Coastal Carolina’s athletic programs are critical components of institutional engagement with every constituency of the University. The academic achievement of the student-athletes combined with their extraordinary vitality and loyalty to Coastal Carolina make them role models for current and future students.

On the playing field, Coastal Carolina student-athletes have made exceptional strides, earning 35 NCAA Championship appearances since 1989. In the last academic year, the men’s soccer team tied for first place in the NCAA Division I with an overall GPA of 3.31, and seven students earned national academic honors.

Coastal Carolina football has initiated a remarkable tradition of developing and invigorating a social culture joining the campus and the community. As Coastal Carolina intercollegiate football becomes a tradition, there will be an exponential increase in producing long-lived and spirited attachments to the University involving enrolled students, alumni and our community.

Coastal Carolina’s impressive new Brooks Stadium is named for local businessman Bob Brooks, whose $2 million contribution represents the largest single gift in the history of the institution. Named in honor of Brooks’ family, the stadium was dedicated Sept. 6 during Coastal’s first football game. Brooks’ contribution represents the largest single gift the university has received to date. Phase I of the stadium construction has 6,408 seats.

The stadium will be a work in progress, designed to grow with the program, with a possible future seating capacity of up to 20,000 seats. The Athletics Initiative includes completion of the Brooks Stadium, construction of the Buddy Sasser Hall of Fame, and extensive improvements to Charles L. Watson Baseball Stadium and Vrooman Field.