Coastal Carolina Chanticleers baseball

Coastal Carolina Chanticleers
2024 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers baseball team
Founded1963
UniversityCoastal Carolina University
Head coachKevin Schnall (1st season)
ConferenceSun Belt
East Division
LocationConway, South Carolina
Home stadiumSprings Brooks Stadium
(Capacity: 5,400)
NicknameChanticleers
ColorsTeal, bronze, and black[1]
     
NCAA Tournament champions
2016
College World Series appearances
2016
NCAA regional champions
2008, 2010, 2016
NCAA Tournament appearances
1991, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024
Conference tournament champions
Big South: 1986, 1991, 1992, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016
Sun Belt: 2018, 2019
Regular season conference champions
Big South: 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016
Sun Belt: 2017, 2018, 2023

The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers baseball program has been the university's most consistent program in terms of success. Former Head Coach Gary Gilmore (1,118–597–3 at CCU, 1,371–699–5 overall) led the Chanticleers to 19 NCAA Regional appearances and three Super Regional appearances since being hired in 1996. The program has hosted a regional after being a #1 seed on six occasions (2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2018, 2023). They have won 50+ games in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2016. The program hosted a Super Regional in 2010 and won the 2016 College World Series.

Future Chicago White Sox major league pitcher Brad Goldberg played for the team in 2009-10, making 18 appearances (17 in relief) in those two seasons.[2]

In 2010 Coastal went 29-0 in Big South play, winning both the regular season Big South Championship and the Big South Tournament Championship plus the Regional, but lost in the Super Regionals 2-0 to the University of South Carolina.

In 2016, Coastal went 21-3 in Big South play, winning the regular season Conference Championship and the Conference Tournament. In the 2016 post-season, Coastal won the Raleigh Regional by beating the NC State Wolfpack 2-1. The Chanticleers went on to beat the LSU Tigers 2-0 in the Baton Rouge Super Regionals, and ultimately got to the 2016 CWS Final and defeated Arizona two games to one to win the National Championship. The title game finished mere hours before Coastal officially left the Big South Conference, the school's home since 1983 (1984 baseball season), for the Sun Belt Conference. The state's governor Nikki Haley proclaimed July 1, 2016, the day after the title game and also Coastal's first official day as a Sun Belt member, "Chanticleer Baseball National Championship Day" throughout South Carolina.

Historically, Coastal's primary baseball rivals have been Winthrop, Liberty, and Charleston.

  1. ^ "Coastal Carolina University Graphic Standards" (PDF). Retrieved March 31, 2016.
  2. ^ "Brad Goldberg Baseball Statistics [2009-2016]", the Baseball Cube