Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women championships

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,{{cite web

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|last = Su

|first = Mila Chin Ying

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|publisher = The Pennsylvania State University

|page = 99

|access-date = 2009-11-07

}} 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.{{cite web|title=Woodard wants place in college record book / NCAA doesn't recognize AIAW accomplishments |last=Hartsock |first=Andrew |url=http://www.kusports.com/news/w_bball/story/44530 |publisher=Lawrence Journal-World |date=March 3, 2001 |website=KUsports.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050427015014/http://www.kusports.com/news/w_bball/story/44530 |archive-date=April 27, 2005 }}{{cite web

|title=Official 2007 NCAA Women's Basketball Records Book

|editor-first=Jennifer

|editor-last=Blomenberg

|publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association

|date=November 2006

|page=18

|url=https://www.ncaa.org/library/records/basketball/w_basketball_records_book/2007/2007_w_basketball_records.pdf

|website=NCAA.org

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070615012402/http://www.ncaa.org/library/records/basketball/w_basketball_records_book/2007/2007_w_basketball_records.pdf

|archive-date=2007-06-15

}}{{cite web

|title=2005 Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships Records

|publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association

|year=2005

|url=https://www.ncaa.org/library/records/track_outdoor/2005/2005_w_odtrack_record.pdf

|website=NCAA.org

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930221640/http://www.ncaa.org/library/records/track_outdoor/2005/2005_w_odtrack_record.pdf

|archive-date=2007-09-30

}} Major college basketball's career women's scoring leader, Lynette Woodard 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 [Stiles, NCAA career scoring leader] and it's not about Lynette. It's about history. History is history."

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

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• 1970 Long Beach State (DGWS)
• 1971 Arizona State (DGWS)
• 1972 Pasadena City College (DGWS)
• 1973 Pasadena City College
• 1974 Long Beach State
• 1975 Arizona State
• 1976 Arizona State
• 1977 UCLA
• 1978 Arizona State
• 1979 Arizona State
• 1980 Arizona State
• 1981 Arizona State
• 1982 Northern Illinois

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

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

|title=Pre-NCAA Statistical Leaders and AIAW Results

|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_basketball_RB/2010/AIAW_wbkb.pdf

|publisher=NCAA

|access-date=2012-10-31

}}

{{main|AIAW women's basketball tournament}}

AIAW championship 1972–82. Previously administered by the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (CIAW).

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• 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 68-53
• 1975 Delta State (Mississippi) def. Immaculata 90-81
• 1976 Delta State def. Immaculata 69-64
• 1977 Delta State def. LSU 68-55
• 1978 UCLA def. Maryland 90-74
• 1979 Old Dominion def. Louisiana Tech 75-65
• 1980 Old Dominion def. Tennessee 68-53
• 1981 Louisiana Tech def. Tennessee 79-59
• 1982 Rutgers def. Texas 83-77

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• 1975 Phillips University (Oklahoma)
• 1976 Berry College (Georgia)
• 1977 Southeastern Louisiana
• 1978 High Point (North Carolina)
• 1979 South Carolina State
• 1980 University of Dayton
• 1981 William Penn College (Iowa)
• 1982 Francis Marion College (South Carolina)

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

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

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• 1975 Iowa State
• 1976 Iowa State
• 1977 Iowa State
• 1978 Iowa State
• 1979 North Carolina State
• 1980 North Carolina State
• 1981 Iowa State

• 1979 Air Force (Colorado)
• 1980 South Dakota State
• 1981 Utah{{cite web|url=http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/utah/sports/w-gym/auto_pdf/sectionXI.pdf|quote=The women's cross country team won the Division II AIAW Championship in 1981 (it joined the other Ute teams in Division I the following year).|page=82|title=Utah Athletics Tradition|access-date=2015-12-20|publisher=UtahUtes.com|year=2004|archive-date=September 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911161653/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/utah/sports/w-gym/auto_pdf/sectionXI.pdf|url-status=dead}}

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

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.

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• 1964 Paterson State (New Jersey)
• 1965 Paterson State
• 1966 Paterson State
• 1967 Cornell
• 1968 Cornell
• 1969 Cornell
• 1970 Hunter College (New York)
• 1971 NYU
• 1972 Cornell
• 1973 Cornell
• 1974 Cal State Fullerton
• 1975 San Jose State
• 1976 San Jose State
• 1977 San Jose State
• 1978 San Jose State
• 1979 San Jose State

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AIAW, 1980–1982:

• 1980 Penn State
• 1981 Penn State
• 1982 Yale

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.

{{main|AIAW field hockey tournament}}

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

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

• 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

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• 1970 Miami (Florida) (DGWS)
• 1971 UCLA (DGWS)
• 1972 Miami
• 1973 UNC Greensboro (two player teams)
• 1974 Rollins (Florida)
• 1975 Arizona State
• 1976 Furman
• 1977 Miami
• 1978 Miami
• 1979 SMU
• 1980 Tulsa
• 1981 Florida State
• 1982 Tulsa

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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,{{cite book|title=Before Brittney: A Legacy of Champions|first=Dr. Nancy R.|last=Goodloe|pages=10–12|publisher=FriesenPress|year=2014|isbn=978-1460230329}} crowned an individual collegiate golf national champion from 1946 through 1971, when it became an AIAW event.

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• 1981 William and Mary (Virginia)
• 1982 Weber State (Utah)

• 1981 Susan Fox, Colorado State
• 1982 Heidi Wallin, Weber State

• 1981 Sacramento State
• 1982 UNC Wilmington

• 1981 Kris Elton, Concordia College (New York)
• 1982 Luann Johnson, Meredith College (North Carolina)

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• 1969 Springfield College (Massachusetts) (DGWS)
• 1970 Southern Illinois (DGWS)
• 1971 Springfield College (DGWS)
• 1972 Springfield College (DGWS)
• 1973 Massachusetts
• 1974 Southern Illinois
• 1975 Southern Illinois
• 1976 Clarion State (Pennsylvania)
• 1977 Clarion State
• 1978 Penn State
• 1979 Cal State Fullerton
• 1980 Penn State
• 1981 Utah
• 1982 Florida

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• 1978 Centenary (Louisiana)
• 1979 Centenary
• 1980 Centenary
• 1981 Centenary
• 1982 Denver

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

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

• 1981 Delaware
• 1982 Delaware

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

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):{{cite web|title=Private email from USRowing Communications Director, January 10, 2006, Indianapolis, Indiana | url = http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h51/jnibert/photos/EmailUSWomensRowing01-10-06_zpsb1ee58fa.gif~original }}

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• 1971 Washington (first place: Vesper Boat Club)
• 1972 Washington (first place: College Boat Club)
• 1973 Radcliffe (NWRA open champion)
• 1974 Radcliffe (first place: Vesper Boat Club)
• 1975 Wisconsin (NWRA open champion)
• 1976 Wisconsin (first place: College Boat Club)
• 1977 Wisconsin (first place: Vesper Boat Club)
• 1978 Wisconsin (first place: Burnaby Boat Club)
• 1979 Yale (first place: Burnaby BC)

{{div col end}}

National Collegiate Varsity Eight Champions, 1980–1982:

• 1980 California
• 1981 Washington
• 1982 Washington (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. Washington won the varsity eight in 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, and 1988. Wisconsin won in 1986. Cornell won in 1989. Princeton won in 1990, 1993, 1994 and 1995. Boston University won in 1991 and 1992. Brown won in 1996.
• From 1997 through the present the NCAA has sponsored the women's collegiate rowing championship.

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

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

• 1980 Cortland State (New York) def. UCLA 5-1{{cite web|title=Private email from SUNY Cortland Sports Information Director, March 23, 2009, Cortland, New York | url = http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h51/jnibert/photos/EmailAIAWWomensSoccer3-23-09_zpsadc1f8cc.jpg~original}}
• 1981 North Carolina def. Central Florida 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.

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.{{cite book | title=Women's Fastpitch Softball - The Path to the Gold, An Historical Look at Women's Fastpitch in the United States | author = Mary L. Littlewood | publisher = National Fastpitch Coaches Association, Columbia, Missouri | edition = first | pages = 145, 208 |year = 1998 | isbn= 0-9664310-0-6 }} 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.

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• 1969 John F. Kennedy College (Nebraska) (DGWS)
• 1970 John F. Kennedy College (DGWS)
• 1971 John F. Kennedy College (DGWS)
• 1972 Arizona State (DGWS)
• 1973 Arizona State
• 1974 Southwest Missouri State
• 1975 Omaha
• 1976 Michigan State
• 1977 Northern Iowa
• 1978 UCLA
• 1979 Texas Woman's
• 1980 Utah State
• 1981 Utah State
• 1982 Texas A&M

{{div col end}}

• 1980 Emporia State (Kansas)
• 1981 Sacramento State
• 1982 Northern Iowa

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

• 1975 Golden West (California) def. Northeastern Colorado 22-0 (5 inn, mercy), perfect game{{cite book|title=A Series Of Their Own: History Of The Women's College World Series|first1=William|last1=Plummer|first2=Larry C.|last2=Floyd|year=2013|publisher= Turnkey Communications Inc.|location= Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States|isbn=978-0-9893007-0-4}}
• 1976 Golden West
• 1977 Golden West

• 1981 Florida State
• 1982 Florida State

After the last AIAW competition, collegiate national championships in slow-pitch softball were conducted in 1983 and 1984 by the Amateur Softball Association.{{cite book|page=95 |url=http://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=library_facpubs |work=Western Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications, Western Libraries and the Learning Commons|title=University of South Florida: The First Fifty Years, 1956-2006|first=Mark I. |last=Greenberg|publisher=University of South Florida| year=2006|access-date=2017-03-14|quote=After many winning seasons, women's slow-pitch softball won USF its first national title in 1983 when it bested Florida State University in the American (sic) Softball Association Tournament. They won again the next year before joining the NCAA's fast-pitch league in 1985.}}{{cite web|title="Remember When" at USF |url=https://fcit.usf.edu/coedu/remember.html|quote=1985 ... USF Women's Softball Team after winning two National Slow Pitch Softball Championships switches to fast pitch softball.|access-date=2017-03-14}} 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.

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• 1968 Arizona State{{cite web|access-date=2011-05-17 |url=http://thesundevils.cstv.com/genrel/081600aao.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716055046/http://thesundevils.cstv.com/genrel/081600aao.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-16 |title=Arizona State Sports Hall Of Fame Inductees - Women's Swimming }} (DGWS)
• 1969 Arizona State{{cite web|access-date=2011-05-17 |url=http://thesundevils.cstv.com/trads/asu-trads-indiv.html#anchor1971 |title=Individual National Champions By Year |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110327204121/http://thesundevils.cstv.com/trads/asu-trads-indiv.html |archive-date=2011-03-27 }}{{cite web|access-date=2011-05-17 |url=http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/c-swim/archive/asu-c-swim-history.html |title=Arizona State Swimming History |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061028150325/http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/c-swim/archive/asu-c-swim-history.html |archive-date=2006-10-28 }} (DGWS)
• 1970 Arizona State (DGWS)
• 1971 Arizona State (DGWS)
• 1972 West Chester State (Pennsylvania) (DGWS)
• 1973 Arizona State
• 1974 Arizona State
• 1975 Miami
• 1976 Miami
• 1977 Arizona State
• 1978 Arizona State
• 1979 Florida
• 1980 Stanford
• 1981 Texas
• 1982 Texas

{{div col end}}

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

• 1980 Hamline (Minnesota)
• 1981 Hamline
• 1982 Hamline

• 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. Lindenwood won in 2014.

AIAW championship 1977–82. Team championships were also bestowed from 1967{{cite web|url=https://www.tennisforum.com/threads/pre-ncaa-womens-collegiate-tennis.1378268/|title=Pre-NCAA women's collegiate tennis|website=Tennis Forum|access-date=25 May 2021}}{{cite web

|title=USTA supporting women's collegiate tennis for nearly half a century

|url=http://www.usta.com/news/fullstory.sps?iNewsID=52688&itype=&iCategoryID=163

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040206035126/http://www.usta.com/news/fullstory.sps?iNewsID=52688&itype=&iCategoryID=163

|archive-date=2004-02-06

}} to 1979{{cite web

|title=2008 USTA Yearbook - USTA Awards (Women's National Collegiate Awards)

|url=http://www.usta.com/USTA/Global/About_Us/Yearbook/Yearbook2/23286_2008_USTA_Yearbook__USTA_Awards__page_7.aspx

|access-date=2009-12-09

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421143158/http://www.usta.com/USTA/Global/About_Us/Yearbook/Yearbook2/23286_2008_USTA_Yearbook__USTA_Awards__page_7.aspx

|archive-date=2010-04-21

}} by the United States Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA). From 1958{{cite book

|title=Official USLTA Yearbook 1975

|publisher=H. O. Zimman, Inc.

|place=Lynn, Mass.

|year=1975

|page=307

}} 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.{{cite web

|title=Trinity University 2008-2009 Women's Tennis Media Guide

|url=http://www.trinity.edu/departments/athletics/WTennis/Women's%20Tennis%202009%20MG.pdf

|page=14

|access-date=2009-12-10

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528021132/http://www.trinity.edu/departments/athletics/WTennis/Women%27s%20Tennis%202009%20MG.pdf

|archive-date=2010-05-28

}}{{cite web

|title=2004 USC Women's Tennis Media Guide

|url=http://www.netitor.com/photos/schools/pac10/usc/sport/w-tennis/auto_pdf/0304guide-21-26.pdf

|page=22

|access-date=2009-12-11

}})

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• 1967 Odessa College (Texas), Stanford (tie)
• 1968 Trinity (San Antonio)
• 1969 Trinity (San Antonio)
• 1970 Odessa College
• 1971 Arizona State
• 1972 Arizona State
• 1973 Trinity (San Antonio)
• 1974 Arizona State
• 1975 Trinity (San Antonio)
• 1976 Trinity (San Antonio)
• 1977 USC ‡
• 1978 Stanford ‡
• 1979 USC
• 1980 USC
• 1981 UCLA
• 1982 Indiana

{{div col end}}

: ‡ 1977, 1978 USLTA champion: USC

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

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

• 1977 Indian River Community College

{{anchor|Indoor Track and Field}}

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

{{anchor|Outdoor Track and Field}}

DGWS and AIAW championships were held from 1969 to 1982. The first National Intercollegiate Track and Field Championship was sponsored by DGWS in the spring of 1969.

From 1982 through the present the NCAA has sponsored a women's team championship.

• 1981 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
• 1982 South Carolina State

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

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

{{div col}}

• 1969–70 Sul Ross State (Texas) def. UCLA (DGWS)
• 1970–71 Sul Ross State (Texas) def. Long Beach State (DGWS)
• 1971–72 UCLA def. Long Beach State (DGWS)
• 1972–73 Long Beach State def. Brigham Young
• 1973 Long Beach State def. Texas Woman's
• 1974 UCLA def. Hawai{{okina}}i
• 1975 UCLA def. Hawai{{okina}}i
• 1976 USC def. UCLA
• 1977 USC def. Hawai{{okina}}i
• 1978 Utah State def. UCLA
• 1979 Hawai{{okina}}i def. Utah State
• 1980 USC def. Pacific
• 1981 Texas def. Portland State

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• 1975 Texas Lutheran
• 1976 Texas Lutheran
• 1977 UC Riverside
• 1978 Florida Technological University (UCF)
• 1979 Hawai{{okina}}i-Hilo
• 1980 Cal State Northridge
• 1981 Hawai{{okina}}i-Hilo

• 1979 Azusa Pacific (California)
• 1980 Sacramento State
• 1981 La Verne (California)

• 1974 Eastern Arizona College
• 1975 Ricks College (Idaho)
• 1976 Mesa Community College (Arizona)
• 1977 Santa Ana College (California)

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.{{cite web|title=Intercollegiate Bowling Past Champions |url=http://www.bowl.com/tournaments/college/ibc/pastchampions.aspx |access-date=2007-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061206123909/http://bowl.com/tournaments/college/ibc/pastchampions.aspx |archive-date=2006-12-06 |url-status=live }}

{{main|List of college athletics championship game outcomes#Bowling|l1=Women's collegiate bowling champions (1975 - present)}}

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• Virginia Hunt, "Governance of Women's Intercollegiate Athletics: an Historical Perspective," (Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Carolina - Greensboro, 1976), Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms (1977), 1-319
• Suzanne Willey, "The Governance of Women's Intercollegiate Athletics: Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), 1976–1982," (Thesis (P.E.D.), Indiana University, 1996), Eugene, Oregon: Microform Publications (1997), 1-351
• [http://www.usfieldhockey.com/champions/aiaw_champs.htm USA Field Hockey]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928035104/http://womensbasketballonline.com/history/timeline.pdf Women's Basketball Timeline 1890s-Present] (pdf)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20091020050332/http://geocities.com/Colosseum/1244/index.html Women's College Basketball Championship History Page] ( 2009-10-24)
• [http://www.bowl.com/tournaments/college/ibc/pastchampions.aspx USBC, Intercollegiate Team Championships]
• [http://www.niwfa.com/ NIFWA Team Champions]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20051110224123/http://www.wm.edu/tenniscenter/history.html Intercollegiate Tennis Association - The Milestones in Women's Collegiate Tennis]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20041112035607/http://uclabruins.collegesports.com/genrel/25th-anniv-w-volley.html The History of UCLA Women's Volleyball]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20051101223250/http://www.uwbadgers.com/history/wbb/history_summary.pdf UW Women's Sports History, 1974–2004] (pdf-large)
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• [https://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]
• [http://slubillikens.collegesports.com/sports/w-volley/mtt/nolen_marilyn00.html Bio: Marilyn Nolen: Women's Volleyball]
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