Accomplishments include 24 conference championships, four NAIA College World Series appearances and, most recently, the 2001 NCAA Division II conference, regional and national championships.

The softball team has led the way, winning several conference titles, appearing in 12 NAIA national tournaments and two NCAA Division II national tournaments and winning the 2002 Division-II National Championship.

Savannah hosted the NAIA college football national championship game from 1996-2007.

Howard Payne University teams achieved national championship status in 1957 and 1964 in NAIA Cross Country, and in 2008 with NCAA Division III Women's Basketball.

After compiling a 21 – 9 record in his lone season there, he moved on to Grand Canyon College, also in Phoenix, and after two seasons led them to the NAIA national title in 1988.

Saint John's has won six national team championships ( 2007, 2008 Golf Division III, 2003, 1976 Football Division III, 1965, 1963 Football NAIA ).

May 2012 graduate Danielle Brenon was the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field national champion in the marathon.

The Rockhurst Men's Soccer team competed in the NAIA from 1973 – 1997, Rockhurst played in 17 national tournaments, advanced to the Final Four 10 times, and finished national runner-up four times in 1973, 1976, 1979, and 1997.

The NAIA sponsors 23 national championships.

The CBS College Sports Network, formerly called CSTV, serves as the national media for the NAIA.

The NAIA began sponsoring intercollegiate championships for women in 1980, the first coed national athletics association to do so, offering collegiate athletics championships to women in basketball, cross country, gymnastics, indoor and outdoor track and field, softball, swimming and diving, tennis and volleyball.

The award is named for the former statistical crew chief of the NAIA men's basketball national tournament in Kansas City, Missouri.

In 1993, the school earned its only team sport national championship when the men's basketball team earned the NAIA Division 2 title.

The school has won five national championships, including the 1973 NAIA men's basketball title, the 1981 NAIA women's tennis title and the 1989 ( NAIA ), 2002 and 2005 ( NCAA Division III ) men's golf titles.

Linfield has won four national college football titles ( NCAA Division III: 2004, NAIA Division II: 1982, 1984, 1986 ) and two in baseball ( NAIA Division II: 1966, 1971 ).

The men's hockey team won the NAIA national championship in 1976 and the NCAA Division III national championship in 2002.

The women's gymnastics program won the AIAW Championship for Division III in 1980, the NAIA national women's gymnastics championship in 1986, and National Collegiate Gymnastics Association championships in 1989 and 2007.

The men's baseball team has qualified for postseason play every year since 1987, winning the Division II NAIA national men's basketball championship in 1996.

* Indiana State was the runner-up in the 1946 and 1948 NAIA championship games.

Southern University won the NAIA baseball championship during his junior year, and Brock was selected for the United States baseball team in the 1959 Pan American Games.

The NAIA men's basketball championship is the longest-running collegiate National Championship of any sport in the United States.

In 1970, NAIA football was divided into two divisions, Division I and Division II, with a championship game played in each division.

Over the years, the NAIA championship games were played under a variety of names:

Top athletics alumni include former New York Yankee Scott Brosius, who graduated from Linfield and now is the head baseball coach at the college ; former San Diego Charger Brett Elliott, the quarterback of the 2004 championship team ; and former Miami Dolphins general manager, Randy Mueller, quarterback of Linfield's 1982 NAIA Championship squad.

Since 1992, the NAIA has sponsored a Division II championship.

Since 1992, the NAIA has sponsored a women's division II championship tournament.

The NAIA is the only international intercollegiate athletic association in North America, the NAIA DI Women's Basketball Championship, was the first NAIA Championship to feature a college from outside the United States in the championship game.

The team currently competes at the ACHA Division I level against, top level club teams, varsity club teams, and various other NAIA teams ; as the NAIA does not currently sponsor a championship in ice hockey.

In 1956 the Bobcats football team took a share of the NAIA championship in the Aluminum Bowl in Little Rock, Arkansas playing to a 0 – 0 tie on a muddy field with the Pumas of St. Joseph ’ s College from Rensselaer, Indiana.

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics ( NAIA ) held a men's national ice hockey championship from 1968 to 1984 when ice hockey was dropped as an NAIA sport.

In 1984-1985 OCU won the Midwestern City Conference baseball championship and made NCAA Division I Baseball Championship tournament before moving to the NAIA the next year.

Geneva formerly was a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics ( NAIA ) for many years, and competed in the now-defunct American Mideast Conference.

( The NAIA tournament was not held in 1944.

However, ever since the school was founded in 1919 it has fielded athletic teams ( including football ) that compete against small college NCAA / NAIA teams.

The Conference was at 11 schools until its 80th Anniversary year ( 2001-02 ) when William Penn decided to leave and switch its affiliation from the NCAA to the NAIA.

The Dakota Athletic Conference ( DAC ) was a college athletic conference affiliated with the NAIA.

McCarthy was a tight end at Baker University, a NAIA school located in Baldwin City, Kansas.

2010 NAIA passenger traffic was based on Manila International Airport Authority's website for the full-year of 2010.

On October 2, 2006, Ridder was named NAIA National Athletic Director of the Year.

Following the 2007-2008 school year, Rockhurst was recognized by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America as one of 67 colleges and universities in the nation ( among all NCAA and NAIA divisions ) to have both men's and women's soccer teams receive the NSCAA Team Academic Award.

They are not the first Canadian school to try to join the NCAA ; in 2000, local rival Simon Fraser, then exclusively an NAIA member, sought to join the NCAA but was turned down.

The trophy is named for Harlon Hill, who played at Florence State Teachers College ( now the University of North Alabama ) from 1950 to 1953, where he was named an NAIA All-American in his senior year.

In 1952, the NAIB was transformed into the NAIA, and with that came the sponsorship of additional sports such as men's golf, tennis and outdoor track and field.

Football in the NAIA was split into two divisions in 1970, based on enrollment ( Div.

The founder of the NAIB and the first executive secretary of the NAIA, Mr. Liston was a prime mover behind the men's basketball tournament.

This award was created to honor Dr. LeRoy Walker a former president of the NAIA and President emeritus of the United States Olympic Committee.

In 1997, NAIA football was again consolidated into one division.

He was named NAIA Coach of the Year in 1971.

* The cargo handling area of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport ( NAIA ) was also targeted with at least one explosive device.

In July 2011, the college was accepted into the NCAA Division II reclassification process from the NAIA to NCAA.