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 ...

was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women’s athletics and to administer national championships. During its existence, the AIAW and its predecessor, the Division for Girls' and Women's Sports (DGWS), recognized via these championships the teams and individuals who excelled at the highest level of women's collegiate competition. After the 1981–82 academic year, the AIAW discontinued sponsorship of national championships and later was legally dissolved. At this time, the NCAA assumed sole sanctioning authority of its member schools' women's sports programs.

Governing bodies of women's collegiate athletics through 1982

The Division of Girls and Women's Sports (DGWS), a division of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (AAHPER), was the first nationally recognized collegiate organization for women’s athletics and the forerunner of the AIAW. The Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (CIAW) operated under the auspices of the DGWS. The CIAW governed from 1966 until February, 1972, and conducted championships in eight sports. During the 1972–73 season, the first full academic year of its operation, the AIAW offered its first eight national championships in the same eight sports (badminton, basketball, golf, gymnastics, softball, swimming & diving, track & field, and volleyball). In years when small-college championships (Division II or III) were not contested, and in sports without divisions, there was open competition among eligible teams. Except as noted below, the NCAA sponsored its first women's championship in each sport in the 1981–82 academic year. Individual athletic programs and, in some cases, individual teams within a program were permitted to choose to participate in either the AIAW or NCAA competitions (or both in a few instances). The NCAA has never sponsored championship competition in badminton, synchronized swimming, or slow-pitch softball. In the sports of fencing, lacrosse, rowing and tennis, for completeness, the champions listed below include those bestowed by each sport's governing body prior to the beginning of AIAW championships in those sports. Compilations of collegiate records by the NCAA, continuing into 2006, have ignored or segregated the contributions of AIAW athletes. Major college basketball's career women's scoring leader,

Lynette Woodard Lynette Woodard (born August 12, 1959) is a retired American basketball Hall of Fame player and former head women's basketball coach at Winthrop University. Woodard made history by becoming the first female member of the Harlem Globetrotters an ...

of the University of Kansas, speaking on the exclusion of AIAW statistics, said, "Basketball doesn't just start with when the NCAA blessed it. And it's not about Jackie tiles, NCAA career scoring leaderand it's not about Lynette. It's about history. History is history."

Sports with AIAW/DGWS team championships by year

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AIAW championship 1973–82. Previously administered by the Division of Girls' and Women's Sports (DGWS). *1970

Long Beach State California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) is a public research university in Long Beach, California. The 322-acre campus is the second largest of the 23-school California State University system (CSU) and one of the largest universities i ...

''(DGWS)'' *1971

Arizona State Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the U ...

''(DGWS)'' *1972 Pasadena City College ''(DGWS)'' *1973 Pasadena City College *1974

*1975

*1976

*1977

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 St ...

*1978

*1979

*1980

*1981

*1982 Northern Illinois After the last AIAW competition, collegiate badminton assumed the authority of its own national tournament committee in conjunction with the United States Badminton Association. The USBA continued the sponsorship of national collegiate championships from 1983. Wisconsin won in 1983.

won all ten titles from 1984 through 1993, when ASU dropped badminton.

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Pre-NCAA statistics, based on AIAW Archives, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries.

Division I (no division 1968–1974, Large College 1974–1979)

AIAW championship 1972–82. Previously administered by the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (CIAW). *1969 West Chester (Pennsylvania) def. Western Carolina 65-39 ''(CIAW invitational tournament, six player format)'' *1970 Cal State-Fullerton def. West Chester 50-46 ''(CIAW invitational tournament, six player format)'' *1971 Mississippi State College for Women def. West Chester 57-55 ''(CIAW qualification tournament)'' *1972 Immaculata (Pennsylvania) def. West Chester 52-48 *1973 Immaculata def. Queens (New York) 59-52 *1974 Immaculata def.

Mississippi College Mississippi College (MC) is a private Baptist university in Clinton, Mississippi. Founded in 1826, MC is the second-oldest Baptist-affiliated college or university in the United States and the oldest college or university in Mississippi. Histor ...

68-53 *1975 Delta State (Mississippi) def. Immaculata 90-81 *1976 Delta State def. Immaculata 69-64 *1977 Delta State def.

LSU Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisian ...

68-55 *1978

def. Maryland 90-74 *1979

Old Dominion Old Dominion most commonly refers to: *The Old Dominion, a nickname for the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia **Colony of Virginia *Old Dominion University, a public university in Norfolk, Virginia **Old Dominion Monarchs, the athletic teams represen ...

def.

Louisiana Tech Louisiana Tech University (Louisiana Tech, La. Tech, or simply Tech) is a public research university in Ruston, Louisiana. It is part of the University of Louisiana System and classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activi ...

75-65 *1980

def. Tennessee 68-53 *1981

def. Tennessee 79-59 *1982

Rutgers Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was a ...

def. Texas 83-77

Division II (Small College 1974–1979)

*1975 Phillips University (Oklahoma) *1976

Berry College Berry College is a private liberal arts college in the Mount Berry community adjacent to Rome, Georgia. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Berry College was founded on values based on Christian princip ...

(Georgia) *1977 Southeastern Louisiana *1978 High Point (North Carolina) *1979

South Carolina State South Carolina State University (SCSU or SC State) is a public, historically black, land-grant university in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States. It is the only public, historically black land-grant institution in South Carolina, is a memb ...

*1980 University of Dayton *1981 William Penn College (Iowa) *1982 Francis Marion College (South Carolina)

Division III

*1980 Worcester State College (Massachusetts) *1981 Wisconsin–La Crosse *1982 Concordia College (Minnesota)

Junior/Community College

*1973 Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College *1974 Anderson College (South Carolina) *1975 Anderson College *1976 Anderson College *1977 Anderson College

Cross Country

Division I (no division 1975–1979)

*1975

Iowa State Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the n ...

*1976

*1977

*1978

*1979

North Carolina State North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The university ...

*1980

*1981

Division II

*1979

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(Colorado) *1980 South Dakota State *1981 Utah

Division III

*1979 Cal State-Hayward *1980 Cal State-Hayward *1981 College of St. Thomas (Minnesota)

Fencing

AIAW championship 1980–82. Previously administered by the National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association. The IWFA became the National IWFA in 1964 and called for a National Championship. *1964 Paterson State (New Jersey) *1965 Paterson State *1966 Paterson State *1967

Cornell Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

*1968

*1969

*1970

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admin ...

(New York) *1971 NYU *1972

*1973

*1974

Cal State Fullerton California State University, Fullerton (CSUF or Cal State Fullerton) is a public university in Fullerton, California. With a total enrollment of more than 41,000, it has the largest student body of the 23-campus California State University (CSU) ...

*1975

San Jose State San José State University (San Jose State or SJSU) is a public university in San Jose, California. Established in 1857, SJSU is the oldest public university on the West Coast and the founding campus of the California State University (CSU) ...

*1976

*1977

*1978

*1979

AIAW, 1980–1982: *1980 Penn State *1981 Penn State *1982

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 worl ...

The NIWFA has continued to sponsor national collegiate championships from 1983 through the present. From 1990 through the present the NCAA has sponsored a combined men's and women's team championship.

Field Hockey

Division I (no division 1975–1979)

Co-sponsored 1975–78 by the United States Field Hockey Association (USFHA). *1975 West Chester (Pennsylvania) def. Ursinus (Pennsylvania) 2-1 (penalty strokes) *1976 West Chester def. Ursinus 2-0 *1977 West Chester def. Ursinus 1-0 *1978 West Chester def. Delaware 3-2 *1979

def. Penn State 2-0 *1980 Penn State def. California 2-1 *1981 Penn State def. Temple (Pennsylvania) 5-1

Division II

*1979 Southwest Missouri State def. Colgate (New York) 2-0 *1980 La Salle (Pennsylvania) def. Southwest Missouri State 3-2 *1981

Lock Haven Lock Haven is the county seat of Clinton County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Located near the confluence of the West Branch Susquehanna River and Bald Eagle Creek, it is the principal city of the Lock Haven Micropolitan Statistical Area ...

(Pennsylvania) def.

Syracuse Syracuse may refer to: Places Italy *Syracuse, Sicily, or spelled as ''Siracusa'' *Province of Syracuse United States *Syracuse, New York **East Syracuse, New York **North Syracuse, New York * Syracuse, Indiana * Syracuse, Kansas * Syracuse, Mi ...

2-0

Division III

*1979 Shippensburg (Pennsylvania) def. Franklin & Marshall (Pennsylvania) 1-0 *1980 Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) def. Hartwick (New York) 1-0 (ps) *1981 Bloomsburg (Pennsylvania) def. Lynchburg (Virginia) 3-2

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping w ...

Division I (no division 1970–1980)

Team

*1970 Miami (Florida) ''(DGWS)'' *1971

''(DGWS)'' *1972 Miami *1973

UNC Greensboro The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG or UNC Greensboro) is a public research university in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina system. UNCG, like all members of the UNC system, is a stand-al ...

(two player teams) *1974 Rollins (Florida) *1975

*1976 Furman *1977 Miami *1978 Miami *1979 SMU *1980

Tulsa Tulsa () is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with ...

*1981

Florida State Florida State University (FSU) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the sta ...

*1982

Individual

Gladys Palmer from Ohio State University initiated the women's intercollegiate golf championship in 1941. After World War II, the DGWS (known as the National Section on Women's Sports until 1957) crowned an individual collegiate golf national champion from 1946 through 1971, when it became an AIAW event.

Division II

Team

*1981

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(Virginia) *1982

Weber State Weber State University (pronounced ) is a public university in Ogden, Utah. It was founded in 1889 as Weber Stake Academy. It is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. History Weber State University was founded ...

(Utah)

Individual

*1981 Susan Fox,

Colorado State Colorado State University (Colorado State or CSU) is a public land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. Colorado State University is classified among "R1: ...

*1982 Heidi Wallin,

Division III

Team

*1981

Sacramento State California State University, Sacramento (CSUS, Sacramento State, or informally Sac State) is a public university in Sacramento, California. Founded in 1947 as Sacramento State College, it is the eleventh oldest school in the 23-campus California ...

*1982

UNC Wilmington The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW or UNC Wilmington) is a public research university in Wilmington, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina System and enrolls 17,499 undergraduate and graduate students eac ...

Individual

*1981 Kris Elton, Concordia College (New York) *1982 Luann Johnson,

Meredith College Meredith College is a private women's liberal arts college and coeducational graduate school in Raleigh, North Carolina. As of 2021 Meredith enrolls approximately 1,500 women in its undergraduate programs and 300 men and women in its graduate ...

(North Carolina)

Gymnastics

Division I (no division 1968–1977, Large College 1977–1979)

*1969

Springfield College Springfield College is a private college in Springfield, Massachusetts. It confers undergraduate and graduate degrees. It is known as the birthplace of basketball because the sport was invented there in 1891 by Canadian-American instructor ...

(Massachusetts) ''(DGWS)'' *1970 Southern Illinois ''(DGWS)'' *1971

''(DGWS)'' *1972

''(DGWS)'' *1973 Massachusetts *1974 Southern Illinois *1975 Southern Illinois *1976 Clarion State (Pennsylvania) *1977 Clarion State *1978 Penn State *1979

*1980 Penn State *1981 University of Utah *1982 Florida

Division II (Small College 1977–1979)

*1978

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(Louisiana) *1979

*1980

*1981

*1982 Denver

Division III

*1980 Wisconsin–Oshkosh *1981 UC Davis *1982 Gustavus Adolphus College (Minnesota)

Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...

Division I

AIAW championship 1981–82. Administered 1978–80 by the United States Women's Lacrosse Association (USWLA). *1978 Penn State def. Maryland 9-3 *1979 Penn State def. Massachusetts 8-5 *1980 Penn State def. Maryland 3-1 *1981 Maryland def. Ursinus 5-4 *1982 Temple (Pennsylvania) def. Maryland 3-2

Division II

*1981 Delaware *1982 Delaware

Division III

*1981 Trenton State (New Jersey) *1982 Millersville State (Pennsylvania)

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 att ...

Only AIAW championship was in 1982. 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 USRowing, 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 in varsity eights. NWRA Open Eights top college finishers, 1971–1979 (champion in parentheses): *1971

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(first place:

Vesper Boat Club The Vesper Boat Club is an amateur rowing club located at #10 Boathouse Row in the historic Boathouse Row of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1865 as the Washington Barge Club, the Club changed its name to Vesper Boat Club in 1870. Vesper' ...

) *1972

(first place:

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) *1973 Radcliffe (NWRA open champion) *1974 Radcliffe (first place:

) *1975 Wisconsin (NWRA open champion) *1976 Wisconsin (first place:

) *1977 Wisconsin (first place:

) *1978 Wisconsin (first place: Burnaby Boat Club) *1979

(first place: Burnaby BC) National Collegiate Varsity Eight Champions, 1980–1982: *1980 California *1981

*1982

(AIAW Champion) ''Additional notes:'' * A medalist in the 1975 NWRA regatta stated that the 1975 regatta was the 10th annual national women's rowing championship, as emblazoned on T-shirts from the event. * One citation from 1996 states, "(The Cal Women's Crew) in 1979 finished second in the U.S. National Collegiate Championships. ... The 1980 Cal Women's Crew dominated the National Championships, ... They won the varsity eight, Cal's first ever varsity national championship in any women's sport." * One citation from 1999 states, "1980. First Women’s Collegiate Rowing Championship held in Oak Ridge, TN." * One citation from 2001 states, " Just seven years after its first race, the (Yale) women's team claimed its first national championship in 1979." * After the last AIAW competition, the National Collegiate Rowing Championship was held from 1983 through 1996.

won the varsity eight in 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, and 1988. Wisconsin won in 1986.

won in 1989. Princeton won in 1990, 1993, 1994 and 1995.

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with ...

won in 1991 and 1992.

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won in 1996. * From 1997 through the present the NCAA has sponsored the women's collegiate rowing championship.

Skiing

*1977 Dartmouth (New Hampshire) *1978 Utah *1979 Middlebury (Vermont) *1980 Middlebury *1981 Vermont *1982

Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the ...

From 1983 through the present the NCAA has sponsored a combined men's and women's team championship.

Soccer

*1980 Cortland State (New York) def.

5-1 *1981 North Carolina def.

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1-0 The 1980 tournament was not officially sanctioned by the AIAW. North Carolina, Harvard, Texas A&M, UCLA, Cortland State, Northern Colorado and Colorado State participated. One reason for the tournament was to earn an official sanction for the sport, by complying with and fulfilling guidelines set forth by the AIAW. From Fall 1982 through the present the NCAA has sponsored a women's championship.

Fastpitch softball

Division I (no division 1969–1979)

Women's College World Series From 1969 to 1982, the women's collegiate softball championship was also known as the ''Women's College World Series'' and was promoted as such. The Women's College World Series was played in Omaha, Nebraska, through 1979 and in Norman, Oklahoma, during 1980–1982. AIAW championship 1973–82. Previously administered by the Amateur Softball Association and sanctioned by DGWS from 1969 to 1972. Co-sponsored by the AIAW and ASA through 1979. *

1969 This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...

John F. Kennedy College John F. Kennedy College was founded in 1965 in Wahoo, Nebraska, United States, one of six colleges started by small-town businessmen on the model of Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa. The college was named after President John F. Kennedy. Du ...

(Nebraska) ''(DGWS)'' *

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and ...

''(DGWS)'' *

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Jan ...

''(DGWS)'' *

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...

''(DGWS)'' *

1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...

Southwest Missouri State *

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. ...

Omaha *

1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...

Michigan State *

1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Re ...

Northern Iowa Iowa () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wiscon ...

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 � ...

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

Texas Woman's *

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – In ...

Utah State Utah State University (USU or Utah State) is a public land-grant research university in Logan, Utah. It is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. With nearly 20,000 students living on or near campus, USU is Utah's ...

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., U ...

Texas A&M Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public university, public, Land-grant university, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M Unive ...

Division II

*1980 Emporia State (Kansas) *1981

*1982

Division III

*1980 Cal State Chico *1981 Eastern Connecticut State *1982 Bloomsburg State (Pennsylvania)

Junior/Community College

*1975 Golden West (California) def. Northeastern Colorado 22-0 (5 inn, mercy), perfect game *1976 Golden West *1977 Golden West

Slowpitch Softball

After the last AIAW competition, collegiate national championships in slow-pitch softball were conducted in

1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning ...

and 1984 by the Amateur Softball Association. The University of South Florida won both. It appears that most of the college women's slow-pitch teams at that time were from Florida and North Carolina.

Swimming and Diving

Division I (no division 1968–1976, Large College 1977–1979)

*1968

''(DGWS)'' *1969

''(DGWS)'' *1970

''(DGWS)'' *1971

''(DGWS)'' *1972 West Chester State (Pennsylvania) ''(DGWS)'' *1973

*1974

*1975 Miami *1976 Miami *1977

*1978

*1979 Florida *1980 Stanford *1981 Texas *1982 Texas

Division II (Small College 1977–1979)

*1977 Clarion State (Pennsylvania) *1978 Clarion State *1979 Nevada-Reno *1980 Clarion State *1981 Clarion State *1982 Clarion State

Division III

*1980 Hamline (Minnesota) *1981 Hamline *1982 Hamline

Synchronized swimming

*1977 Ohio State *1978 Ohio State *1979 Ohio State *1980 Ohio State, Arizona (tie) *1981 Arizona *1982 Ohio State United States Synchronized Swimming has continued to sponsor national collegiate championships from 1983 through the present. From 1983 through 2004, Ohio State won 19 of the 22 titles. Arizona won in 1984. Stanford won in 1998, 1999, 2005 through 2008, 2013 and 2016. Ohio State won in 2009 through 2012, and 2015.

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won in 2014.

Tennis

Division I (no division 1968–1976, Large College 1977–1979)

AIAW championship 1977–82. Team championships were also bestowed from 1967 to 1979 by the United States Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA). From 1958 to 1979, the USLTA also crowned individual collegiate national champions in singles and doubles. (The 1979 USLTA team award appears to have been based on the AIAW results.) *1967

Odessa College Odessa College is a public junior college in Odessa, Texas. The college serves the people of Ector County and the Permian Basin. It was established in 1946 and enrolle8,024 studentsin Fall 2021 and 7,679 students in Spring 2022 in its universi ...

(Texas), Stanford (tie) *1968 Trinity (San Antonio) *1969 Trinity (San Antonio) *1970

*1971

*1972

*1973 Trinity (San Antonio) *1974

*1975 Trinity (San Antonio) *1976 Trinity (San Antonio) *1977 USC ‡ *1978 Stanford ‡ *1979 USC *1980 USC *1981

*1982 Indiana : ‡ ''1977, 1978 USLTA champion: USC''

Division II (Small College 1977–1979)

*1977 Tennessee-Chattanooga *1978 Tennessee-Chattanooga *1979 Tennessee-Chattanooga *1980 Cal Poly-Pomona *1981 Cal Poly-Pomona *1982 Richmond

Division III

*1980 UC Davis *1981 UC Davis *1982 Mary Washington (Virginia)

Junior/Community College

*1977

Indian River Community College Indian River State College (IRSC) is a public college with a main campus in Fort Pierce, Florida. It is part of the Florida College System and serves the counties of Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee and St. Lucie on the Treasure Coast region ...

Indoor Track and Field

*1980

Texas-El Paso The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a public research university in El Paso, Texas. It is a member of the University of Texas System. UTEP is the second-largest university in the United States to have a majority Mexican American stude ...

*1981 Virginia *1982 Nebraska From 1983 through the present the NCAA has sponsored a women's team championship.

Outdoor Track and Field

Division I (no division 1969–1980)

AIAW championship 1972–82. The first National Intercollegiate Track and Field Championship was sponsored by DGWS in the spring of 1969. *1969 Texas Woman's ''(DGWS)'' *1970 Illinois ''(DGWS)'' *1971 Texas Woman's ''(DGWS)'' *1972 Cal State-Hayward *1973 Texas Woman's *1974

Prairie View A & M Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU or PV) is a public historically black land-grant university in Prairie View, Texas. Founded in 1876, it is one of Texas's two land-grant universities and the second oldest public institution of higher learnin ...

(Texas) *1975

*1976

*1977

*1978

Cal State Northridge California State University, Northridge (CSUN or Cal State Northridge) is a public university in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. With a total enrollment of 38,551 students (as of Fall 2021), it has the second largest u ...

*1979

*1980

*1981 Tennessee *1982 Texas

Division II

*1981 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo *1982

Division III

*1981 Cal State-Hayward *1982 Wisconsin–La Crosse

Volleyball

Division I (no division 1969–1974, Large College 1975–1978)

AIAW championship 1973–82. Previously administered by the Division of Girls' and Women's Sports (DGWS). *1969–70 Sul Ross State (Texas) def.

''(DGWS)'' *1970–71 Sul Ross State (Texas) def.

'' (DGWS)'' *1971–72

def.

'' (DGWS)'' *1972–73

def.

Brigham Young Brigham Young (; June 1, 1801August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), from 1847 until his death in 1877. During his time as chu ...

*1973

def. Texas Woman's *1974

def. Hawaii *1975

def. Hawaii *1976 USC def.

*1977 USC def. Hawaii *1978

def.

*1979 Hawaii def.

*1980 USC def. Pacific *1981 Texas def.

Portland State Portland State University (PSU) is a public research university in Portland, Oregon. It was founded in 1946 as a post-secondary educational institution for World War II veterans. It evolved into a four-year college over the following two decade ...

Division II (Small College 1975–1978)

*1975 Texas Lutheran *1976 Texas Lutheran *1977

UC Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban dis ...

*1978 Florida Technological University *1979 Hawaii-Hilo *1980

*1981 Hawaii-Hilo

Division III

*1979

Azusa Pacific Azusa Pacific University (APU) is a private, evangelical Christian university in Azusa, California. The university was founded in 1899, with classes opening on March 3, 1900, in Whittier, California, and began offering degrees in 1939. The univ ...

(California) *1980

*1981 La Verne (California)

Junior/Community College

*1974

Eastern Arizona College Eastern Arizona College (EAC), is a community college in Graham County, Arizona. The main campus is in Thatcher, with satellite locations in Gila County, and Greenlee County. It is the oldest community college in Arizona and the only communi ...

*1975

Ricks College Ricks may refer to: People * Andre Ricks (born 1996), American basketball player * Bob Ricks (21st century), American police chief * Christopher Ricks (born 1933), British literary critic and scholar * Doug Ricks, American politician and membe ...

(Idaho) *1976 Mesa Community College (Arizona) *1977 Santa Ana College (California)

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), thoug ...

The USBC (formerly ABC/Women’s International Bowling Congress) has conducted a women's intercollegiate bowling championship annually since 1975, although it was not an AIAW sport.

Notes

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(AIAW), 1976–1982," (Thesis (P.E.D.), Indiana University, 1996), Eugene, Oregon: Microform Publications (1997), 1-351
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* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20060520150551/http://www.longbeachstate.com/local/sid/features0405/volleyball121504.htm Long Beach Press-Telegram,"It All Started in Long Beach," 12/15/2004
Bio: Marilyn Nolen: Women's Volleyball

Cougar Volleyball 99
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BRO Forums, "UCLA: 97 NCAA titles and counting...."
''(Caution: before referencing, confirm a second source)''

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20051130044945/http://www.twu.edu/athletics/HOF2002.htm Texas Woman's University Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2002
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USTA supporting women’s collegiate tennis for nearly half a century

Alabama Women's Golf 2003-04, page 7
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Rowing (From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978))

Men's & Women's Skiing Past Individual Champions

Men's & Women's Fencing Past Champions

Women's Bowling Past Champions

Women's Soccer Past Champions

Men's & Women's Track & Field Indoor Champions

Seminole Softball 2004 Media Guide, p 66
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National Fastpitch Coaches Association

Wisconsin Women's Rowing 2005–2006 Media Guide - History and Results
''(pdf)''
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''(pdf)''
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''(pdf)''

Cornell Big Red - On Campus in the Nineties

Colorado College Women's Soccer History

History of Penn State Women's Lacrosse
''(pdf)''
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''(pdf)''
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