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. Football in the NAIA was split into two divisions in 1970, based on enrollment (Div. I & Div. II); it was consolidated back into a single division in 1997.
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| - 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. Football in the NAIA was split into two divisions in 1970, based on enrollment (Div. I & Div. II); it was consolidated back into a single division in 1997.
- The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is an association of universities and colleges in the United States. Its member instituions tend to be smaller and of a lower class of competition than those of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Until 2009 it had members in Canada. From 1968 to 1984 it ran a program in ice hockey.
- The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) traces its roots to the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball. The NAIB was established on March 10, 1940 in Kansas City, Missouri. Currently, the headquarters are located in the Kansas City suburb of Olathe, Kansas. In 1948, the NAIB became the first national organization to open their intercollegiate postseason to African-American student-athletes.
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| - 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. Football in the NAIA was split into two divisions in 1970, based on enrollment (Div. I & Div. II); it was consolidated back into a single division in 1997.
- The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) traces its roots to the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball. The NAIB was established on March 10, 1940 in Kansas City, Missouri. Currently, the headquarters are located in the Kansas City suburb of Olathe, Kansas. The association got its start three years after a men's basketball tournament was held in Kansas City. The tournament was started by Dr. James Naismith and others who wanted 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. In 1948, the NAIB became the first national organization to open their intercollegiate postseason to African-American student-athletes. In 1952, the NAIB was transformed into the NAIA, and with that came the sponsorship of additional sports. The NAIA began sponsoring intercollegiate championships for women in 1980, the first co-ed national athletics association to do so. The NAIB/NAIA was formed on the grounds that the older, larger NCAA was predominantly oriented toward larger institutions, particularly those which played "big time" college football. When the NCAA created Division II and Division III in 1973, the NAIA started losing members to the NCAA, and the pace has accelerated since 1995. As of 2006, the NAIA is the home of 282 member institutions.
- The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is an association of universities and colleges in the United States. Its member instituions tend to be smaller and of a lower class of competition than those of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Until 2009 it had members in Canada. From 1968 to 1984 it ran a program in ice hockey. During the summer of 2015 a group of schools began working with the administrators of the NAIA to gain emerging sport status for the sport of men's ice hockey. The NAIA requires a mininum of 15 teams to sponsor a sport at the varsity level to begin the process and 15 (the 15th started play with the 2016-17 season) schools that have teams playing in the American Collegiate Hockey Association are also members of the NAIA. There are also two schools based in British Columbia that are members of the NAIA that sponsor men's ice hockey. There is also a team that plays as an independent club team that is a member of the NAIA.
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