The Coastal Athletic Association (CAA), formerly the ECAC South Conference and the Colonial Athletic Association, is a collegiate

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affiliated with the

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's Division I whose full members are located in East Coast states, from

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. Most of its members are

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, and the conference is headquartered in

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. The CAA was historically a Southern conference until the addition of four schools in the

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(of five that joined from rival conference

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) after the turn of the 21st century, which added geographic balance to the conference. The CAA was founded in 1979 as the ECAC South Conference, made up of

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which played

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in the

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's South Region Division I men's basketball tournament. During its first two seasons, its members continued to play basketball as independents during the regular season and take part in the ECAC's South Region tournament for independents, but it began conference play in basketball in the 1981–1982 season. It was renamed the Colonial Athletic Association in 1985 when it added championships in other sports (although a number of members maintain ECAC affiliation in some sports). As of 2006, it organizes championships in 21 men's and women's sports. The addition of

Northeastern University Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association in 1898 as an all-male instit ...

in 2005 gave the conference the NCAA minimum of six football programs needed to sponsor

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. For the 2007 football season, all of the

Atlantic 10 Conference The Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference whose schools compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I. The A-10's member schools are located most ...

's football programs joined the CAA football conference, as agreed in May 2005. The football league operates under CAA administration as the legally separate entity of CAA Football. The most recent changes to the conference membership took place in 2022 and 2023. First,

Hampton University Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missiona ...

Monmouth University Monmouth University is a private university in West Long Branch, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1933 as Monmouth Junior College, it became Monmouth College in 1956 and Monmouth University in 1995 after receiving its university charter, c ...

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, and

Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public university, public research university in Stony Brook, New York, United States, on Long Island. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is on ...

joined in 2022. Stony Brook, already a member of CAA Football, joined in other sports at that time; Hampton and Monmouth joined both the all-sports CAA and CAA Football; and NC A&T joined the all-sports CAA in 2022 and joined CAA Football in 2023. This was followed by

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joining both sides of the league in 2023. The conference renamed itself the Coastal Athletic Association in 2023.

History

The CAA has expanded in recent years, following the exits of longtime members such as the

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, the

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, and

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. In 2001, the six-member conference added four additional universities:

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, and the

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. Four years later the league expanded again when

Georgia State University Georgia State University (Georgia State, State, or GSU) is a Public university, public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1913, it is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities. It is al ...

and

joined, further enlarging the conference footprint.

Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a Public university, public research university in Richmond, Virginia, United States. VCU was founded in 1838 as the medical department of Hampden–Sydney College, becoming the Medical College of Virgin ...

(VCU) left for the

in July 2012. More changes came in 2013:

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left for

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, Georgia State joined the

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, and the

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joined the CAA from the

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. On the playing field, the CAA has produced 16 national team champions in six different sports (the most recent being the James Madison University Dukes who won the 2018 Division I Women's Lacrosse championship), 33 individual national champions, 11 national coaches of the year, 11 national players of the year and 12

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winners. In 2006,

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became the first CAA team to reach the

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. In 2011, the

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became the second CAA team to reach the Final Four, as well as the first team to win five games en route, due to their participation in the First Four round. On March 25, 2013, George Mason University left the CAA to join the Atlantic 10 Conference. Shortly after, the CAA ceased sponsorship of wrestling due to the lack of teams. The 2015–16 basketball season saw the conference RPI reach its highest rating when it finished the season ranked 9th in the nation. During another phase of realignment that started in 2021, the CAA was affected when longtime member

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announced it would leave the CAA, transition its football program to the

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, and join the

(SBC). Initially, JMU was to join the SBC in July 2023. However, the timeline changed when the CAA chose to ban JMU from subsequent championship events, citing a conference bylaw that allows it to impose such a ban on a departing member. Thus, JMU officially joined the Sun Belt in July 2022 instead (at which time it was counted as an FBS member for scheduling purposes after meeting an NCAA minimum requirement of five FBS opponents at home), housing all of its sports in that league, including men's soccer, which would be sponsored by the SBC again, but one season earlier. Shortly before JMU announced its departure, it was reported that the CAA sought to expand by several schools, allowing it to split into a divisional format for most of its sports in order to reduce travel costs for its members. Among the schools named as possible candidates were

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, and the

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. In January 2022, reports emerged that

, a historically black institution that had been working toward a CAA move since at least 1995, would likely join the CAA that July. Monmouth was again named as a potential CAA expansion candidate. Also,

, already a member of CAA Football, was named as a candidate for membership in the all-sports CAA. On January 18, local media in Monmouth's home of New Jersey reported that a CAA invitation to that school was imminent. The CAA later announced on January 25 that Hampton, Monmouth, and Stony Brook would become members of the all-sports CAA that July, with Hampton and Monmouth joining Stony Brook in CAA Football. On February 22, the CAA announced that

would join the all-sports CAA that July and CAA Football in 2023. Still later,

was announced as a new member of both sides of the league effective in 2023. On July 20, 2023, the Colonial Athletic Association rebranded as the Coastal Athletic Association, citing the expansion of the conference footprint throughout the east coast for the change in name; however, the current logo was unchanged. On November 28, 2023, Delaware announced its departure from the CAA and transition to the

(FBS) joining

on July 1, 2025.

Commissioners

Member schools

Full members

Current full members

;Notes:

Former full members

;Notes

Associate members

In all tables below, dates of joining and departure reflect the calendar years these moves took effect. For spring sports, the year of arrival is the calendar year before the first season of competition. For fall sports, the year of departure is the calendar year after the final season of competition.

Current associate members

;Notes:

Former associate members

;Notes:

Membership timeline

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Sports

The CAA sponsors championship competitions in ten men's and thirteen women's NCAA sanctioned sports. Eleven schools are associate members in three sports. This does not include football, administered by the CAA through the separate entity of CAA Football.

Men's sponsored sports by school

;Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the CAA which are played by CAA schools ;Notes

Women's sponsored sports by school

;Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the CAA which are played by CAA schools ;Notes In addition to the above, Charleston counts its female cheerleaders (though not its male cheerleaders) and all-female dance team as varsity teams. Neither cheerleading nor dance team competitions are sponsored by the NCAA.

Current champions

RS = regular-season champion; T = tournament champion

Men's basketball

Regular season champions

Note: The conference was known as the ECAC South from 1979 to 1985.

History of the tournament final

Men's CAA tournament championships and finalists

^‡Former member of the CAA

Broadcasters

Women's basketball

Regular season champions

History of the tournament finals

Women's CAA tournament championships and finalists

^‡Former member of the CAA

Football

Men's soccer

Regular season champions

Note: The conference was known as the ECAC South from 1983 to 1985. List of CAA regular season champions.

All-time conference championships

Note: In the 2020–21 season, impacted by COVID-10, the CAA split into North and South Divisions, with conference play solely within each division, for that season only. No champion is included for this season.

Facilities

Departing member indicated in pink.

References

External links

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