA Division I college athletic conference .
Established in 2008, the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) was originally developed by four regional Division I conferences — the ASUN 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.
In October 2015, the CCSA added the newly recognized NCAA sport of beach volleyball and rebranded itself the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association.
CCSA beach volleyball went through major changes in 2021. The CCSA entered into a beach volleyball partnership with Conference USA (C-USA) under which the 2021 CCSA championship in that sport was split into two groups, with the six full C-USA and Sun Belt Conference members playing in one group. Following the 2021 championship, those six schools—C-USA members Florida Atlantic, FIU, Southern Miss, and UAB, plus Sun Belt members Georgia State and Louisiana–Monroe (ULM)—formed a new C-USA beach volleyball league, with another Sun Belt member, Coastal Carolina, joining them.[ 1] [ 2]
In August 2023, ASUN began sponsoring men's and women's swimming and diving fully absorbing the entirety of the CCSA swimming and diving members, and SMU from The American , leaving the four beach volleyball members as the only remaining members of the conference.[ 3]
The CCSA now has 4 member schools, representing four states (Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Texas).
Members
All four remaining members are beach volleyball members.
^ Charleston's Men's and women's swimming joined the CAA after the 2012-13 season before the sport was dropped after the 2014-15 season.
^ Florida A&M's men's and women's swimming was dropped after the 2010-11 season.
^ North Carolina A&T's women's swimming was dropped after the 2015-16 season.
^ Radford's women's swimming was dropped after the 2013-14 season.
Membership timeline
Men's & Women's Swimming
Beach Volleyball
Women's Swimming
Men's Swimming
Men's Swimming & Beach Volleyball
[ 8] [ 9]
Year
Men's
Women's
Site
2008
College of Charleston
Davidson
Huntersville Family Fitness & Aquatics • Huntersville, NC
2009
College of Charleston
Florida Gulf Coast
Gabrielsen Natatorium • Athens, GA
2010
Davidson
Florida Gulf Coast
Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center • Knoxville, TN
2011
Davidson
Florida Gulf Coast
Gabrielsen Natatorium • Athens, GA
2012
Davidson
Florida Gulf Coast
Gabrielsen Natatorium • Athens, GA
2013
Davidson
Florida Gulf Coast
Gabrielsen Natatorium • Athens, GA
2014
Incarnate Word
Liberty
Allan Jones Natatorium • Knoxville, TN
2015
UMBC
Florida Gulf Coast
Gabrielsen Natatorium • Athens, GA
2016
UMBC
Florida Gulf Coast
Gabrielsen Natatorium • Athens, GA
2017
UMBC
Florida Gulf Coast
Gabrielsen Natatorium • Athens, GA
2018
Incarnate Word
Florida Gulf Coast
Gabrielsen Natatorium • Athens, GA
2019
Incarnate Word
Liberty
Liberty Natatorium • Lynchburg, VA
2020
Incarnate Word
Liberty
Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center • Knoxville, TN
2021
Gardner-Webb
Liberty
Liberty Natatorium • Lynchburg, VA
2022
Incarnate Word
Liberty
Liberty Natatorium • Lynchburg, VA
Beach Volleyball Champions
Year
Regular Season
Tournament
Tournament
Tournament Site
Teams toNCAA Tournament
2016[ 10] [ 11] [ 12]
Florida State (7–0)
Florida State
Georgia State
LakePoint Sporting Community • Emerson, GA
Florida State
2017[ 13] [ 14] [ 15]
Florida State (8–0)
Florida State
FIU
LakePoint Sporting Community • Emerson, GA
Florida State
2018[ 16] [ 17] [ 18]
Florida State (10–0)
Florida State
LSU
LakePoint Sporting Community • Emerson, GA
Florida State
2019[ 19] [ 20]
Florida State (13–1)
Florida State
LSU
LakePoint Sporting Community • Emerson, GA
Florida State
2020
No championship held due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021
Florida State (17–1)
Florida State (Aqua Bracket)
LSU (Aqua Bracket)
John Hunt Sand Volleyball Complex • Huntsville, AL
Florida State
2022
TCU (7–1)
Florida State
TCU
John Hunt Sand Volleyball Complex • Huntsville, AL
Florida State
References
^ a b c d e f g "CCSA Announces Beach Volleyball Membership Split With Conference USA; 2022 Championship Dates Set" (Press release). Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. September 28, 2021. Retrieved October 9, 2021 .^ a b "ASUN Conference Announces Additions of Col. of Charleston and UNCW in Beach Volleyball" (Press release). ASUN Conference. July 6, 2021. Retrieved October 9, 2021 .^ "ASUN Conference Adds Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving" . asunsports.org . 2023-08-28. Retrieved 2023-09-27 .^ "Statement From College of Charleston Director of Athletics Joe Hull" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine . CofCSports.com. Disbanded at the conclusion of the 2014-2015 school year^ a b "Six Howard University Athletics Programs Join the Northeast Conference As Associate Members" (Press release). Northeast Conference. July 6, 2020. Retrieved July 17, 2020 .^ "MPSF SWIMMING & DIVING ADDS INCARNATE WORD" (Press release). July 11, 2022. Retrieved July 12, 2022 .^ "NJIT to Join America East Conference as 10th Member Institution" (Press release). NJIT Highlanders. June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .^ "2015-16 CCSA Men's Swimming & Diving Record Book" (PDF) . Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association. Retrieved November 27, 2016 .^ "2015-16 CCSA Women's Swimming & Diving Record Book" (PDF) . Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association. Retrieved November 27, 2016 .^ "CCSA Beach Volleyball Championship Seeds Set; FSU Top Seed" . Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. April 17, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2016 .^ "Florida State Claims First CCSA Beach Championship" . Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. April 24, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2016 .^ "CCSA CHAMPIONS!!!" . Florida State University. April 24, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2016 .^ "CCSA Championship Seeds Set; Florida State and LSU Earn Top Seeds" . Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. April 15, 2017. Retrieved June 20, 2017 .^ "Florida State Goes Back-to-Back as @CCSA_Beach Champions" . Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. April 23, 2017. Retrieved June 20, 2017 .^ "Florida State, LSU and South Carolina To Play in #NCAABeachVB Championship" . Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. April 30, 2017. Retrieved June 20, 2017 .^ "Florida State Earns Top Seed for 2018 CCSA Championship; Pool Play Begins Friday" (Press release). Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. April 15, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018 .^ "Florida State Captures Third Straight #CCSABeachVB Championship" (Press release). Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. April 22, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018 .^ "Conference Record Four #CCSABeachVB Teams Selected for NCAA Championship" (Press release). Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. April 29, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018 .^ "Beach Goes 3-0 in Texas" (Press release). Florida State Seminoles. April 12, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .^ "Florida State Four-Peats as #CCSABeachVB Champions" (Press release). Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. April 21, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
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