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NCAA News Archive - 2006
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Looking back
1986 (November 16) — The first Division III Women’s Soccer Championship is conducted at State University College at Cortland.
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Centennial moments, 1985-86
The following events helped shape the NCAA from 1985 through 1986.
- 1985 (March) — The first Divisions II and III Women’s Indoor Track and Field Championships are conducted at North Dakota State University and Bates College, respectively.
1985 (May 19) — The College of New Jersey (then known as Trenton State College) wins the first Division III Women’s Lacrosse Championship, claiming the first of its 10 titles between 1985 and 2000.
1985 (December 21) — Georgia Southern University wins the first of six Division I-AA Football Championship titles between 1985 and 2000 (three under coach Erk Russell, one under coach Tim Stowers and two under coach Paul Johnson).
1986 (January 13) — George H.W. Bush is honored with the Theodore Roosevelt Award during his vice presidency (he was elected as president in 1988, making him the third president to receive the award).
1986 (January 13-15) — The NCAA drug-testing program is approved. (First testing was conducted at the Division I Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships in November 1986.)
1986 (March 12-15) — California State University, Bakersfield, wins the first of 13 Division II Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships team titles between 1986 and 2004 (eight under coach Ernie Maglischo and five under coach Bob Steele).
1986 (April) — The Men’s Basketball Rules Committee adopts the three-point shot for the 1986-87 season.
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