The Colonial Athletic Association has changed its name to the Coastal Athletic Association.
The school association, located in nine states along the Atlantic coast, announced the change Thursday to reflect its recent expansion, with members stretching from Massachusetts to South Carolina. The league will still be called the CAA and will continue to use the same conference logo.
“Our new name reflects the continuity and unity of the conference, as well as each organization’s commitment to being United in Excellence,” CAA Commissioner Joe D’Antonio said in a statement.
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Entertainment & Sports Arena in Washington DC on March 6, 2022. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
In the past two years, CAA has added five new members to push its membership to 14 institutions, the most in its nearly 40-year history. Hampton, Monmouth, North Carolina A&T and Stony Brook are on board for the 2022-23 school year, and Campbell joined this year. James Madison left last year to join the Sun Belt and play high-level football (FBS).
Other schools in the association are College of Charleston, Delaware, Drexel, Elon, Hofstra, North Carolina-Wilmington, Northeastern, Towson and William & Mary.
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Delaware places its logo on the winning line of the tournament banner after winning the championship game against Drexel in the Colonial Athletic Association Conference NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 13, 2022, in Philadelphia. The Colonial Athletic Association has changed its name to the Coastal Athletic Association. The association of schools located in nine states along the Atlantic coast announced a name change on Thursday, July 20, 2023 to reflect its recent expansion, with members stretching from Massachusetts to South Carolina. (AP Photo/Chris Zagula, File)
CAA has produced 18 national team champions and 33 individual national champions in five different sports.
The name change will lead to the league’s football conference, which will be called the Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference but will continue to be called the CAA Football Conference. It has 15 members in 10 states from Maine to North Carolina.
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The CAA Conference Tournament logo before the Colonial Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Championship Tournament on March 7, 2020 at the Recreation and Sports Arena in Washington, DC. (Gregory Fisher/ICON Sportswire via Getty Images)
Also in the league are Albany (NY), Maine-Orono, New Hampshire, Richmond, Villanova, Delaware, Elon, Hampton, Monmouth (NJ), Rhode Island, Stony Brook, Towson and William & Mary.
Twelve of the CAA’s current 15 football members have made the playoffs since 2015, and the league has had multiple teams in the FCS playoffs for the past 31 years.
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