Matt Schilling, who played at Coastal Carolina from 1993-94 and served as an assistant coach for the Chants from 1995-00, returned to his alma mater to serve as a volunteer assistant baseball coach in the summer of 2012. Schilling is in his 11th season in his second stint on the Chanticleer staff.
Schilling coaches the infielders and works with the hitters, as well as serving as the director of the Chanticleer Baseball Camps.
Coastal’s infielders ranked in the top 10 in the NCAA in double plays turned in 2015 (66), 2016 (66), 2020 (22), 2022 (54), and 2023 (58). Chants have led the conference in double plays turned six times over the last 10 years (2013, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2022, and 2023) and ranked second twice (2017 and 2018). Helped lead CCU to five regular-season conference championships (1999, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2023 and 2025) as a coach and one as a player (1993).Part of four conference tournament championship titles – 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2025 as a coach.
As a student-athlete at Coastal, Schilling played for then-head coach John Vrooman and led the team in hitting in both 1993 (.331) and 1994 (.356). Schilling earned first-team All-Big South honors as a second baseman in 1994 and was a nominee for the Rotary Smith Award, which goes to the nation's top collegiate player. In 1993, he helped the Chants win the Big South regular-season championship.
After his playing days, Schilling was an assistant for coach Vrooman for one season and stayed on for the first four seasons of the Gary Gilmore 
Schilling came to Coastal after two years at Mercer (N.J.) Community College, where he was a two-time Junior College All-Region performer in baseball. He was the captain of Mercer's 1991 national championship soccer team and earned All-Region goalkeeping honors in 1990.