National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
AbbreviationNAIA
Formation1940; 84 years ago (1940)
Legal statusAssociation
Headquarters120 W. 12th Street, Suite 700
Kansas City, Missouri 64105[1]
Region served
United States, Canada, and U.S. Virgin Islands
Membership
241
President
Jim Carr[2]
Lynn Parman
Main organ
NAIA Council of Presidents
Websitenaia.org

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) established in 1940, is a college athletics association for colleges and universities in North America. Most colleges and universities in the NAIA offer athletic scholarships to their student athletes. Around $1.3 billion in athletic scholarship financial aid is awarded to student athletes annually.

For the 2023–24 season, it had 241 member institutions,[3] of which two are in British Columbia, one in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the rest in the continental United States, with over 83,000 student-athletes participating.[4] The NAIA, whose headquarters is in Kansas City, Missouri,[5] sponsors 28 national championships. CBS Sports Network, formerly called CSTV, serves as the national media outlet for the NAIA.[6] In 2014, ESPNU began carrying the NAIA Football National Championship.

  1. ^ "NAIA Staff Directory". Naia.org. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  2. ^ Staff Directory at NARA.org, 12 Oct 2022
  3. ^ "2023-24 NAIA Member Institutions" (PDF). National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. Retrieved January 28, 2022.
  4. ^ "NAIA Member Schools". NAIA. Retrieved January 5, 2019.
  5. ^ "NAIA Headquarters Relocating to Downtown Kansas City, Mo". NAIA. June 27, 2007. Archived from the original on August 14, 2008. Retrieved December 23, 2017.
  6. ^ "NAIA and CBS College Sports Network Agree to Broadcast Deal". NAIA. October 14, 2008. Archived from the original on April 8, 2009. Retrieved December 23, 2017.