Intercollegiate sports team champions
The second tier consists of competition between student clubs from different colleges, not organized by and therefore not formally representing the institutions or their faculties.
Recurve and Compound Bow † There being a lack of specific citations for this mixed team title, the result was calculated based on the raw FITA round scores.
∗ This is believed to be the first time a tribal college team has won the top-level intercollegiate national championship event in any sport.
Intercollegiate Badminton Association, a league founded in 2007, held a few competitions starting in 2008 and faded for lack of members.
[140] USA Canoe/Kayak American Canoe Association † In 2007 all other competitors withdrew because of rough river conditions.
Starting in 2013 there is a single national champion; entry is by invitation to the top sixteen schools in the country based on Merit Points earned in competition during the year.
[257] In all cases there is no gender breakdown; teams can consist of any combination of men and women players.
Because equestrian has two unique disciplines, through 2013 this event crowned a national champion in each of three areas: Western, Hunter Seat and Overall.
[347][348][349][350] Beginning in 1974, Coastal Carolina University has hosted an annual intercollegiate invitational fishing tournament.
US Orienteering Federation [411][412][413][414][415][416][417][418] Beginning with the 2011 championship, the Division AA competition switched to the Race To-2 format.
In the Team Accuracy and Formation Skydiving events, multiple yearly entrants from the service academies have dominated.
[471] USA Powerlifting/American Drug Free Powerlifting Association * In addition to the traditional equipped divisions, raw divisions were inaugurated for both men and women in 2016, with 12 women's and 14 men's teams entering the raw team competition.
However, the first college 2000-meter national championship ever held was conducted by local businessmen on the Olympic course in Long Beach, California, as a substitute.
[558] Women (Results for 2V8 and Novice 8 are included for completeness due to the paucity of events conducted.)
Intercollegiate Rowing Association Men The IRA awards the Jim Ten Eyck Trophy, named in honor of Syracuse's rowing coach (1903–1938), to the team that accumulates the most points during the IRA Championship Regatta in a system based on the finishing places of three eights crews.
Starting in 1974, all races counted in the scoring under a system adopted by the coaches of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges.
More recently, the scoring system was revised to include only three of the four possible eights from each school in the points standings.
In 1982, a Harvard alumnus decided to remedy this perceived problem by establishing a heavyweight varsity National Collegiate Rowing Championship race in Cincinnati, Ohio.
[574] It paid for the winners of the Pac-10 Championship, the Eastern Sprints, the IRA and the Harvard-Yale race to attend.
According to US Rowing Association, contemporary news reports in 1976 and 1977 do not mention a national collegiate title.
Beginning in 1980, the NWRA sponsored the Women's Collegiate National Championship, including varsity eights.
[624] National Collegiate Rugby (NCR), formerly NSCRO, expanded beyond small colleges to include the higher divisions.
Effective August 2012, Small College Championship nomenclature replaced Division III.
The title for best overall performance (Leonard M. Fowle Trophy winner) includes the six National Championships: Men's Singlehanded, Women's Singlehanded, Match Racing Championship (previously Sloop), Women's Dinghy, Team Race, and Coed Dinghy.
[815][816] It appears that most of the college women's slow-pitch teams at that time were from Florida and North Carolina.
[893][894][895][896][897][898][899][900][901][902][903] USA Team Handball The following clubs won a national title in an open (adult) category (in these tournaments not all players were current students of the university): USTA Tennis on Campus, club-level only Intercollegiate Tennis Association (1973–present) Division I Division III (2001 - present)
Division II (2020 - present) [15][940][941][942][943][944][945] Association of College Unions International annually sponsors the National Intercollegiate Trap and Skeet Championships.
[974] Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America Conducted at the annual track and field championship meet.
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Olympic-style (freestyle) #invitational tournament[1083] Women’s Collegiate Wrestling Coalition Olympic-style (freestyle) National Collegiate Women's Wrestling Championship for NCAA schools
Many team sports that are played at the collegiate level are currently, or at one time were, governed by multi-sport intercollegiate athletic associations that were organized to meet the needs of their member colleges and universities.
