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70 years ago
1937 (April 2) — The University of California, Davis, hosts the first National Collegiate Boxing Championships.
25 years ago
1982 (March 12-13) — Suleiman Nyambui of the University of Texas at El Paso becomes the first person to win seven career individual titles in the Division I Men’s Indoor Track and Field Championships.
1982 (March) — The Divisions I, II and III women’s swimming and diving, and basketball championships debut.
1982 (March 26-27) — The University of Utah hosts the first National Collegiate Women’s Gymnastics Championships. The Utes win the first of nine titles under head coach Greg Marsden.
20 years ago
1987 (April 1-2) — The NCAA Presidents Commission expands the scope of the Association’s sixth special NCAA Convention scheduled for June to include review of specific legislation related to the costs of intercollegiate athletics programs and maintaining a proper balance between athletics and other institutional programs; initiation of a national dialogue on the compatibility of intercollegiate athletics with the aims and values of colleges and universities; and authorization of a series of studies looking at the effects of participation in intercollegiate athletics on the student-athlete and the institution.
10 years ago
1997 (March 22) — Middlebury College holds off a late surge by the University of Wisconsin, Superior, to win its third consecutive Division III Men’s Ice Hockey Championship and become the second team in Division III history to earn three straight men’s ice hockey titles.
Five years ago
2002 (March) — Division II institutions launch a pilot program to explore whether the division should develop a “graduation success” report to supplement the graduation-rate report currently required by the federal Student Right-to-Know Act.
1937 (April 2) — The University of California, Davis, hosts the first National Collegiate Boxing Championships.
25 years ago
1982 (March 12-13) — Suleiman Nyambui of the University of Texas at El Paso becomes the first person to win seven career individual titles in the Division I Men’s Indoor Track and Field Championships.
1982 (March) — The Divisions I, II and III women’s swimming and diving, and basketball championships debut.
1982 (March 26-27) — The University of Utah hosts the first National Collegiate Women’s Gymnastics Championships. The Utes win the first of nine titles under head coach Greg Marsden.
20 years ago
1987 (April 1-2) — The NCAA Presidents Commission expands the scope of the Association’s sixth special NCAA Convention scheduled for June to include review of specific legislation related to the costs of intercollegiate athletics programs and maintaining a proper balance between athletics and other institutional programs; initiation of a national dialogue on the compatibility of intercollegiate athletics with the aims and values of colleges and universities; and authorization of a series of studies looking at the effects of participation in intercollegiate athletics on the student-athlete and the institution.
10 years ago
1997 (March 22) — Middlebury College holds off a late surge by the University of Wisconsin, Superior, to win its third consecutive Division III Men’s Ice Hockey Championship and become the second team in Division III history to earn three straight men’s ice hockey titles.
Five years ago
2002 (March) — Division II institutions launch a pilot program to explore whether the division should develop a “graduation success” report to supplement the graduation-rate report currently required by the federal Student Right-to-Know Act.
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