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Coastal Carolina University was founded in 1954 as Coastal Carolina Junior College, a two-year community college established by the Coastal Educational Foundation. It became an independent state university on the 1st of July 1993, when Governor Carroll Campbell signed the bill into law.
Coastal Carolina University won its first NCAA national title in baseball at the 2016 College World Series in Omaha. The Chanticleers defeated the University of Arizona in the deciding game 4-3 in a best-of-three final series.
The mascot is the Chanticleer, a proud rooster made famous in "The Nun's Priest's Tale" of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The name is pronounced SHON-ti-clear, the teams are nicknamed the Chants (pronounced "shonts"), and the live mascot rooster is named Maddox.
Waties Island is an Atlantic barrier island that CCU owns in part. The university uses it as a natural laboratory for instruction and research, supporting its status as a national sea-grant institution and its programs in coastal and marine science.
Coastal Carolina's athletic programs compete in the Sun Belt Conference. Most sports joined on the 1st of July 2016, after leaving the Big South Conference, with football transitioning to the Sun Belt and to Football Bowl Subdivision play in 2017.
James J. Winebrake became the fourth president of Coastal Carolina University on the 7th of July 2025. He succeeded Michael T. Benson, who had served as president since the 1st of January 2021.