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The
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (
NAIA) seeks to fully integrate life, academics, sport and fitness into the higher education environment. For the 2007-08 academic year, the NAIA has 287 member institutions. Currently, the headquarters are located in
Kansas City, Missouri..
History
The NAIA was formed in 1937 as the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball (NAIB), when Dr.
James Naismith and local leaders formed the National College Basketball Tournament staged at
Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The goal of the tournament was to establish a forum for small colleges and universities to determine a national basketball champion. The original eight-team tournament expanded to 32 teams in
1938. The NAIB got its start three years after that first men's
basketball tournament, on
March 10,
1940 in Kansas City, Missouri.
In
1948, the NAIB became the first national organization to open their intercollegiate postseason to black student-athletes. In
1952, the NAIB was transformed into the NAIA, and with that came the sponsorship of additional sports such as men's golf, tennis and outdoor track and field. When then
Indiana State coach John Wooden brought the first African-American student athlete to the national tournament. The association furthered its commitment in 1953 when it became the first collegiate association to invite
historically black colleges and universities into its membership. And in 1957,
Tennessee State became the first historically black institution to win a collegiate basketball national championship. The NAIA began sponsoring intercollegiate championships for women in
1980, the first coed national athletics association to do so, offering colleigite athletics championships to women in basketball, cross country, gymnastics, indoor and outdoor track and field, softball, swimming and diving, tennis and volleyball. Also, the NAIA is the only collegiate athletic association to admit international members with the acceptance of five Canadian members and the recent acceptance of the
College of the Bahamas.
Championships
Discontinued sports
Bowling
Men's Gymnastics
Women's Gymnastics
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