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{{Update|date=July 2025}}{{Short description|Public university in Vallejo, California}}
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{{Infobox university
 | name                   = Cal Poly Maritime
 | type                   = [[Public university|Public]] [[List of maritime colleges|maritime college]]
 | parent                 = [[California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo]]
 | accreditation          = [[WASC Senior College and University Commission|WSCUC]]
 | image                  = CSU Maritime Academy seal.svg
 | image_upright          = .65
 | motto                  = ''Laborare Pugnare Parati Sumus'' ([[Latin]])
 | mottoeng               = "To work, to fight, we are ready"<ref name=About>{{cite web |url=https://www.csum.edu/web/onboarding/home/campus-facts |title=Campus Facts |publisher=California State University Maritime Academy |access-date=December 25, 2019}}</ref>
 | established            = {{start date and age|1929}}<ref>[http://www.edumaritime.net/more/blog/1355-cal-maritime-vallejo-campus-tour Vallejo Campus Tour]</ref>
 | endowment              = $19.2 million (2020)<ref>As of June 30, 2024. {{Cite web |title=Public NCSE Tables |url=https://www.nacubo.org/Research/2024/Public-NCSE-Tables |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=www.nacubo.org}}</ref>
 | president              = [[Michael J. Dumont]]
 | provost                = Lori Schroeder<ref>{{cite news |last1=Glidden |first1=John |title=Cal Maritime University appoints new provost |url=https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2020/06/08/cal-maritime-appoints-new-provost/ |access-date=25 November 2020 |work=Vallejo Times-Herald |date=8 June 2020}}</ref>
 | city                   = [[Vallejo, California|Vallejo]]
 | state                  = California
 | country                = United States
 | students               = 804 (fall 2024)<ref name=Enrollment>{{cite web |url=http://asd.calstate.edu/dashboard/enrollment-live.html |title=Fall Term Student Enrollment |publisher=The California State University Institutional Research and Analyses |access-date=November 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202230848/http://asd.calstate.edu/dashboard/enrollment-live.html |archive-date=December 2, 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 | undergrad              = 793 (fall 2024)<ref name=Enrollment/>
 | postgrad               = 11 (fall 2024)<ref name=Enrollment/>
 | faculty                = 
 | campus                 = Midsize city<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Maritime&s=all&id=111188|title=IPEDS-California State University Maritime Academy}}</ref>
 | campus_size            = {{convert|92|acre|ha}}<ref name=About/>
 | former_names           = California Nautical School<br>(1929–1939)<br />California Maritime Academy<br>(1939–2015)<br />California State University Maritime Academy<br>(2015–2025)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.csum.edu/web/support/new-name |title=California Maritime Academy Officially Renamed as California State University Maritime Academy |publisher=California State University Maritime Academy |date=September 9, 2015}}</ref>
 | sporting_affiliations  = [[National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics|NAIA]] – [[California Pacific Conference|Cal Pac]]
 | sports_nickname        = Keelhaulers<ref name=About/>
 | mascot                 = Keelhaulers<ref name=About/>
 | colors                 = Navy and gold<ref name=About/><br>{{color box|#00447c}}&nbsp;{{color box|#e7d741}}
 | academic_affiliations  = 
 | logo                   = CSU Maritime Academy logo.svg
 | logo_size              = upright=0.9
 | footnotes              = 
 | website                = {{URL|maritime.calpoly.edu/}}
}}

The '''California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Maritime Academy''' ('''Cal Poly Maritime''') is a [[List of maritime colleges#United States|maritime academy]] branch campus of [[California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo]] in [[Vallejo, California]].<ref>{{cite web |title=California Maritime Academy - Marine Transportation, Logistics & Engineering Education |url=https://www.edumaritime.net/california/california-maritime-academy-vallejo |access-date=October 24, 2018}}</ref> Founded in 1929, it operated as a [[public university]] in the [[California State University]] system until it was absorbed on July 1, 2025.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2024-11-21 |title=CSU Board of Trustees Approves Cal Maritime and Cal Poly Integration {{!}} Cal Poly |url=https://www.calpoly.edu/news/csu-board-trustees-approves-cal-maritime-and-cal-poly-integration |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=www.calpoly.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Unglesbee |first=Ben |date=November 22, 2024 |title=Cal Maritime and Cal Poly set to merge |url=https://www.highereddive.com/news/cal-maritime-cal-poly-merger-California-State-University-Academy-Polytechnic/733794/ |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=Higher Ed Dive |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Zinshteyn |first=Mikhail |last2=Garza |first2=Jeremy |date=2024-11-20 |title=Cal State is trying to save its smallest campus by merging it with Cal Poly |url=https://calmatters.org/education/2024/11/cal-maritime-cal-poly-merger/ |access-date=2025-01-29 |work=CalMatters |language=en-US}}</ref>

==History==
{{more citations needed section|date=January 2013}}
The '''California Nautical School''' was established in 1929, when California State Assembly Bill No. 253 was signed into law by Governor [[C. C. Young]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Peterson |first=Douglas |date=August 1, 2004 |title=The California Maritime Academy A Campus of The California State University: A BRIEF HISTORY |url=https://www.csum.edu/about/media/cal-maritime-history-75th-anniversary.pdf |access-date=April 8, 2024 |website=The California Maritime Academy A Campus of The California State University}}</ref>  The bill authorized the creation of the school, the appointment of a board of governors to manage the school and the acquisition of a training vessel.  The school's mission was "to give practical and theoretical instruction in navigation, seamanship, steam engines, gas engines, and electricity in order to prepare young men to serve as officers in the American Merchant Marine." By 1930, a training vessel and a school site was acquired; the original site was in [[Tiburon, California|Tiburon]] in the [[San Francisco Bay Area]].

Due to the [[Great Depression]], the early days of the school were full of financial uncertainty. As early as 1933, some state legislators were calling for the school's abolition. To save money, cadets and instructors alike lived and held classes aboard the training vessel, the T.S. ''California State''. Only after the passage of the [[Merchant Marine Act of 1936]] did the funding for the school stabilize.
[[File:TS Golden Bear.JPG|thumb|TS ''[[Golden Bear (ship)|Golden Bear]]'' after it was hauled out and painted a navy blue.]]
[[File:Cal Maritime Academy.jpg|thumb|Golden Bear and campus, viewed from across the Carquinez Strait]]

In 1939 the California Nautical School adopted the name, the '''California Maritime Academy'''.  By 1940, the academy was granting Bachelor of Science degrees and Naval Reserve commissions to its graduates; this step marked the beginning of the transition from the status of trade school to college. In 1943, the academy moved to its present location in [[Vallejo, California]].

In the 1970s, after surviving another round of budget cuts and calls for the academy's abolition, California Maritime Academy became a four-year institution. The 1970s also marked the time when the first minority and female cadets graduated from California Maritime Academy.

In 1995, California Maritime Academy became the twenty-second campus of the [[California State University]] system.<ref name=About/>  The new affiliation improved the academy's funding prospects considerably. The current training vessel is the [[Golden Bear (ship)|T.S. ''Golden Bear III'']]; it is the third training ship to carry that name.

In September 2015, the California State University Board of Trustees approved a new name, the '''California State University Maritime Academy'''.<ref>{{Cite web|title = CSUM {{!}} Support » New Name|url = http://www.csum.edu/web/support/new-name|website = csum.edu|access-date = 2015-12-08|archive-date = December 8, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151208211247/http://www.csum.edu/web/support/new-name|url-status = dead}}</ref>

In 2024, the California State University system voted to integrate the university with [[California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo]], citing significant financial challenges and a 31% decline in enrollment over the past seven years at Cal Maritime.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CSU Recommends Integrating Cal Maritime and Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo {{!}} CSU |url=https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/cal-poly-maritime-integration.aspx |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=www.calstate.edu |language=en-US}}</ref> The integration took place in July 2025, and the land-based part of the school was renamed "'''Cal Poly, Solano Campus'''" and the sea-based school was renamed "'''Cal Poly Maritime Academy'''".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Orozco |first=Lance |date=2024-06-08 |title=Anchors aweigh? Financially struggling maritime academy may be integrated with Cal Poly SLO |url=https://www.kclu.org/local-news/2024-06-07/anchors-aweigh-financially-struggling-maritime-academy-may-be-integrated-with-cal-poly-slo |access-date=2024-06-08 |work=KCLU |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-11-21 |title=CSU Board of Trustees Approves Cal Maritime and Cal Poly Integration {{!}} Cal Poly |url=https://www.calpoly.edu/news/csu-board-trustees-approves-cal-maritime-and-cal-poly-integration |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=calpoly.edu |language=en}}</ref>

===Superintendents and presidents===
[[File:Flag of a United States Navy rear admiral.svg|thumbnail|right|A rear admiral's flag]]
Since the passage of the [[Merchant Marine Act of 1970]], the position of President of the Cal Maritime is commissioned as a [[Rear admiral (United States)|Rear Admiral (Upper Half)]] in the [[United States Maritime Service]].  Two past presidents are alumni of the academy.
{| class="wikitable non-sortable"
|-
!From
!To
!Name
!Rank
!Notes
|-
|May 11, 1930
|February 14, 1934
|Emil Topp
|LCDR, USN (ret)
|
|-
|February 15, 1934
|June 30, 1937
|Richard C. Dwyer
|
|''See Note 1''
|-
|July 1, 1937
|June 30, 1940
|Neil E. Nichols
|CAPT, USN (ret)
|
|-
|July 1, 1940
|October 31, 1947
|Claude B. Mayo
|CAPT, USN (ret)
|''See Note 2''
|-
|November 1, 1947
|February 15, 1955
|Russel M. Ihreg
|COMMO, USN (ret)
|
|-
|February 16, 1955
|June 20, 1955
|Carroll T. Bonney
|CAPT, USN (ret)
|Acting Superintendent
|-
|June 21, 1955
|November 1, 1965
|Henry E. Richter
|CAPT, USN (ret)
|
|-
|October 15, 1965
|October 1, 1971
|Francis T. Williamson
|RADM, USN (ret)
|
|-
|October 1, 1971
|August 1, 1972
|Edwin C. Miller
|CDR, USN (ret)
|'34-D CMA, Interim ''See Note 3'', 
|-
|August 2, 1972
|November 11, 1983
|Joseph P. Rizza
|RADM, USMS
|CAPT, USN (ret), ''See Note 4''
|-
|November 11, 1983
|August 31, 1990
|John J. Ekelund
|RADM, USMS
|RADM, USN (ret)
|-
|August 31, 1990
|June 30, 1996
|Mary E. Lyons
|RADM, USMS
|CDR, USNR
|-
|July 1, 1996
|June 30, 2001
|Jerry A. Aspland
|RADM, USMS
|'62-D CMA
|-
|July 1, 2001
|June 30, 2012
|William B. Eisenhardt
|RADM, USMS<ref>Douglas Peterson. (2004). A Brief History: The California Maritime Academy Historical Archives. Retrieved July 29, 2014, from {{cite web |url=https://www.csum.edu/web/about/history |title=CSUM &#124; About » History |access-date=2014-07-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140730014054/https://www.csum.edu/web/about/history |archive-date=July 30, 2014 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
| Unk, USN
|-
|July 1, 2012
|June 30, 2023
|[[Thomas A. Cropper]]
|RADM, USMS<ref>[http://www.csum.edu/web/about/administration/president/profile Cal Maritime Administration (accessed July 17, 2012)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929234811/https://www.csum.edu/web/about/administration/president/profile |date=September 29, 2011 }}</ref>
|RDML, USN (ret)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.csum.edu/president/biography.html|title=Biography}}</ref>
|}

#Dwyer replaced by Nichols due to Navy requirements for regular Navy officers to be in charge of Navy-owned ships
#During WWII, Superintendent and Master became separate positions
#Edwin C. Miller appointed Interim Superintendent October 1971 – July 1972
#On February 27, 1975, the title of "Superintendent" was changed to "President"

===Training ships===
{{Main|Golden Bear (ship)}}
{| class="wikitable non-sortable"
|-
!From
!To
!Name
!Former name
|-
|1931
|1946
|T. S. California State/ T. S. Golden State
|{{USS|Henry County|IX-34}}
|-
|1946
|1971
|T. S. Golden Bear
|{{USS|Mellena|AKA-32}}
|-
|1971
|1995
|T. S. Golden Bear II
|{{USS|Crescent City|APA-21}}
|-
|1996
|Present
|[[Golden Bear (ship)|T. S. Golden Bear III]]
|{{USNS|Maury|T-AGS-39}}
|-
|''2026''
|
|''[[National Security Multi-Mission Vessel|NSMV V]] (temporary name)''
|
|}

==Academics==
{{Infobox US university ranking
| Wamo_BAC = 1
| USNWR_REG = 2
}}
{|class="wikitable floatright" style="width: 22em;"
|+2023–2024 USNWR Best Regional Colleges West Rankings<ref name=USNWR>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/california-state-university-maritime-academy-1134/overall-rankings |title=California State University - Maritime Academy Rankings |access-date=2020-09-24 |magazine=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref>
|-
| Top [[Public university|Public Schools]]
| 1
|-
| Top Performers on [[Social Mobility]]
| 15
|-
| Best [[Undergraduate]] [[Engineering]] Programs
| 58 (At schools where doctorate not offered)
|}

Cal Maritime academic programs are tied to a nautical curriculum. An undergraduate [[Oceanography]] major was added in fall 2020. As of fall 2018 CSU Maritime had the largest enrollment percentage of [[Pacific Islander]] Americans and Multiracial Americans.<ref name="Ethnicity Enrollment Profile">{{Cite web|url=https://www.calstate.edu/as/stat_reports/2018-2019/feth02.htm|title=Ethnicity Enrollment Profile|website=calstate.edu|access-date=2019-07-09|archive-date=October 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191025201228/https://www.calstate.edu/as/stat_reports/2018-2019/feth02.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Rankings===

''[[Money (magazine)|Money]]'' magazine ranked Cal Maritime 15th in the country for value out of 623 schools it evaluated for its 2022 Best Colleges in America ranking.<ref>{{cite web |date=May 16, 2022 |title=The Best Colleges in America 2022 |url=https://money.com/best-colleges/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527192010/https://money.com/best-colleges/ |archive-date=May 27, 2022 |access-date=January 8, 2019 |work=[[Money.com]] |page=https://money.com/best-colleges/profile/california-state-university-maritime-academy/}}</ref>

In 2019 ''[[Forbes]]'' ranked Cal Maritime as the 309th top college in the nation and 64th in the West.<ref>{{cite web |title=2019 America's Best Colleges |url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/california-maritime-academy/ |work=Forbes |access-date=September 8, 2019}}</ref>

The 2021 ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' college rankings lists Cal Maritime as the No. 1 "Top Public College" and tied for 2nd out of 102 schools in the category "Regional Colleges (West)".<ref>{{cite web |title=Best Colleges 2019 |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/california-state-university-maritime-academy-1134 |work=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=September 8, 2019}}</ref>

In 2024, ''[[Washington Monthly]]'' ranked Cal Maritime 1st among 223 colleges that award almost exclusively bachelor's degrees in the U.S. based on its contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service. In 2024, Washington Monthly ranked Wesleyan College 3rd in the social mobility and 2nd in the service among bachelor's colleges.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2024 Bachelor's Colleges Ranking |url=https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024-college-guide/bachelors/ |access-date=2025-03-16 |website=Washington Monthly |language=en-US}}</ref>

According to a study by the Equality of Opportunity Project, the Cal Maritime had the best results of any California college in helping transform students whose parents were relatively poor (bottom 20 percent of the income bracket) into adults who are relatively wealthy (top 20 percent income) within a decade after graduation.  85% of poor students eventually became relatively wealthy. However, only 6% of the students came from poor families.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article128346494.html|title=Which California colleges help transform impoverished students into wealthy adults?|website=[[The Sacramento Bee]]|date=January 24, 2017|author-last1=Reese|author-first1=Phillip}}</ref>

==Corps of Cadets==
{{Main|California Maritime Academy Corps of Cadets}}

{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"
|+ style="font-size:90%" |Undergraduate demographics as of Fall 2023
|-
! Race and ethnicity<ref>{{cite web |title=College Scorecard: California State University Maritime Academy |url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?111188-California-State-University-Maritime-Academy |publisher=[[United States Department of Education]] |access-date=8 May 2022}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
| [[Non-Hispanic whites|White]]
|align=right| {{bartable|48|%|2||background:cyan}}
|-
| [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]]
|align=right| {{bartable|22|%|2||background:green}}
|-
| [[Asian Americans|Asian]]
|align=right| {{bartable|11|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
| [[Multiracial|Two or more races]]
|align=right| {{bartable|10|%|2||background:violet}}
|-
| [[African Americans|Black]]
|align=right| {{bartable|3|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
| Unknown
|align=right| {{bartable|2|%|2||background:#008080}} 
|-
| [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]]
|align=right| {{bartable|1|%|2||background:brown}}
|-
| [[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]]
|align=right| {{bartable|1|%|2||background:yellow}}
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |[[Economic diversity]]
|-
| [[American lower class|Low-income]]{{efn|The percentage of students who received an income-based federal [[Pell grant]] intended for low-income students.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|22|%|2||background:blue}}
|-
| [[Affluence in the United States|Affluent]]{{efn|The percentage of students who are a part of the [[American middle class]] at the bare minimum.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|78|%|2||background:red}}
|}

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Cal Maritime is the United States' only maritime academy on the West Coast and requires all undergraduate students to participate in the Corps of Cadets.  The only similar program in the Western United States is at the [[Military junior college|junior college]] [[New Mexico Military Institute]].  Since Maritime Academies comply with [[Title 46 of the Code of Federal Regulations|Title 46 Part 310 of the Code of Federal Regulations]] students are referred to as Cadets, required to wear uniforms, and utilize a demerit-based disciplinary system.  Participation in [[Navy Reserve Merchant Marine Insignia|Navy Reserve Merchant Marine]] training program is no longer required, but Cadets still utilize [[United States Merchant Marine|Merchant Marine]] [[Uniforms of the United States Navy|Navy-style uniforms]], customs, and traditions.  Based on academic majors cadets are organized into Squads, Sections, Divisions and Companies which regularly [[Muster (military)|muster]] in [[Foot drill|Morning Formations]] several times a week, as well as [[Watchkeeping|stand watches]] on campus and aboard the training ship.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csum.edu/web/campus-life/corps-of-cadets |title=CSUM |access-date=December 26, 2014}}</ref>

===Military options===
There is no armed service obligation attached to graduation from the Cal Maritime. However, financial aid and additional career opportunities exist for those students who choose to participate in any of the several military programs available on the Cal Maritime campus:

*[[United States Coast Guard|Coast Guard]] – Auxiliary University Program, Maritime Academy Graduate Program<ref name="USCG_Programs">{{cite web |last=California Maritime Academy |title=California Maritime Academy Pre-Commissioning Program |url=http://www.csum.edu/web/academics/coast-guard-officer-programs |access-date=January 14, 2012}}</ref>
*[[United States Navy|Navy]] – [[Strategic Sealift Officer Program]]<ref>{{cite web |last=California Maritime Academy |title=Strategic Sealift Officers Program |url=http://www.csum.edu/web/academics/strategic-sealift-officer-program-formerly-merchant-marine-reserve |access-date=January 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111065218/http://www.csum.edu/web/academics/strategic-sealift-officer-program-formerly-merchant-marine-reserve |archive-date=January 11, 2012 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
*[[United States Navy|Navy]] – [[Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps|Reserve Officer Training Corps]]<ref name="California Maritime Academy">{{cite web |last=California Maritime Academy |title=Navy ROTC |url=http://www.csum.edu/web/academics/navy-rotc |access-date=January 14, 2012}}</ref>
*[[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] – [[Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps|Reserve Officer Training Corps]]<ref name="California Maritime Academy"/>
*[[United States Air Force|Air Force]] – [[Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps|Reserve Officer Training Corps]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.csum.edu/web/academics/air-force-rotc |title=CSUM |access-date=December 26, 2014}}</ref>

==Athletics==
The Cal Maritime athletics teams are called the Keelhaulers (formerly known as the "Seawolves"). The academy is a member of the [[National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics]] (NAIA), primarily competing in the [[California Pacific Conference]] (Cal Pac) since the 1996–97 academic year.

Cal Maritime competes in 14 intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include basketball, crew, cross country, golf, rugby, soccer and water polo; while women's sports include basketball, crew, cross country, golf, soccer and water polo; and co-ed sports include sailing.

===History===
Cal Maritime has a long history of athletic activities. Before it joined regular intercollegiate athletics, sports teams from Cal Maritime usually played military teams from local bases. In the 1970s, Cal Maritime began to organize its sports under intercollegiate guidelines, and the student body chose the "Keelhauler" as the academy's mascot. Until then, the Academy's teams were known as the Seawolves.

===Mascot/nickname===
The Keelhauler mascot was chosen as Cal Maritime's athletic mascot by cadets in 1974, the name taken from a form of [[corporal punishment]] that was formerly used in the Dutch and English navies. [[Keelhauling]] involved tying the hands of a crewmember to a rope and hauling him under the keel of the ship. While the practice of keelhauling was formally abolished in 1853, the Keelhauler lives on as the official mascot of Cal Maritime athletics.

===Accomplishments===
Cal Maritime's [[Rugby football|rugby]] program was started in 1998 and gained varsity status in 2001. Rugby was at one time the school's most successful sport, going undefeated against Division II opponents in home matches from 2007 to 2010.<ref>Cal Maritime, Cal Maritime's Highly Successful Rugby Coach Announces Departure, August 25, 2010, http://www.csum.edu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=1a48d66d-7506-4e55-aec4-88776bcd4a14&groupId=61902 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930022623/https://www.csum.edu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=1a48d66d-7506-4e55-aec4-88776bcd4a14&groupId=61902 |date=September 30, 2011 }}</ref> Cal Maritime's rugby team has been nationally ranked in [[college rugby]], won the Pacific Coast League's Western Division Championship in 2009 and 2010, and was the runner up in the 2012 championship of the [[National Small College Rugby Organization]]. During the 2004–2005 academic year, the [[women's basketball]] team was formed and now also competes in the CalPac.

The academy's [[sailing]] team captured their first Kennedy Cup – the National Collegiate Sailing Championship – in the fall of 2009. That victory earned it the right to serve as the U.S. representative in the annual Student World Yachting Cup championships in October 2010 in [[La Rochelle]], France, where it placed 5th of 14.

The sailing team won the Kennedy Cup again in 2013, 2015, 2021 and 2022.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Kennedy Cup |url=https://gokeelhaulers.com/sports/sailing/2021-22/Kennedy_Cup |language=en}}</ref>

In 2012, the Varsity 4+ of the men's [[Rowing (sport)|crew]] team took first place in its event at the Head of the American Regatta. It beat teams from [[UC Berkeley]], [[UC Davis]], [[CSU Sacramento]], [[CSU Long Beach]], [[Humboldt State University]], [[Saint Mary's College of California]], [[Sonoma State University]], and the [[University of the Pacific (United States)|University of the Pacific]]. At the 2013 WIRA championships, the men's pair placed 2nd out of 16, while the men's novice 4+ placed 6th out of 19.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.row2k.com/results/resultspage.cfm?UID=3681658&cat=6#.UX_Zo7WbNqA |title=Collegiate Men & Women: WIRA Championships - complete results |publisher=Row2k.com |date=2013-04-28 |access-date=2014-08-18}}</ref>  Also in 2012, Cal Maritime added a men's [[cross country running]] team that finished 5th out of 8 teams in the Cal Pac Conference.

In 2014, Cal Maritime added a women's [[water polo]] team, followed by a [[Women's association football|women's soccer]] team in 2018.

=== Spirit ===
In the fall of 2022, Cal Maritime Athletics formed a student run spirit group dubbed "The Watch", playing homage to "watch standing", the main duty of deck and engine officers on ships.

==Notable alumni==
* [[Kate McCue]] (Class of 2000), [[Celebrity Cruises]] Captain<ref>{{cite web |url=https://alumni.csum.edu/pages/news/news---newsletter-archives---2015-july |title=CSU Maritime Academy: Alumni Association: News |date=July 2015 |access-date=2018-12-03 |quote=a graduate of Cal Maritime in 2000}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seatrade-cruise.com/news/news-headlines/us-woman-becomes-captain-of-celebrity-ship.html |title=US woman becomes captain of Celebrity ship |work=Seatrade Cruise News |date=July 13, 2015 |access-date=2018-12-03}}</ref>
*[[Ryan T. Holte]] (Class of 2005), Judge, [[United States Court of Federal Claims]]
* [[Jamila Reinhardt]] (Class of 2012), rugby union player<ref>{{cite web |url=https://alumni.csum.edu/class-notes/page-2 |title=CSU Maritime Academy: Alumni Association: News |date=October 27, 2016 |access-date=2018-12-03 |quote=Jamila Reinhardt, '12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usarugby.org/player/jamila-reinhardt/ |title=Jamila Reinhardt |publisher=[[USA Rugby]] |access-date=2018-12-03}}</ref>

==See also==
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* [[United States Maritime Administration]]
* [[United States service academies]]
* [[Maritime Academy]]
* [[United States Merchant Marine]]
* [[Senior Military College]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.csum.edu/}}
* [http://www.gokeelhaulers.com/ Official athletics website]

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