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The CACC started sponsoring bowling in 2022–23. It currently does not have enough bowling members to receive an automatic bid; even if it did, it would not be eligible until 2024–25. Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (8 D-II schools) College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (8 D-III schools) [41]
The United States Bowling Congress (USBC) is a sports membership organization dedicated to ten-pin bowling in the United States.It was formed in 2005 by a merger of the American Bowling Congress—the original codifier of all tenpin bowling standards, rules, and regulations from 1895 onwards; the Women's International Bowling Congress—founded in 1916, as the female bowlers' counterpart to ...
The NAIA Men's Bowling Championship is an annual tournament hosted by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics to determine the national champion of collegiate men's team ten-pin bowling among its members in the United States. [1]
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) [b] is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and 1 in Canada. [3] It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges and helps over 500,000 college student athletes who compete annually in college sports . [ 3 ]
In 2010, after several decades of absence, men's and women's bowling was elevated to the status of emerging sport by the NAIA after more than 25 institutions declared participation. As part of the process of reaching full championship status, a national invitational tournament was organized as a precursor to a team championship event.
The sport in the United States probably originated from early settlers from the United Kingdom. Clubs existed long before the American Lawn Bowling Association was created in Buffalo, New York, on July 27, 1915. The Eastern and Western Divisions were created in 1937.
These collegiate women's bowling teams compete as members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). As of the most recent 2023–24 season, 103 NCAA member schools sponsored the sport. [1] The largest number of competing schools is found in Division II with 40; Division I has 39 and Division III has 24.
The first tier of intercollegiate sports in the United States includes sports that are sanctioned by one of the collegiate sport governing bodies. The major sanctioning organization is the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).