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Coastal Carolina Chanticleers
University	Coastal Carolina University
Conference	Sun Belt (primary) ASUN (women's lacrosse)
NCAA	Division I (FBS)
Athletic director	Chance Miller
Location	Conway, South Carolina
Varsity teams	19 (8 men's, 11 women's)
Football stadium	Brooks Stadium
Basketball arena	HTC Center
Baseball stadium	Springs Brooks Stadium
Softball stadium	St. John Stadium
Soccer stadium	CCU Soccer Complex
Tennis venue	Stevens Tennis Complex
Mascot	Chauncey
Nickname	Chanticleers (Chants)
Fight song	CCU Fight Song
Colors	Teal, bronze, and black[1]
Website	goccusports.com
Team NCAA championships
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TheCoastal Carolina Chanticleers (/ˈʃɒntɪklɪər/,SHON-tih-clear^[2]) are the athletic teams that representCoastal Carolina University. They participate inDivision I of theNCAA as a member of theSun Belt Conference (SBC) in most sports, having joined that conference as a full but non-football member on July 1, 2016. At that time, thefootball team began a transition from the second-level Division IFootball Championship Subdivision (FCS) to the top-levelFootball Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The team played the2016 season as anFCS independent, joined SBC football for the 2017 season, and became full FBS members for 2018 and beyond. A Chanticleer is a proud and fierce rooster.^[3] Before joining the SBC, the Chanticleers had been members of theBig South Conference since that league's formation in 1983. Coastal fieldsvarsity teams in 19 sports, 8 for men and 11 for women. The university regularly competed for theSasser Cup, the Big South's trophy for the university with the best sports program among the member institutions, winning the trophy nine times, tied with rivalLiberty University.

Until the early 1960s, Coastal's teams were known as the Trojans. When the school became an extension of theUniversity of South Carolina, the push was made for a mascot more in line with the parent's mascot, theGamecock; the ultimate choice was theChanticleer, the proud, witty rooster made famous in "The Nun's Priest's Tale" ofChaucer'sThe Canterbury Tales (the mascot itself would be named Zachary). When Coastal became an independent university in 1993, despite some calls to change the mascot as part of "a complete split from USC", the Chanticleer remained the school's mascot.^[4] Coastal has developed in-state rivalries with Charleston Southern, Clemson, College of Charleston, Furman, Presbyterian, South Carolina, South Carolina State, The Citadel, USC Upstate, Winthrop, and Wofford. Their fiercest in-state rivals areCharleston Southern,College of Charleston, andWinthrop. Coastal has rivalries with every Sun Belt school in the East Division (Appalachian State, Georgia State, Georgia Southern, South Alabama, and Troy). Coastal's main Sun Belt rivals areAppalachian State andGeorgia Southern. They also have a rivalry withLiberty that dates back to when both universities were members of theBig South Conference.

The volleyball program is one of the most successful teams in the country. It won four consecutive conference championships (Big South 2014, 2015) (Sun Belt 2016, 2017). Leah Hardeman ('14–'17) is the only player in Division I history to win four conference player of the year awards. The baseball team has developed into a national powerhouse as well; it won the national title in 2016.

As of the 2022–23 school year, the SBC sponsors all of Coastal's sports except women's lacrosse, which plays in theASUN Conference. The SBC reinstated men's soccer (a fall sport) for the 2022 season, and added beach volleyball (a spring sport) for the 2023 season.

• Big South Conference (1983–2016)
• Sun Belt Conference (2016–present)

Coastal Carolina's baseball program has been the university's most consistent program in terms of success. The program has received #1 regional seeds on four occasions (2005, 2007, 2008, 2010) and won 50+ games in 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2010. In addition, the Chanticleers have hosted NCAA Regionals in 2007, 2008, and 2010 and a Super Regional in 2010. In 2016, the Chanticleers defeated the Arizona Wildcats two games to one in the best of three national championship series to win the first ever national title in school history. It was also the first national title ever won by a Big South Conference member in a team sport, and came the day before Coastal joined the Sun Belt.

The Coastal Carolina men's basketball program is coached byJustin Gray, who has also served as head coach atWestern Carolina University. The program achieved the majority of its success during the early 1990s, reaching theNCAA tournament in 1991 and 1993. The 2009–10 CCU Basketball team set a school record for most wins in a season while finishing with a record of 28 wins and 6 losses. After losing to Winthrop at home in the conference championship game, the team suffered a 65–49 loss atUAB in the first round of the2010 NIT. The 2010–11 CCU Basketball team would also finish with a 28–6 record, at one time winning 22 consecutive games. The team lost to UNC Asheville in the conference championship game 60–47. Coastal went on to lose to Alabama in the first round of the 2011NIT. Coastal returned to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 21 years in 2014, after defeating rival Winthrop in the championship game of the Big South Tournament, but losing to first-seed Virginia in their only game of the tournament. In 2015, Coastal Carolina again returned to the NCAA tournament after beating Winthrop, for the second year in a row, in the Big South Conference championship game 70–81.^[5] This is the first time in school history Coastal has made back-to-back appearances in the tournament.

Coastal Carolina's football program played its inaugural season in 2003. The team is coached byTim Beck, head coach since the 2023 season. In the program's short history, wins have already been recorded over traditionalFootball Championship Subdivision powers such asJames Madison University (ranked #1 at the time),Furman University andWofford College. The school's highest-profile win to date came in2020 in amuch-publicized game againstBYU. The program won sevenBig South Conference championships before officially joiningSun Belt Conference football on July 1, 2017.

The Coastal Carolina's men's golf program is led by head coach Jim Garren who was hired on July 20, 2017. Historically, the program has performed well on the national level. The 2004–05 team broke onto the national scene by finishing the regular season ranked sixth in the NCAA's South region. Coastal would go on to finish eighth at the NCAA East Regional that season and moved on to the NCAA Championship where the team finished 20th.^{[citation needed]}

The program has continued to build on its success in recent years. In 2005–06, the Chanticleers finished 16th at the NCAA Championships, and finished the 2006–07 season ranked seventh in the nation and finished fifth at the NCAA Championships. The 2007–08 team struggled with the loss of All-AmericanDustin Johnson, finishing 22nd in the NCAA East Regional. Johnson would finish his collegiate career as a three-time All-American, and has since moved onto thePGA Tour and won his firstmajor championship in2016, as well as the 2020 Masters.^{[citation needed]}

The Coastal Carolina men's soccer program is coached by Shaun Docking. The Chanticleers have reached the NCAA Tournament on seven occasions and are nine-timeBig South Conference Tournament Champions and two-timeSun Belt Conference Tournament Champions. A number of the program's former players have moved on to play professionally such asJoseph Ngwenya,Kheli Dube,Mubarike Chisoni,Jordan Hughes,Tyler Hughes, Boyzzz Khumalo andStu Riddle, among others.

The Chanticleers joinedConference USA for men's soccer in July 2021 following the demise of the Sun Belt men's soccer league.^[6] However,later conference realignment led to the reinstatement of SBC men's soccer for the 2022 season, and Coastal returned men's soccer to its full-time home.^[7]

In 2013,TD Bank gave CCU a $5 million gift. In September 2014, CCU officially renamed all its sports facilities "TD Sports Complex".^[8] It includes:

Spring Brooks

Brooks Stadium stand

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