National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

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The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics ( NAIA ) is an American sports body for high school sports and goes back to the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball, which was founded on 10 May 1940 in Kansas City. Its current headquarters, it has in Olathe, a suburb of Kansas City.

The original purpose of Naib was to organize a national basketball championship. 1952, the Naib was transformed into the NAIA and supported other sports. Mrs. competitions were finally created in 1980. The Naib / NAIA has also been created from the ground because of the larger and older NCAA sports association was mainly fixed on the large universities, particularly those which have been successful in college football. When the NCAA In 1973, founded a Division II and III, the NAIA lost continuously universities in the competition and put even his association divisions I and II 1997 back together. In 2009, 307 institutions member of the NAIA.

Today, the following sports are of the NAIA organized: American football ( men), soccer, volleyball ( women), cross-country running, basketball, swimming, track, wrestling ( men), baseball ( men), softball ( women), golf and tennis.

Until 1984 there was also a Hockey Championship for men.

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