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The first tier of intercollegiate sports in the United States includes sports that are sanctioned by one of the collegiate sport governing bodies. The major sanctioning organization is the
National Collegiate Athletic Association The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges ...
(NCAA). Before mid-1981, women's top-tier intercollegiate sports were solely governed by the
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships (see AIAW Champions). It evolved out of the Commission on Interc ...
(AIAW). Smaller colleges are governed by the
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) established in 1940, is a college athletics association for colleges and universities in North America. Most colleges and universities in the NAIA offer athletic scholarships to its stu ...
(NAIA). Two-year colleges are governed by the
National Junior College Athletic Association The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), founded in 1938, is the governing association of community college, state college and junior college athletics throughout the United States. Currently the NJCAA holds 24 separate regions ...
(NJCAA) in most of the country, except for the unaffiliated
California Community College Athletic Association The California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) is a sports association of community colleges in the U.S. state of California. It oversees 108 athletic programs throughout the state. The organization was formed in 1929 as the Calif ...
(CCCAA) and
Northwest Athletic Conference The Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC), formerly the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC), is a sports association for community colleges in the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, along with the Canadian prov ...
(NWAC). 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. This tier is also considered to be "intercollegiate" sports. Many of these sports have governing bodies that operate only at the collegiate level, such as the NCRHA. Other sports are governed by their national governing body, for example,
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.
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originated as student activities. Intercollegiate Team Champions of Non-NCAA and Non-AIAW Sports in the United States: * The championships below were bestowed by the governing bodies of specific collegiate sports in years when the sport lacked official varsity status in the NCAA (which many still lack) or in the AIAW (and the DGWS that preceded it). * Women's rugby and equestrian are currently on the NCAA list of "Emerging Sports." * Some sports (particularly women's sports) championships that are currently sanctioned by the NCAA were previously administered by a single-sport governing body (e.g., rifle, women's ice hockey, women's water polo). * At some colleges, some of these sports operate at a club level outside of any athletic department. On the other hand, some teams have been accorded varsity status within their schools' athletic programs. Generally, there is no strict separation during competition, but there are exceptions (e.g., Varsity Equestrian since 2006, as it seeks official NCAA status). * This list is reserved for champions of sports in which the NCAA did not also recognize a champion in a given year. Thus, ''non-varsity and/or club-level'' champions are excluded for sports that had a contemporary NCAA champion (e.g., men's ice hockey, alpine skiing) or other collegiate ''varsity-level'' champion (e.g., IRA rowing). * Two exceptions are (1) women's fencing (the NCAA has not offered a women-only team championship since 1989) and (2) women's bowling (the long-established US Bowling Congress championship has co-eminence). Key to initialism Some schools in this list are more commonly known by their initials. Key to location The locations of some schools in this list are not obvious from their names.


Adventure Racing

United States Adventure Racing Association
''Mixed teams unless indicated otherwise.''


Archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In ...


USA Archery


US Collegiate Archery

''(preceded by National Archery Association)'' The inaugural U.S. intercollegiate archery championships were held in November 1967 at Arizona State University with individual competition only. The second such event was in May 1969. Team titles were not bestowed, although team scores were kept.


Outdoor Target

Junior College and 2-Year College Division ''(discontinued before 1985)'' # News reports of USIAC results in 1983 and 1984 mention only four-year schools. In 1985, two- and four-year schools are combined in the reported USIAC standings. 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. (It appears that by 1995 the competition format added bracketed elimination rounds after the initial FITA rounds to determine the men's and women's champions, but not the mixed team titles.) ‡ Based on a news account, it appears that James Madison was the only team eligible for the women's compound bow team title, a new discipline in the 1995 USIAC. ∗ This is believed to be the first time a tribal college team has won the top-level intercollegiate national championship event in any sport. Bow Hunter In 2012 the USIAC began team competition in bow hunting. Basic Bow


3D Target


National Archery Association

Telegraphic or Mail Tournament (Women Recurve) National Archery Association (1930 - at least 1973) * 1930 UCLA or Phoenix JC * 1931 UCLA or Phoenix JC * 1932 UCLA or Phoenix JC * 1933 Phoenix Junior College * 1934 Phoenix Junior College * 1935 Los Angeles Junior College * 1936 Los Angeles Junior College * 1937 Los Angeles Junior College * 1938 Los Angeles Junior College * 1939 Los Angeles City College * 1940 Los Angeles City College * 1941 Connecticut * 1942 Connecticut * 19?? * 1972 East Stroudsburg State, Drexel (different rounds)


Badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ...

Women's championships administered by DGWS (1970-72) / AIAW (1973-82) are included for completeness. All others administered by American Badminton Association (later named U.S. Badminton Assn., now USA Badminton). Intercollegiate Badminton Association, a league founded in 2007, held a few competitions starting in 2008 and faded for lack of members.


Billiards Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as . There are three major subdivisions ...

Association of College Unions International
(ACUI) has conducted intercollegiate billiards tournaments since 1933. See the ACUI website for the list of men's and women's individual champions since 1937. (1936–38 telegraphic)


Bowling Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), though ...

United States Bowling Congress 2017 title won by Webber International was vacated due to use of a player who was ineligible for competition. United States Bowling Congress Starting in 2004, the NCAA has sponsored a women's team championship, apart from the USBC national championships.
2020 edition was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.


Boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...


National Collegiate Boxing Association The National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA) is a non-profit college sports organization that organizes boxing fights for student athletes. The association falls under the auspices of USA Boxing. After 1960, the NCAA no longer sanctioned box ...

Preceded by NCAA championships, 1932–1960 Men Women
United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association The United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association (USIBA) is a nonprofit amateur collegiate boxing league founded in 2012 and formed, in part, to address perceived safety and fairness issues present in the National Collegiate Boxing Association ...
∗ Cancelled due to the
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outbreak.


Canoe A canoe is a lightweight narrow water vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel and using a single-bladed paddle. In British English, the ter ...
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Kayak A kayak is a small, narrow watercraft which is typically propelled by means of a double-bladed paddle. The word kayak originates from the Greenlandic word '' qajaq'' (). The traditional kayak has a covered deck and one or more cockpits, each s ...


Flatwater

USA Canoe/Kayak


Downriver

American Canoe Association † ''In 2007 all other competitors withdrew because of rough river conditions.''


Climbing Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or any other part of the body to ascend a steep topographical object that can range from the world's tallest mountains (e.g. the eight thousanders), to small boulders. Climbing is done ...

USA Climbing USA Climbing is the national governing body of the sport of competition climbing in the United States. It promotes competition climbing in the United States in the disciplines of bouldering, lead climbing, and speed climbing, in elite, youth ...


Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...

Intercollegiate Cricket Association (1881–1924)


Twenty20

American College Cricket


Croquet

US Croquet Association American Rules Golf Croquet


Curling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns slidi ...

College Curling USA College Curling USA is the governing body of collegiate Curling in the US. The organization acts as the NCAA does in other college sports — setting game play, eligibility, and organizational rules. College Curling USA is affiliated with United ...
''US College Curling National Championship'' ''Prior to 2013, the championship was set up into "Experience" Divisions (Division I most experienced, Division V least experienced) with schools permitted entries in more than one division. Entry into the championship tournament was open to any team until the division bracket was full. 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. In all cases there is no gender breakdown; teams can consist of any combination of men and women players.''


Cycling Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from ...


Disc Golf Disc golf, also known as frisbee golf, is a flying disc sport in which players throw a disc at a target; it is played using rules similar to golf. Most disc golf discs are made out of polypropylene plastic, otherwise known as polypropene, which ...

National Collegiate Disc Golf Union † different names for same school


Dodgeball Dodgeball is a team sport in which players on two teams try to throw balls and hit opponents, while avoiding being hit themselves. The objective of each team is to eliminate all members of the opposing team by hitting them with thrown balls, cat ...


National Collegiate Dodgeball Association


Equestrian The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse". Horseback riding (or Riding in British English) Examples of this are: *Equestrian sports *Equestrian order, one of the upper classes in ...

Equestrian became an
NCAA Emerging Sports for Women NCAA Emerging Sports for Women are intercollegiate women's sports that are recognized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, but do not have sanctioned NCAA Championships. History In 1994, the NCAA adopted th ...
in 2002. Sources:


English


Intercollegiate Horse Show Association

Note:
Emory & Henry College Emory & Henry College (E&H or Emory) is a private liberal arts college in Emory, Virginia. The campus comprises of Washington County, which is part of the Appalachian highlands of Southwest Virginia. Founded in 1836, Emory & Henry College i ...
absorbed Virginia Intermont College's equestrian program when it closed at the end of the 2013–14 academic year. All championships from both colleges are credited to the program as "Intermont Equestrian at Emory & Henry College."


American National Riding Commission
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The championship showcases the American Forward Riding System and the sporting horse. Judged on equitation as a three-phase competition, competitors complete a dressage sportif ride, an outdoor hunter trials course and a USEF Medal-type hunter seat equitation course. Riders ride the same horse throughout the competition, and jumps do not exceed 3 feet in height. Note:
Emory & Henry College Emory & Henry College (E&H or Emory) is a private liberal arts college in Emory, Virginia. The campus comprises of Washington County, which is part of the Appalachian highlands of Southwest Virginia. Founded in 1836, Emory & Henry College i ...
absorbed Virginia Intermont College's equestrian program when it closed at the end of the 2013–14 academic year. All championships from both colleges are credited to the program as "Intermont Equestrian at Emory & Henry College."


Dressage


Intercollegiate Dressage Association
Note:
Emory & Henry College Emory & Henry College (E&H or Emory) is a private liberal arts college in Emory, Virginia. The campus comprises of Washington County, which is part of the Appalachian highlands of Southwest Virginia. Founded in 1836, Emory & Henry College i ...
absorbed Virginia Intermont College's equestrian program when it closed at the end of the 2013–14 academic year. All championships from both colleges are credited to the program as "Intermont Equestrian at Emory & Henry College."


Western

American Quarter Horse Association


Multidisciplinary

;National Collegiate Equestrian Association A Varsity Equestrian championship is held each year among colleges and universities competing at the varsity level. Because equestrian has two unique disciplines, through 2013 this event crowned a national champion in each of three areas: Western, Hunter Seat and Overall.


Fencing Fencing is a group of three related combat sports. The three disciplines in modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre (also ''saber''); winning points are made through the weapon's contact with an opponent. A fourth discipline, ...
, Women-only

National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (NIWFA), ''(IWFA 1929-63)'' Team Foil NIWFA title competition was held in addition to the
AIAW The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships (see AIAW Champions). It evolved out of the Commission on Inte ...
championship from 1980 to 1982 and the NCAA women's championship from 1982 to 1989. Starting in 1990, the NCAA has sponsored a combined men's and women's team championship, declaring one overall combined champion. NIWFA membership in 2018 consisted of 20 schools. There were 41 schools with women's varsity programs in all divisions of the NCAA, as of 9/1/09. Most, if not all, NIWFA member schools are members of the NCAA. ''* did not win NCAA women’s championship (held 1982-89)'' Team Épée, Team Sabre, Combined Weapon † ''Foil and Épée only''


Figure Skating Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

US Figure Skating


Fishing Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment, but may also be caught from fish stocking, stocked bodies of water such as fish pond, ponds, canals, park wetlands and reservoirs. ...

Bass Fishing (two-person team) FLW Outdoors College Series Bassmaster College Bass Fishing Series Association of Collegiate Anglers, Cabela's Collegiate Bass Fishing Series Saltwater Fishing An intercollegiate deep-sea fishing championship was held from 1956 through 1975 off of Wedgeport, Nova Scotia. Yale University won in 1956. Beginning in 1974,
Coastal Carolina University Coastal Carolina University (CCU or Coastal) is a public university in Conway, South Carolina. Founded in 1954 as Coastal Carolina Junior College, and later joining the University of South Carolina System as USC Coastal Carolina, it became an in ...
has hosted an annual intercollegiate invitational fishing tournament.


Flag Football Flag football is a variant of American football where, instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier ("deflagging") to end a down. The sport has a strong amateur following ...

American Collegiate Intramural Sports and Fitness National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association


Flowboarding

These competitions were part of the CBS Sports "
Collegiate Nationals The Collegiate Nationals was a multisport event for college students across the United States. The events aired annually on CBS College Sports Network from 2006 through 2012. In 2009 the name was changed to "The Alt Games." The Nationals included ...
" and "Alt Games" presentations.


Flying (

Aviation Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' includes airplane, fixed-wing and helicopter, rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as aerostat, lighter- ...
)

National Intercollegiate Flying Association * Aircraft type certificated as Airplane-Single Engine Land only. * No more than four (4) place. * Maximum horsepower-250 bhp. * May not be equipped with an after-market short take-off and landing modification. * Contestants acting as pilot-in-command in flying events must possess at least a Private Pilot certificate with appropriate category and class ratings. * Contestants who hold or have ever held an Airline Transport Pilot certificate or have accumulated more than 1500 total flight hours are not eligible to compete. ''Flying events:'' * Power Off Landing * Short Field Approach and Landing * Navigation * Message Drop * IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) Precision Flight * IFR Simulated Flight * CRM/LOFT (Crew Resource Management/Line Oriented Flight Training) SAFECON Championship Trophy


Handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the ...
(American)

US Handball Association From 1953 to 1980 only a men's title was awarded. Women participated in a non-scoring method in 1980. From 1981 through 1986 women contributed to a combined team championship, the only title given. In 1987 two championships — a men's and a women's — were established. In 1988, the current men-women-combined championships were established.


Hurling Hurling ( ga, iománaíocht, ') is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of p ...

National Collegiate Gaelic Athletic Association


Judo is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo") ...


Karate (; ; Okinawan pronunciation: ) is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tii'' in Okinawan) under the influence of Chinese martial arts, particularly Fuj ...


ISKF Shotokan

National Collegiate Karate Association † In 1999, 2000 and 2001, the kumite competition included brown belts in addition to black belts.
∗ Hurricane Katrina caused cancellation.
2012 results do not mention team titles for kumite.
‡ Official results state that the championship title was for "Collegiate Team Kumite."


ITF

Karate (; ; Okinawan pronunciation: ) is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tii'' in Okinawan) under the influence of Chinese martial arts, particularly Fuj ...

Schools that follow the ITF standards typically use the Chang Hon forms.


Orienteering Orienteering is a group of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a ...

US Orienteering Federation


Paintball Paintball is a competitive team shooting sport in which players eliminate opponents from play by hitting them with spherical dye-filled gelatin capsules called paintballs that break upon impact. Paintballs are usually shot using low-energy a ...

Beginning with the 2011 championship, the Division AA competition switched to the Race To-2 format. Division A format is X-Ball. National Collegiate Paintball Association


Parachuting Parachuting, including also skydiving, is a method of transiting from a high point in the Atmosphere of Earth, atmosphere to the surface of Earth with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the descent using a parachut ...

US Parachute Association The USPA National Collegiate Parachute Championships consist of both individual and team events. Individual events are classic accuracy, sport accuracy and freefall style. The team events are classic accuracy and formation diving (and before 2007, 2-person freefly diving). Schools other than the service academies have been competitive only in sport accuracy and freefly diving. In the Team Accuracy and Formation Skydiving events, multiple yearly entrants from the service academies have dominated. For example, in 2008, 6 USMA and 4 USAFA teams placed in the top 10 in team accuracy.


Pistol A pistol is a handgun, more specifically one with the chamber integral to its gun barrel, though in common usage the two terms are often used interchangeably. The English word was introduced in , when early handguns were produced in Europe, a ...

National Rifle Association


Polo (Arena)

US Polo Association


Powerboating (Outboards)


Powerlifting Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athlete attempting a maximal weight single-lift effo ...

Earlier national collegiate powerlifting championships are known to have been held during 1969 (at Florida State) and 1976 (at Ohio University). 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. World Association of Benchers and Deadlifters


Racquetball Racquetball is a racquet sport and a team sport played with a hollow rubber ball on an indoor or outdoor court. Joseph Sobek invented the modern sport of racquetball in 1950, adding a stringed racquet to paddleball in order to increase velo ...

US Racquetball Association
Division I and II championship competitions were separated in 2005. Division II


Rodeo Rodeo () is a competitive equestrian sport that arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain and Mexico, expanding throughout the Americas and to other nations. It was originally based on the skills required of the working vaq ...

National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association The National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA), based in Walla Walla, Washington, was established in 1949. The NIRA sanctions more than 100 college rodeo Rodeo () is a competitive equestrian sport that arose out of the working practice ...
During 1960, the NIRA split into two organizations: the American Collegiate Rodeo Association (ACRA) with 13 member schools and the parent NIRA. The two reunited in 1961. Men Women


Roller Hockey, Inline

National Collegiate Inline Hockey Association (1996–98) Collegiate Roller Hockey League (1999 through 7/31/2003)
National Collegiate Roller Hockey Association The National Collegiate Roller Hockey Association (NCRHA) is an "incorporated not-for-profit corporation" which operates a national collegiate inline hockey league consisting of five divisions of competition (Division I, Division II, Division III ...
(8/1/2003 - )


Rowing Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically ...


Varsity Openweight Eights

Men
Rowing Association of American Colleges
''The RAAC was the first collegiate athletic organization in the United States.''
Intercollegiate Rowing Association The Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) governs intercollegiate rowing between varsity men's heavyweight, men's lightweight, and women's lightweight rowing programs across the United States, while the NCAA fulfills this role for women's ope ...
'' * Not held in 1933 due to the Depression. 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. Washington raced both Harvard and Yale for the first time at this event and defeated Yale by eight feet to win the championship. Washington counts this victory among its string of Men’s National Varsity Eight Championships.'' † ''Navy was disqualified from the IRA Regatta for use of an ineligible coxswain. Trophies won by Navy were forfeited and not awarded. Cornell finished second.'' Women
(Results for 2V8 and Novice 8 are included for completeness due to the paucity of events conducted.)


Varsity Fours


Varsity Lightweight Eights

Intercollegiate Rowing Association The Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) governs intercollegiate rowing between varsity men's heavyweight, men's lightweight, and women's lightweight rowing programs across the United States, while the NCAA fulfills this role for women's ope ...

Men Women


Lightweight Four/Double

Intercollegiate Rowing Association The Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) governs intercollegiate rowing between varsity men's heavyweight, men's lightweight, and women's lightweight rowing programs across the United States, while the NCAA fulfills this role for women's ope ...

Men's Varsity Lightweight Four Women's Varsity
Lightweight Four
(with coxswain)
Women's Varsity
Lightweight Double Scull


Overall Points

Intercollegiate Rowing Association The Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) governs intercollegiate rowing between varsity men's heavyweight, men's lightweight, and women's lightweight rowing programs across the United States, while the NCAA fulfills this role for women's ope ...
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. From 1952 through 1973, the winning team was the one with the most points in the varsity, junior varsity and freshman eights. 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. † ''Navy was disqualified from the IRA Regatta for use of an ineligible coxswain. Trophies won by Navy were forfeited and not awarded.'' Women and Combined


Smaller Colleges

The
Aberdeen Dad Vail Regatta The Dad Vail Regatta is the largest regular intercollegiate rowing event in the United States, drawing over a hundred colleges and universities from North America. The regatta has been held annually on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, P ...
, which is held in Philadelphia and is sponsored by the Dad Vail Rowing Association, is a national championship caliber regatta for lower level college teams. It is the largest collegiate regatta in the nation.


Men's Openweight Team (1982–96)

The now defunct National Collegiate Rowing Championship was a quasi-official national championship (as nothing until that time could be called "official" rather than ''de facto'') for men's collegiate rowing held in Cincinnati, Ohio between 1982 and 1996. During these years Harvard, Yale and Washington, three of the sport's powers, did not participate in the
IRAs The Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( Dutch: ''Infrarood Astronomische Satelliet'') (IRAS) was the first space telescope to perform a survey of the entire night sky at infrared wavelengths. Launched on 25 January 1983, its mission lasted ten ...
. In 1982, a Harvard alumnus decided to remedy this perceived problem by establishing a heavyweight varsity National Collegiate Rowing Championship race in Cincinnati, Ohio. It paid for the winners of the Pac-10 Championship, the Eastern Sprints, the IRA and the Harvard-Yale race to attend. It was a finals-only event, and other crews could attend if they paid their own way and there was room in the field. After 1996 the race was discontinued.


Women's Varsity Eights (1971–96)

The National Women's Rowing Association (NWRA) sponsored an annual open eights national championship from 1971 to 1979, among college and non-college teams. (There were no eights prior to 1971.) During this period, only in 1973 and 1975 did a college team win the national eights championship outright. 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. In 1986 the NWRA dissolved after recognizing US Rowing's assuming of responsibility as the national governing body for women's rowing. NWRA Open National Championship
''Eights top college finishers'', 1971–1979 (champion in parentheses) : *1971
Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
(first place - Vesper Boat Club) *1972
Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
(first place - College Boat Club) *1973
Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and h ...
(NWRA open champion) *1974
Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and h ...
(first place - Vesper Boat Club) *1975
Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
(NWRA open champion) *1976
Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
(first place - College Boat Club) *1977
Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
(first place - Vesper Boat Club) *1978
Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
(first place - Burnaby Boat Club) *1979
Yale Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...
(first place - Burnaby BC) NWRA / US Rowing Women's Collegiate National Championship, ''Varsity eights'' : ''* simultaneous
AIAW The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships (see AIAW Champions). It evolved out of the Commission on Inte ...
championship, the only one conducted'' The above Women's Varsity 8 results are included for completeness, even though women's rowing is now an NCAA sport and has had annual NCAA women's championships from 1997, in which women currently compete in a Varsity 8, a Second Varsity 8, and a Varsity Four.


Other

USRowing announced that an inaugural USRowing Collegiate National Championship regatta was to be held May 21–23, 2010, at Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J. The regatta was to be open to all athletes enrolled in a college or university. Events were to include both small and large boats, from single sculls to eights. The regatta was to be open to all collegiate programs, club or varsity, across all divisions and was to include both lightweight and open weight boat classes. USRowing stated that it hoped to provide a chance for varsity and club programs to compete head-to-head on a 2000-meter course and an opportunity for collegiate athletes to compete in small boats and sculling events.


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Rugby became an
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in 2003.


Rugby 7s


Collegiate Rugby Championship The Collegiate Rugby Championship (CRC) is an annual college rugby sevens tournament. The CRC is the highest profile college rugby sevens competition in the United States, with the tournament broadcast live on NBC from 2010–2017, on ESPN News an ...

Organized by National Collegiate Rugby from 2021 under license for name and logo. Men Women


USA Rugby Sevens Collegiate National Championships

In the first three years, strong teams that won bids declined to participate. Men Women


National Collegiate Rugby Organization

Men, Division II *2022 – Indiana University of Pennsylvania Small College
Men Small College
Women


American Collegiate Rugby Association American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...
(Women)

National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (Women)


Rugby Union

The governance of collegiate rugby was split and diverged in 2021. The umbrella of the USA Rugby Collegiate Council includes College Rugby Association of America (CRAA), American Collegiate Rugby Association (ACRA), American College Rugby (ACR), and independent conferences. National Collegiate Rugby (NCR), formerly NSCRO, expanded beyond small colleges to include the higher divisions. Men's and women's conferences each chose as individual conferences (in some cases, schools within conferences also chose) to align with USA Rugby or NCR. Women
Twelve women's conferences that played historically in DII left the oversight of USA Rugby to join NCR. Beginning in 2021, women's college rugby within NCR is split between Small College and an Open Division. The Open Division, which NCR now refers to as its DI, is made up of teams from these 12 conferences. According to ''Goff Rugby Report'', the DI Elite women's teams are part of College Rugby Association of America, and so are the vast majority of women's DI conferences (eight conferences) and the independents. There are also a couple of DII or hybrid conferences within CRAA. The American Collegiate Rugby Association is a group of four DII-level women's conferences remaining under the aegis of USA Rugby, which included 62 teams as of June, 2020. The NCAA women's varsity programs in the National Intercollegiate Rugby Association run their own competition and have a sanctioning agreement with USA Rugby. Men
In 2021, most DII men's rugby conferences aligned with NCR. Two men's conferences that played DIA in 2019 joined NCR in 2021, as have three DIAA conferences. Under NCR, they competed in fall 2021 as DI and DIAA, with separate postseasons. Men's DIAA was dramatically split in 2021, with both NCR and CRAA-run postseasons in the fall. There will likely be a CRAA-run postseason in spring 2022. According to ''Goff Rugby Report'', there is no way to have a men's DIAA national champion in 2021–2022. In 2021, there are five men's DIA conferences plus independents under USA Rugby/CRAA.


Men, Division I

National Collegiate Rugby ;Men, Division I *2021 (fall) – St. Bonaventure 19, Penn State 18 ;Men, Division I-AA *2021 (fall) – Virginia Tech 34, West Chester 22


Women, Division I

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As of fall 2021, according to ''Goff Rugby Report'', "The vast majority of women's DI conferences are playing as part of College Rugby Association of America" (USA Rugby). National Collegiate Rugby ;Women, Division I According to ''Goff Rugby Report'', the vast majority of women's teams and conferences that switched to working with NCR for fall 2021 previously competed in USA Rugby's DII women's competition. NCR refers to this division as its DI. In 2021, Life University fielded a largely freshman and sophomore team. *2021 (fall) – Life University 87, Northern Iowa 3


Division II

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National Collegiate Rugby ;Men, Division II *2021 (fall) – Thomas More


Other D1/D2

American Collegiate Rugby Association American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...
(Women)
ACRA formed in 2013 as a group committed to fall 15s and spring 7s. As of 2021, the American Collegiate Rugby Association is a group of DII-level women's conferences — Tri-State, MARC, Rugby Northeast, NEWCRC. In 2021, they invited the Rocky Mountain Conference to send teams to the ACRA playoffs, which are held in the fall; five conferences sent eight teams. According to ''Goff Rugby Report'', "ACRA's championship isn't technically a ationalwomen's DII championship, but it's pretty close, sthere are teams that play DII-level rugby and will play in the spring 022 They won't be ACRA." National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (Women)
The NCAA women's varsity programs in the National Intercollegiate Rugby Association run their own competition and have a sanctioning agreement with USA Rugby. It began play in 2015.


Small College Championship

National Collegiate Rugby Organization From 2002 to 2006 for Men's Division III and from 2003 to 2006 for Women's Division III, event name was "East Coast Division III Collegiate Championship." In 2007, events were renamed to "National Men's Collegiate Division III Championship", "National Women's Collegiate Division III Championship" and "National Women's Collegiate Division IV Championship". Effective August 2012, ''Small College Championship'' nomenclature replaced ''Division III''.


Sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' ( land yacht) over a chose ...


Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Championship

The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA; Inter-Collegiate Yacht Racing Association prior to 2001) holds National Championships in six different events. Since intercollegiate sailing is a fall and spring sport, three of these championships are held in the fall and three are held in the spring. The Fall Championships are for single-handed men and women and sloops. The Sloop Championships take place in mid-November using small keelboats supplied by the venue. Each sloop team sails with a crew of three. In the fall of 2010, the sloop championship was converted to a match racing format. The ICSA National Championship Regatta is held once each year in May and is actually composed of three different regattas: a Team Racing Championship, a Women's Championship and a Coed Dinghy Championship. The most prestigious of these events is the Coed Dinghy Championship. 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.


Collegiate Offshore Large Boats Championship

''Kennedy Cup, boat class: Navy 44''


Collegiate Match Racing Championship

''Douglas Cup''


Snowboard Snowboards are boards where the user places both feet, usually secured, to the same board. The board itself is wider than most skis, with the ability to glide on snow."snowboarding." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 17 Mar ...
and Ski

United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association In 2009, events included Giant Slalom, Slalom, Cross-Country Sprints, Cross-Country Relays, Cross-Country Distance, Halfpipe, Slopestyle, SkierCross, and Snowboard Cross. NCAA championship alpine events likewise include slalom and GS. However, the NCAA Nordic program is limited to 2 events. Because the USCSA Nordic competition occurs in 4 or more events each for men and women, the Nordic winners are included here.


Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...
(Slow-pitch), Women

After the last
AIAW The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships (see AIAW Champions). It evolved out of the Commission on Inte ...
competition in 1982, college championships were conducted by the
Amateur Softball Association An amateur () is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income. Amateurs and their pursuits are also described as popular, informal, self-taught, user-generated, DIY, and hobbyist. History ...
in 1983 and 1984. It appears that most of the college women's slow-pitch teams at that time were from Florida and North Carolina. After 1984, the highest level of collegiate national championship was conducted by the
National Junior College Athletic Association The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), founded in 1938, is the governing association of community college, state college and junior college athletics throughout the United States. Currently the NJCAA holds 24 separate regions ...
, whose slow-pitch tournament was held from 1983 through 2000.


Squash

College Squash Association National nine-player team champions: From 1942 to 1988, the title was based on dual-match records, with the team with the best record becoming the national champion. Since 1989, the title has been based on performance in the National Team Championships, with the team winning the “A” division becoming the national champion. Between 1956 and 1988, the National Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association awarded an additional team trophy based on players’ performances in the national individual tournament. From 1956 to 1968, teams competed with four players, and from 1969 to 1988, they competed with six players.


Surfing Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitable ...

National Scholastic Surfing Association (1978 - )


Synchronized Skating

US Figure Skating


Synchronized Swimming Synchronized swimming (in British English, synchronised swimming) or artistic swimming is a sport where swimmers perform a synchronized choreographed routine, accompanied by music. The sport is governed internationally by FINA (the ''Fédérati ...

United States Synchronized Swimming Preceded by
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tournament 1977-82


Table Tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

National Collegiate Table Tennis Association


Taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean martial arts, Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast k ...

National Collegiate Taekwondo Association † 1984 was the final year of separate men's and women's team competitions. ‡ Beginning in 1997, the black belt competition has been conducted in a "championship division." Separate team awards were added for other belt colors and novices.


Team Handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the ...

USA Team Handball USA Team Handball is the governing body for handball in the United States. USA Team Handball is funded in part by the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee. Previously, the governing body was the United States Team Handball Federation. USA Team H ...
The following clubs won a national title in an open category (in these tournaments not all players were current students of the university teams): * Men's Open Division (until 1999 the highest tier in the USA): **
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: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 **
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: 1978, 2004 **
UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...
: 1979 **
University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...
: 2005 **
West Point The United States Military Academy (USMA), also known Metonymy, metonymically as West Point or simply as Army, is a United States service academies, United States service academy in West Point, New York. It was originally established as a f ...
: 2006 * Men's Elite Division (highest tier since 2000): **No team has won the title.
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has one silver and two bronze medals. * Women's Open Division (highest tier in the USA): **
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:
1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
**
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: 1978 **
University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...
: 1990


Team Tennis, Co-ed ( WTT format)

USTA Tennis on Campus, ''club-level only''


Tennis, Indoor

Intercollegiate Tennis Association ''(1973–present)'' '' Division I '' '' Division III (2001 - present)'' '' Division II (2020 - present)''


Trap & skeet shooting

Association of College Unions International annually sponsors the National Intercollegiate Trap and Skeet Championships. The championships are the only national tournament in which shooters may compete in five different clay target games in the same program: American Trap, International Trap, American Skeet, International Skeet and Sporting Clays. The 2011 championship event is "the 43rd of the championship's history." 1983–1995: ? Division II
2015: Texas A&M


Triathlon A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of swimming, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the time transitioning between the ...

Triathlon became an
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in 2014. Sources: USA Triathlon ''* 2006 event was a
duathlon Duathlon is an athletic event that consists of a running leg, followed by a cycling leg and then another running leg in a format similar to triathlons. The International Triathlon Union governs the sport internationally. Distance and format ...
(water temperature too cold for swim), with 5K run, 40K bike and 10K run segments.''


Tug-of-War Tug of war (also known as tug o' war, tug war, rope war, rope pulling, or tugging war) is a sport that pits two teams against each other in a test of strength: teams pull on opposite ends of a rope, with the goal being to bring the rope a cert ...

Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America IC4A Championships (Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America) is an annual men's competition held at different colleges every year. Association was established in 1875, the competition (started in 1876) served as the top level col ...
Conducted at the annual track and field championship meet.


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Ultimate Players Association (1979-2010), USA Ultimate (2010–present) Division I Division III


Wakeboarding Wakeboarding is a water sport in which the rider, standing on a wakeboard (a board with foot bindings), is towed behind a motorboat across its wake and especially up off the crest in order to perform aerial maneuvers. A hallmark of wakeboardin ...

American Wakeboard Association (2001-2004), USA Wakeboard (2005–present), College Wake (2010–present) Cable Wakeboarding


Water skiing Water skiing (also waterskiing or water-skiing) is a surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on two skis or one ski. The sport requires suffic ...

National Collegiate Water Ski Association Barefoot Waterskiing


Weightlifting Weightlifting generally refers to activities in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells or barbells. People lift various kinds of weights for a variety of different reasons. These may include various types of competition; pro ...

USA Weightlifting


Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat s ...
, Women

Women's Collegiate Wrestling Association
Olympic-style (freestyle)
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Collegiate-style (folkstyle) National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
Olympic-style (freestyle) Women's Collegiate Wrestling Coalition
Collegiate-style (folkstyle)


Intercollegiate team champions of NCAA and AIAW sports

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. The oldest of these is the
National Collegiate Athletic Association The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges ...
(NCAA), founded in 1906 to address the rash of serious injuries and deaths arising in the collegiate sport of American football. It conducted its first team national championship events in the sport of track and field in 1921. Over the years, the NCAA has added championship events for a variety of sports, with divisions of competition based upon school size and enrollment, and now conducts over 90 championships. Before NCAA events were initiated in particular sports, national governing bodies for many of those sports typically conducted annual collegiate championship events. The organization that is now the
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(NAIA) began in 1937 with the first collegiate men's basketball tournament, which led to the formation of the National Association of intercollegiate Basketball in 1940. It serves primarily small colleges. With the growth of organized women's intercollegiate sports, the Division for Girls' and Women's Sports first conducted women's championship events and later created the
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(AIAW) in 1972 to govern women's sports at the collegiate level, coinciding with the advent of
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federal legislation. The NCAA later usurped the mission of the AIAW by conducting its first women's championships in twelve sports directly head-to-head with the AIAW in a year of dual team championships in 1981–82. The AIAW was legally dissolved in 1983.
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Team Champions: ''see'' NCAA Championships Pre-NCAA Team Champions: ''see'' Pre-NCAA intercollegiate championships
AIAW The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships (see AIAW Champions). It evolved out of the Commission on Inte ...
Team Champions: ''see'' AIAW and DGWS Championships NAIA Team Champions: ''see''
NAIA Championships Naia or NAIA may refer to: Sports * National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics * NAIA Softball Championship * NAIA Volleyball Championship * NAIA World Series * NAIA Wrestling Championship * NAIA lacrosse Other * Naia (skeleton), a P ...


See also

*
List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I championships Listed below are the colleges or universities with the most NCAA Division I-sanctioned team championships, individual championships, and combined team and individual championships, as documented by information published on official NCAA websites. ...
*
List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships This is a list of U.S. universities and colleges that have won the most team sport national championships (more than 15) that have been bestowed for the highest level of collegiate athletic competition, be that at either the varsity or club level, ...
* List of NCAA schools with the most AIAW Division I national championships


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Intercollegiate Sports Team Champions College sports championships in the United States Lists of sports championships