Other lettermen from the team that compiled a 21-9 record and finished as runner-up in the National Invitation Tournament were: Art Hambric, Donnell Reid, Bill Nordmann, Dave Harris, Dave Luechtefeld and George Latinovich.

** In 1947, Wooden's basketball team won the conference title and received an invitation to the NAIA National Tournament in Kansas City.

With their only men's National Championship coming in the days before the NCAA Tournament, the Purdue Boilermakers have a strong basketball history:

** National Tournament Top 10 finishes: 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1989, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2000

* 30 appearances in the NJCAA National Tournament

The first Comedy League of America National Tournament was held in 1988, with 10 teams participating.

In 1986, the National Mah Jongg League conducted their first Mah Jongg Cruise Tournament, in conjunction with Mah Jongg Madness.

It was designed in the late 1920s by Alister MacKenzie, the designer of Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia ( home of The Masters Tournament ).

The first National Show Ski Tournament was held in 1974, and the first ever National Intercollegiate Water Ski Championships was held in 1979.

There is now an established UK Racketball Tournament Series consisting of 8 events around the UK, which forms the basis of the national rankings along with the National Racketball championships held annually at The Edgebaston Priory Club.

* High School National Championship Tournament ( HSNCT ) is sponsored by National Academic Quiz Tournaments since 1999.

* The National All-Star Academic Tournament ( NASAT ) is a national tournament hosted by High School Academic Pyramidal Questions ( HSAPQ ).

The 1987 National Tournament, on the Disney Channel, saw additional controversy, as a number of protested matches proved to strain the television format.

Bob Hoffman became more and more influential in the development of this new lifting sport and organized ‘ The Weightlifting Tournament of America ’ in 1964-effectively the first US National championships.

In the 90's Manual students won the Jefferson County championships most years and qualifed teams for the National Forensic League tournament and the TOC Tournament of Champions.

Ranked among the top-20 nationally throughout the season, the Lady Bearcats were defeated in their opening-round National Tournament game by Greensboro College.

Since 1951, men ’ s teams have captured 26 Big State and Heart of Texas conference championships and made 16 NAIA National Tournament appearances.

The course, which is considered to be the jewel of Alabama's Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, has hosted a number of national tournaments, including the 1997 Nike Tour championship, the 1998 LPGA Tournament of Champions, and the 2000 NCAA Men's Division 1 National Championship.

In 2005, Champaign-Urbana ( specifically the University of Illinois ) was the location of the National Science Olympiad Tournament, attracting young scientists from all 50 states.

She regularly entered public speaking competitions, placing first in the " Humorous Interpretation " category at the National District Tournament two years running.

The band has appeared in the Tournament of Roses Parade ( 1996 ), the National Cherry Blossom Festival parade, the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival parade and field show competition ( which it won for three consecutive years, 1990 – 92 ), as well as several other festivals and Disney Magic Music Days at Walt Disney World.

Won the National / Regional Tournament three straight years from 2005 to 2007 and took runner-up in 2008.

Institute's Academic Area comprises academic buildings, various departments, facilities like PK Kelkar Library, Computer Centre, National Wind Tunnel Facility and SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Centre.

In a meeting held on 9 November 1905 at the Field and Academic Club, Subodh Chandra Mullick pledged Rupees one lakh for the foundation of a National University in Bengal.

For several years, U. S. News & World Report, the QS World University Rankings, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities have ranked MIT's School of Engineering first, as did the 1995 National Research Council report.

Other accreditations include the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance ; American Chemical Society ; Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Professionals ( surgical technology ); Council on Academic Accreditation of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association ( communication disorders ); Council on Social Work Education ; Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Certification ; International Association of Counseling Services, Inc .; Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulation, State Board of Nursing ; National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences ; National Association of Industrial Technology ; National Association of Schools of Music ; Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.

Upper Iowa University participates in the North Central Association ( NCA ) Academic Quality Improvement Program ( AQIP ), has a UIU chapter of the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society, and 165 student athletes were honored in 2010 for academic excellence.

* The Council for National Academic Awards, UK is wound up.

* The Council for National Academic Awards is established in the UK.

In 1996, National Academic Quiz Tournaments ( NAQT ) was founded.

The National Academic Championship is played in four-quarter format.

* National Academic Quiz Tournaments ( NAQT )

* National Academic Championship ( NAC ) has been held since 1983, and is sponsored by Questions Unlimited.

* National Scholastics Championship ( NSC ) has been held since 1998, and is organized by the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence ( PACE ).

The Texaco Star National Academic Championship premiered July 1, 1989, on the Discovery Channel.

In the 1990s with the rise of the Academic Competition Federation and National Academic Quiz Tournaments, both with their own national championships, a number of schools ( such as the University of Maryland, the University of Chicago, both former national champions, and recent runner up Georgia Tech ) " de-affiliated " from College Bowl.

In 2007, Forest Avenue Academic Magnet Elementary School was named a National Blue Ribbon School.

Louisiana Tech is one of only 35 comprehensive research universities in the nation and the only university in Louisiana to be designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and Research by the National Security Agency ( NSA ) and the United States Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ).

The American Psychiatric Association and the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence recommend antipsychotics for managing acute psychotic episodes in schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, and as a longer-term maintenance treatment for reducing the likelihood of further episodes.

Guidelines issued by the UK-based National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), carried out a systematic review using different methodology and came to a different conclusion.

According to National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), benzodiazepines can be used in the immediate management of GAD, if necessary.

However, the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence did not find any convincing evidence in favor of Z-drugs.

In the United Kingdom, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) recommends CBT in the treatment plans for a number of mental health difficulties, including posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive – compulsive disorder ( OCD ), bulimia nervosa, and clinical depression.

Hypnosis for IBS has received moderate support in the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance published for UK health services.

In April 2006, Lynch was awarded the " National Chairman of Volunteers " Award for Volunteer Excellence by the American Red Cross, due to his leadership during the 2005 floods.

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program educates organizations in performance excellence management and administers the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

In Canada, the National Quality Institute presents the ' Canada Awards for Excellence ' on an annual basis to organisations that have displayed outstanding performance in the areas of Quality and Workplace Wellness, and have met the Institute's criteria with documented overall achievements and results.

The Alliance for Performance Excellence is a network of state and local organizations that use the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Criteria at the grassroots level to improve the performance of local organizations and economies.

The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) suggests patients taking only one type of AEDs at a time.

ISIS Canada is a National Network of Centres of Excellence ( NCE ) developing better ways to build, repair and monitor civil structures.

The UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) guidelines recommend ECT for patients with severe depression, catatonia, or prolonged or severe mania.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), UK released updated diabetes recommendations on the 30th May 2008, which recommend that self-monitoring of plasma glucose levels for people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes must be integrated into a structured self-management education process.

The chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), told The Guardian newspaper that " it is neither true, nor is it anything you could extrapolate from anything we've ever recommended " that Kennedy would be denied treatment by the NHS.

In its first four years, the magazine won two National Magazine Awards for General Excellence and one for Design.

In 2005 the magazine received the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in the category of 500, 000 to 1, 000, 000 subscribers.

In May 2007, the magazine again won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence.

In 2009, Wired was nominated for four National Magazine Awards – including General Excellence, Design, Best Section ( Start ), and Integration – and won three: General Excellence, Design and Best Section ( Start ).

DPZ ’ s projects have received numerous awards, including two National AIA Awards, the Thomas Jefferson Award, the Vincent Scully Prize and two Governor ’ s Urban Design Awards for Excellence.