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Houghton's first national champion was Kaitlin Fadden who won the 2008 NAIA Outdoor Track and Field marathon event in a time of 2:57:10. It was the first NAIA national championship, either for a team or individual, for Houghton College. May 2012 graduate Danielle Brenon was the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field national champion in the marathon. [18]
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) track and field system has been touted as one of the main reasons for the success of the United States on the global stage of athletics. [1] All of the collegiate records come from athletes competing in the NCAA, with the exception of the outdoor women's 1500 metres record (NAIA).
Her father David was a three-sport letterman at the University of Michigan: a quarterback on the football team, a basketball player, and a competitor in the decathlon. Her older sisters Kathryn and Julia played tennis and ran track at Michigan respectively. Anna started track at seven by doing the high jump and then also running the 1500 meters.
The Empire 8 (E8) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III.The E8 sponsors intercollegiate athletic competition in men's baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, women's field hockey, men's football, men's golf, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's soccer, women's softball, men's and women's swimming and diving ...
The association's sports for men are baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, and track and field (indoor/outdoor). Women's sports are basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field (indoor/outdoor), and volleyball. The NCCAA discontinued men's volleyball and wrestling. [3]
Haughton was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame (1997), George Mason University Hall of Fame (2001), and the Carreras Sports Foundation Male Athlete of the Year (1999–2000). In April 2011 Greg Haughton received the award from the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association for Outstanding Contribution to Track and Field in Jamaica.
One of Michigan Technological University's Division II sports is men and women's outdoor track and field. The women's team came about in 1984, as an addition to the men's team. [9] The school also funded an indoor track and field team until 1991 but had to cut its varsity status due to lack of funding for scholarship sports. [10]
The NCAA Division I Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship is an annual collegiate outdoor track and field competition for men organised by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Athlete's individual performances earn points for their institution and the team with the most points receives the NCAA team title in track and field.