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As you can see there are many sports available, and within each sport, there are many divisions for the different skills levels of our students
As you can see there are many sports available, and within each sport, there are many divisions for the different skills levels of our students
NCAA Division I (National Collegiate Athletic Association)
Division I member institutions have to sponsor at least seven sports for men and seven for women with two team sports for each gender. Each playing season has to be represented by each gender as well. For sports other than football and basketball, Division I schools must play 100 percent of the minimum number of contests against Division I opponents. Division I schools must meet minimum financial aid awards for their athletics program, and there are maximum financial aid awards for each sport that a Division I school cannot exceed. The biggest universities with the biggest budgets and the best players play in this division (*).
NCAA Division II
Division II institutions have to sponsor at least five sports for men and five for women, (or four for men and six for women), with two team sports for each gender, and each playing season represented by each gender. There are not attendance requirements for football, or arena game requirements for basketball. There are maximum financial aid awards for each sport that a Division II school must not exceed. Division II teams usually feature a number of local or in-state student-athletes. Many Division II student-athletes pay for school through a combination of scholarship money, grants, student loans and employment earnings. Size and budget of these universities are usually a level below Division I, but they are very competitive and some of them could even be more competitive than some Division I teams (*).
NCAA Division III
Division III institutions have to sponsor at least five sports for men and five for women, with two team sports for each gender, and each playing season represented by each gender. There are minimum contest and participant minimums for each sport. Division III athletics features student-athletes who receive no financial aid related to their athletic ability and athletic departments are staffed and funded like any other department in the university. Division III athletics departments place special importance on the impact of athletics on the participants rather than on the spectators (*).
NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics)
The NAIA is a much smaller association of schools than the NCAA. But the NAIA is a formidable association, including more than 260 colleges and universities and representing 60,000 student-athletes. The NAIA also oversees 23 national championships in 13 different sports. And while the overall level of competition is not what you would find at NCAA Division I schools from which the majority of pro athletes hail, NAIA sports are generally considered to be on par with NCAA Division II schools. It is true, NAIA schools do not sell as many sweatshirts and hats as NCAA affiliates nor do they get paid as much publicity; however, that does not mean NAIA schools do not recruit and produce some serious ballers, such as NBA Hall of Famers Dennis Rodman and Scottie Pippen of the Jordan-era Chicago Bulls can attest (**).
NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association)
Community colleges (two year schools) fall under the NJCAA. NJCAA offers athletes whose academic ability may not be on par with their sports ability a chance to still play sport at a high level. Athletes who complete NJCAA usually transfer to NCAA or NAIA after two years to bigger four year colleges with great success and increased sporting skills.
The NJCAA is a great pathway for international players as they are able to obtain larger scholarships. Coaches from the NCAA and NAIA also prefer to take NJCAA players rather than foreign players. This is because foreign players are often without any experience in the collegiate system or if they do not have a strong academic or athletic background. The level of play at a NJCAA level is on par with NAIA and NCAA Div 2 colleges with some NJCAA teams being capable of competing at an even higher level (***).
(*) http://www.ncaa.org/about/who-we-are/membership/divisional-differences-and-history-multidivision-classification
(**) http://connect.fisher.edu/naia-v-ncaa-whats-the-difference
(***) http://www.nsraustralia.com/the-differences-between-ncaa-div-i-ii-iii-naia-and-njcaa/
