The Coastal Collegiate Sports Association is an
NCAA
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Division I college athletic conference
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.
Established in 2008, the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) was originally developed by four regional Division I conferences — the
ASUN Conference
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,
Big South Conference
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,
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
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, and the
Southern Conference
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— 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
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Mem ...
(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
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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.
At the same time, Charleston and UNC Wilmington (UNCW) left CCSA beach volleyball for the ASUN.
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. In February 2025, the remaining members of the CCSA announced they would all move their respective beach volleyball programs to the
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
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beginning in the 2026 season (2025-26 academic year), effectively bringing an end to the CCSA after 17 seasons.
The CCSA currently has 4 member schools, representing four states (Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Texas).
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Members
All four remaining members are beach volleyball members.
Former members
Membership timeline
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id:FullBV value:rgb(0.551,0.824,0.777) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member for only Beach Volleyball
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bar:2 color:FullMWS from:2008 till:2013 text:College of Charleston (2008–2013)
bar:2 color:FullBV from:2016 till:2021 text:(2016–2021)
bar:3 color:FullMWS from:2008 till:2014 text:Davidson (2008–2014)
bar:4 color:FullMWS from:2008 till:2011 text:Florida A&M (2008–2011)
bar:5 color:FullWS from:2008 till:2023 text:Florida Gulf Coast (2008–2023)
bar:6 color:FullMWS from:2008 till:2023 text:Gardner-Webb (2008–2023)
bar:7 color:FullWS from:2008 till:2023 text:Georgia Southern (2008–2023)
bar:8 color:FullMWS from:2008 till:2020 text:Howard (2008–2020)
bar:9 color:FullWS from:2008 till:2016 text:North Carolina A&T (2008–2016)
bar:10 color:FullWS from:2008 till:2023 text:North Florida (2008–2023)
bar:11 color:FullWS from:2008 till:2014 text:Radford (2008–2014)
bar:12 color:FullMWS from:2008 till:2017 text:VMI (2008–2017)
bar:13 color:FullWS from:2011 till:2023 text:Liberty (2011–2023)
bar:14 color:FullWS from:2012 till:2023 text:UNC Asheville (2012–2023)
bar:15 color:FullMWS from:2013 till:2022 text:Incarnate Word (2013–2022)
bar:16 color:FullMS from:2013 till:2020 text:NJIT (2013–2020)
bar:17 color:FullMS from:2013 till:2017 text:UMBC (2013–2017)
bar:18 color:FullMS from:2015 till:2022 text:Old Dominion (2015–2023)
bar:18 color:FullMWS from:2022 till:2023 text:
bar:19 color:FullMSBV from:2015 till:2021 text:Florida Atlantic (2015–2023)
bar:19 color:FullMS from:2021 till:2023 text:
bar:20 color:FullBV from:2015 till:2021 text:UAB (2015–2021)
bar:21 color:FullBV from:2015 till:2021 text:FIU (2015–2021)
bar:22 color:FullBV from:2015 till:2025 text:Florida State (2015–2025)
bar:23 color:FullBV from:2015 till:2021 text:Georgia State (2015–2021)
bar:24 color:FullBV from:2015 till:2025 text:LSU (2015–2025)
bar:25 color:FullBV from:2015 till:2025 text:South Carolina (2015–2025)
bar:26 color:FullBV from:2015 till:2022 text:Tulane (2015–2022)
bar:27 color:FullBV from:2016 till:2021 text:UNC Wilmington (2016–2021)
bar:28 color:FullMS from:2017 till:2020 text:Mount St. Mary's (2017–2020)
bar:29 color:FullBV from:2018 till:2021 text:Southern Miss (2018–2021)
bar:30 color:FullBV from:2018 till:2023 text:TCU (2018–2023)
bar:31 color:FullBV from:2019 till:2023 text:Missouri State (2019–2023)
bar:32 color:FullBV from:2019 till:2021 text:ULM (2019–2021)
bar:33 color:FullMWS from:2020 till:2023 text:Bellarmine (2020–2023)
bar:34 color:FullBV from:2022 till:2024 text:Grand Canyon (2022–2024)
bar:35 color:FullMWS from:2022 till:2023 text:Queens (2022–2023)
bar:36 color:FullWS from:2022 till:2023 text:James Madison (2022–2023)
bar:37 color:FullBV from:2024 till:2025 text:Texas (2024–2025)
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Swimming & Diving Champions
Beach Volleyball Champions
References
External links
Official website
{{Coastal Collegiate Sports Association navbox
NCAA Division I conferences
College swimming in the United States