National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
| National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics | |
|---|---|
| Seat | Kansas City |
| founding | 1937 (National College Basketball Tournament) 1940 (National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball) 1952 (NAIA)
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| place | Kansas City , Missouri , USA |
| president | Jim Carr |
| Members | 255 |
| Website | naia.cstv.com |
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is an American sports association for university sports . Small and medium-sized colleges have come together in it. The association sees itself in the tradition of the National College Basketball Tournament founded by James Naismith in 1937 , which is two years older than the NCAA's counterpart . The actual establishment of the NAIA goes back to the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball , which was founded on May 10, 1940 in Kansas City . Its current headquarters are in Olathe , a suburb of Kansas City.
history
The original purpose of the NAIA was to organize a national basketball championship for smaller universities that have no chance against the major universities of the NCAA . In 1952 the NAIB was converted into the NAIA and supported other sports. Women's competitions were finally added in 1980, following Title IX . When the NCAA finally founded a Division II and III in 1973, the NAIA continuously lost universities to its rival association and even merged its Divisions I and II in 1997. In 2017, 246 institutions were members of the NAIA.
In 1948, the Naib was the first national sports organization that you Postseason tournament after the season also for integration teams opened with black and white players. The Indiana State University -Coach John Wooden , later as coach of the UCLA legend, Clarence Walker sat in Kansas City, MO on March 10, 1948 Naib-Tournament one. However, Walker was not allowed to stay at his team's hotel and had to be housed privately. For this reason, Wooden originally wanted to decline the invitation, as in 1947, but was asked by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to take it anyway. It was not until 1953 that the NAIB opened to the traditionally black colleges and universities, together with the renaming to NAIA . In 1957, Tennessee A&I (now Tennessee State University ) was the first historically black college to win a national basketball tournament. Only coach John McLendon's team integrated the hotels in Kansas City on the advice of Chuck Taylor with the help of NAIA managing director Alva Duer .
Today the NAIA organizes the following sports: American football (men), soccer , volleyball (women), cross-country skiing , basketball , swimming , athletics , wrestling (men), baseball (men), softball (women), golf and tennis .
Initially there was also an ice hockey championship for men until 1984 . After a break of more than 30 years, it was re-established in 2017 and won in the first season after the break from Aquinas College.
Web links
- Official NAIA website. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 3, 2017 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.naia.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27900&ATCLID=205322922 on . 1st February 2017
- ^ Arnd Krüger : American sport between isolationism and internationalism. Competitive sport. 18: 1, pp. 43-47 (1988) . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 7, 2016 ; Retrieved July 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; 2, pp. 47-50. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 7, 2016 ; Retrieved July 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), ed. 1st February 2017
- ^ John Matthew Smith: The Sons of Westwood. John Wooden, UCLA, and the Dynasty that Changed College Basketball. Champaign, IL, 2013: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07973-3 (p. 37, in English).
- ↑ Milton Katz: Breaking Through. John B. McLendon, Basketball Legend and Civil Rights Pioneer Fayetteville, 2007: The University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1-55728-847-X (p. 71ff, in English)
- ↑ Results of the 2017/18 season on www.eliteprospects.de, accessed on September 11, 2018.
