Sports in South Carolina

If you're searching for a place to hold a professional, amateur or collegiate sporting event, look no further. Play here. South Carolina is just right. We're just right for soccer games, baseball tournaments, golf championships and tennis playoffs. And let's not forget about football, basketball, volleyball, 5K walks and runs and fishing tournaments.

Our small towns, coastal cities and inland areas offer a diverse landscape for indoor and outdoor sports in South Carolina. With award-winning restaurants, affordable accommodations and plenty of fun attractions to keep athletes, their families and spectators busy, you'll score big in South Carolina.

Sporting Events

South Carolina is home to a diverse and expansive list of sports venues and locations that can host hundreds of touraments.  With our indoor venues, South Carolina destinations can host basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, swimming, cornhole, cheer, dance and archery, to name a few.  The outdoor venues in South Carolina are unmatched in the Southeast and have successfully hosted track & field, road races, football, baseball, soccer, tennis and ultimate frisbee.  And let's not forget about our lakes.  South Carolina is home to the best bass fishing lakes in the country and regularly host some of the top fishing tournaments in the country.  You would be hard pressed to find a destination more dedicated to championship golf than South Carolina.  With hundreds of championship courses, South Carolina is home to an annual PGA Tour event, regularly hosts other USGA and PGA championships, NCAA events and the largest amateur event in the world. 

South Carolina Sports Alliance (SCSA) - Just Right for Champions

The SCSA is South Carolina's statewide sports collaborative initiative to promote South Carolina as a premier sports destination in the United States. South Carolina is home to destinations and venues that understnad and focus on sports tourism.  promote and support sporting events coming to South Carolina. These organizations lead our statewide recuiting  efforts to promote and support sporting events coming to South Carolina .  The SCSA is compromised of CVB's, sports commissions, parks and recreation departments, statewide tourism regions, venues,  major attractions and event owners who all share the common goal of creating an atmosphere where your sporting event can achieve the utmost success.

The South Carolina Sports Alliance is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote and develop the continued success of the sports industry of South Carolina. SCSA's primary goal is the growth and enhancement of the sports economy in the state South Carolina and its local communities. The SCSA will provide a forum for sports and all related hospitality industry constituents that actively bring forth ideas and solutions to develop sports tourism for the state. The SCSA also provides an opportunity for the exchange of information as a continuing education process. In these education settings SCSA members will benefit through idea sharing, industry trends, creative alternatives, retention, coordination, and the overall production of sports-related facilities, and the entire event that surrounds it.

SCSA Partners

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Our South Carolina Association partners are ready to help you find a location to host your next sports event.

• City of Aiken
• Visit Anderson
• Visit Beaufort, Port Royal & Sea Islands
• Visit Camden/Kershaw County
• Carowinds
• Charleston Area Sports Commission
• Visit Clemson
• Experience Columbia SC Sports
• City of Conway
• City of Easley
• Florence CVB
• Greenville County Parks, Recreation & Tourism
• VisitGreenvilleSC
• Discover Greenwood
• Hartsville Tourism
• Hilton Head Island - Bluffton, CofC, VCB
• Irmo-Chapin Recreation Commission
• Myrtle Beach Regional Sports Alliance
• Myrtle Beach Sports Center
• City of Myrtle Beach
• North Myrtle Beach PRT
• Visit Oconee SC
• City of Rock Hill PRT
• City of Seneca PRT
• Spartanburg Convention & Visitors Bureau
• City of Sumter
• Experience Union County
• Visit York County

South Carolina Sports Venues

Ready to find a winning combination of a great place to visit and a great place to play?  Visit our SCSA PlayEasy profile to learn more about the wide range of South Carolina sports tourism venues.

Vacation Guide

Discover the ins-and-outs of South Carolina Culture, attractions, lodging, dining and more with the official
South Carolina Vacation Guide.

For more information:

Phil Shirley
President - Visit Oconee SC
ken@oconeesc.com

Neil Paul
Executive Director - Visit Anderson
neil@visitanderson.com

Wes J. T. Kitashima
Treasurer - Beaufort Area Sports Council
sports@beaufortsc.org

Jade Perkins
Secretary - Florence
jade.perkins@visitflo.com

Johnathan Paris
Executive Director of Sports Tourism - Visit Myrtle Beach
Jonathan.paris@visitmyrtlebeach.com

Kathleen Cartland
Executive Director, Charleston Area Sports Commission
kcartland@explorecharleston.com

Tim Huber
Sports Tourism Division Supervisor - City of Myrtle Beach Sports Tourism
thuber@cityofmyrtlebeach.com

Jenny Parrish
Executive Director - Olde English District
jenny@oldenglishdistrict.com

Brian Jones
Sports and Event Center Division Supervisor - Rock Hill Parks, Recreation & Tourism
Brian.Jones@cityofrockhill.com

Download The SCSA Membership Application and Benefits