Atlantic Sun Conference

The Atlantic Sun Conference (A-Sun) is a collegiate athletic conference operating in the Southeastern United States. The league participates at the NCAA Division I level, and does not sponsor football. Originally established as the Trans America Athletic Conference (TAAC) in 1978, its headquarters are located in Macon, Georgia.

Northern Kentucky University, which is transitioning from NCAA Division II sports to Division I, joined the A-Sun in 2012. The league's newest program replaced Belmont University, which moved to the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC), and maintained the membership roster at 10 schools. The 2014 departure of East Tennessee State University and Mercer University to the Southern Conference left the A-Sun with 8 full members.

Former members

 * Notes:

School names and nicknames listed here reflect those used during the schools' time in the TAAC/A-Sun. One school has changed both its name and nickname, and three others have changed only their nicknames:

Membership timeline

 * Northeast Louisiana became the University of Louisiana at Monroe (Louisiana–Monroe) in 1999.
 * Pan American now brands itself for athletic purposes as UTPA, but media generally refer to the school by its more complete name of Texas–Pan American. In July 2015, UTPA will merge with the University of Texas at Brownsville to create the new University of Texas–Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV); the new school will inherit UTPA's athletic program.

Sports sponsored


The Atlantic Sun Conference sponsors championship competition in eight men's and eleven women's NCAA sanctioned sports. In the 2014–15 school year, four schools are associate members in women's lacrosse: Detroit, Howard, Furman, and Old Dominion.

The most recent change to the roster of A-Sun sports took place after the 2013–14 school year. Under a cooperative agreement between the A-Sun and Southern Conference (SoCon), the two leagues agreed to split lacrosse sponsorship. The SoCon took over the A-Sun men's lacrosse league, while women's lacrosse sponsorship remained with the A-Sun.


 * ‡ = Under a cooperative agreement, starting in 2014-15, men's lacrosse is sponsored by the Southern Conference and women's by the A-Sun.
 * * = Sand volleyball is an NCAA "emerging sport" which is fully sanctioned, but does not yet have a national championship.

All sports championships
The Jesse C. Fletcher and Sherman Day Trophies are awarded each year to the top men's and women's program in the conference. The Bill Bibb Trophy, combining the men's and women's results for the best overall program, was first awarded in 2006-07. East Tennessee State has won this overall trphy seven of the eight years it has been awarded; Florida Gulf Coast won in 2012-13.

Championships

 * Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament
 * Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Tournament
 * Atlantic Sun Conference Women's Basketball Tournament