The National Athletic Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (NAASCU) is an athletic association of

college A college (Latin: ''collegium'') may be a tertiary educational institution (sometimes awarding degrees), part of a collegiate university, an institution offering vocational education, a further education institution, or a secondary sc ...

s and

universities A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...

in the

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

. It was established in 2001. NAASCU sports are men's, women's and junior's

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

, men's and women's

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

table tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of ...

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

taekwondo Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ...

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...

billiards Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as . Cue sports, a category of stic ...

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...

, beach handball,

street dance Street dance is an umbrella term for a large number of social dance styles such as: breakdancing, popping, Locking (dance), locking, house dance, waacking, voguing, etc. Social dance styles have many accompanying steps and foundations, created o ...

and cheerdance.

Member institutions

;Notes

Former members

left in 2002 *Our Lady of Lourdes Technological Institute (OLLTI Saints), Quezon City left in 2003 *

Arellano University Arellano University (AU) is a private university, private, nonsectarian university located in Manila, the Philippines. It was founded in 1938 as a law school by Florentino Cayco Sr., the first Filipino Undersecretary of Public Instruction. The u ...

( AU Flaming Arrows/Chiefs), Manila * Angeles University Foundation ( AUF Great Danes), Pampanga * Las Piñas College (LPC Blue Lions), Las Piñas left in 2004 *World Citi Colleges (WCC Vikings), Quezon City left in 2011 * San Sebastian College - Recoletos de Cavite (SSC-RC Baycats), Cavite left in 2012 *Informatics International University (IIU Icons), Quezon City * University of Manila (UM Hawks), Manila left in 2013 * STI College (STI Olympians), Manila *Trace College (TC Stallions), Los Baños, Laguna left in 2015 * Central Colleges of the Philippines (CCP Bobcats), Quezon City *Diliman College (Diliman College Senators/Blue Dragons), Quezon City *

Polytechnic University of the Philippines The Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP; ) is a public, coeducational, research university in Santa Mesa, Manila, Philippines. It was founded on 19 October 1904, as the Manila Business School (MBS) and as part of Manila's public sch ...

(PUP Mighty Maroons), Manila * Santa Isabel College (Santa Isabel Isabelans), Taft Ave., Manila left in 2016 * Centro Escolar University (CEU Scorpions), Mendiola,

Manila Manila, officially the City of Manila, is the Capital of the Philippines, capital and second-most populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City, with a population of 1,846,513 people in 2020. Located on the eastern shore of Manila Bay on ...

left in 2017 * Eulogio "Amang" Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology (EARIST Red Fox), Sampaloc,

left in 2018 * Colegio De San Lorenzo (CDSL Griffins),

Quezon City Quezon City (, ; ), also known as the City of Quezon and Q.C. (read and pronounced in Filipino language, Filipino as Kyusi), is the richest and List of cities in the Philippines, most populous city in the Philippines. According to the 2020 c ...

* Lyceum of Subic Bay (LSB Sharks), Olongapo left in 2019 *De Ocampo Memorial College (DOMC Cobras), Sta. Mesa,

* National Teachers College (NTC Bearers),

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* Rizal Technological University (RTU Blue Thunder),

Mandaluyong Mandaluyong ( ; ), officially the City of Mandaluyong (, ), is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly-urbanized city in the Metro Manila, National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a popula ...

Membership timeline

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:850 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:2000 till:2024 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:0 left:0 bottom:50 top:0 Colors = id:barcolor id:line value:pink id:bg value:white PlotData= width:15 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from bar:1 color:powderblue from:2001 till:2012 text: AMA (2001-12, 2013-14, 2016-present) bar:1 color:powderblue from:2013 till:2014 text: bar:1 color:powderblue from:2016 till:end text: bar:2 color:powderblue from:2001 till:2003 text: Arellano (2001-03) bar:3 color:powderblue from:2001 till:2003 text: AUF (2001-03) bar:4 color:powderblue from:2001 till:2003 text: LPC (2001-02) bar:5 color:powderblue from:2001 till:2002 text:Lourdes Tech (2001-02) bar:6 color:powderblue from:2001 till:end text:St. Claire (2001-present) bar:7 color:powderblue from:2001 till:2002 text: TUP (2001-02) bar:8 color:powderblue from:2001 till:2011 text: UMak (2001-11, 2014-15, 2023-present) bar:8 color:powderblue from:2014 till:2015 text: bar:8 color:powderblue from:2023 till:end text: bar:9 color:powderblue from:2001 till:2012 text: UM (2001-12) bar:10 color:yellow from:2002 till:end text:

CUP A cup is an open-top vessel (container) used to hold liquids for drinking, typically with a flattened hemispherical shape, and often with a capacity of about . Cups may be made of pottery (including porcelain), glass, metal, wood, stone, pol ...

(2002-present) bar:11 color:dullyellow from:2003 till:2004 text:World Citi Colleges (2003-04) bar:12 color:pink from:2003 till:2016 text: CEU (2003-16) bar:13 color:pink from:2003 till:2008 text: Holy Angel (2003-08, 2017-present) bar:14 color:orange from:2004 till:end text: New Era (2004-present) bar:15 color:orange from:2004 till:2013 text: STI (2004-13) bar:16 color:lightorange from:2006 till:2010 text: SSC-R Cavite (2006-10) bar:17 color:blue from:2008 till:2012 text:Informatics (2008-12) bar:18 color:blue from:2008 till:2010 text: Lyceum Subic Bay (2008-10, 2014-15, 2016-2018) bar:18 color:blue from:2014 till:2015 text: bar:18 color:blue from:2016 till:end text: bar:19 color:green from:2009 till:end text: OLFU (2009-present) bar:20 color:red from:2011 till:2013 text:Trace College (2011-13) bar:21 color:lavender from:2013 till:2015 text: PUP (2013-present) bar:22 color:lavender from:2013 till:2019 text: RTU (2013-2019) bar:23 color:tan1 from:2014 till:2015 text: CCP (2014-15) bar:24 color:tan1 from:2014 till:2015 text:Diliman College (2014-15) bar:25 color:tan1 from:2014 till:2015 text: Santa Isabel (2014-15) bar:26 color:tan1 from:2014 till:end text: PCU (2014-present) bar:27 color:tan2 from:2016 till:2017 text: Earist (2016-17) bar:28 color:tan2 from:2016 till:2019 text:De Ocampo (2016-2019) bar:29 color:tan2 from:2016 till:end text: Enderun (2016-present) bar:30 color:tan2 from:2016 till:end text: MLQU (2016-present) bar:31 color:tan2 from:2016 till:end text:PMMS (2016-present) bar:32 color:tan2 from:2016 till:end text: San Lorenzo (2016-2018) bar:33 color:tan2 from:2017 till:end text: De La Salle Araneta University (2017-present) bar:34 color:tan2 from:2017 till:end text:Saint Francis of Assisi College (2017-present) bar:35 color:tan2 from:2023 till:end text: PNPA (2023-present) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:1 start:2000

Champions

Basketball

References

External links

NAASCU

NAASCU at Wordpress
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