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The NAIA has passed the first legislation of its kind in #collegeathletics to allow its student-athletes the opportunity to be compensated for use of their Name, Image & Likeness (NIL). For more information on the #NIL legislation: bit.ly/34qaQXk
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The NAIA is devastated to learn about the fatal car crash last involving @USWAthletics M/W golf teams. Our hearts go out to the families of those who lost their lives or were injured in this tragic accident. We share our deepest condolences to all during this difficult time.
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BREAKING | NAIA COP Votes to Not Charge Fall/Winter Student-Athletes Season of Competition
Read more--> bit.ly/3kY4jdn
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NAIA Postpones Most Fall 2020 Championships to Spring 2021. The NAIA Council of Presidents voted to move cross-country, m/w soccer and women's volleyball championships. Decision on football expected Friday. Full report here: bit.ly/335xVQe
#NAIATogether
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The NAIA announced today that it is cancelling the spring 2020 sports season, effective immediately. For more information: bit.ly/3cZRDzn
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BREAKING | We are thrilled to announce we have partnered with @opendorse to become our official name, image and likeness (NIL) partner! The FIRST-ever association-wide deal in college athletics! Read more about what it means for our student-athletes: bit.ly/3IFQL1C #NIL
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We have officially announced the new dates for our fall championships, to be held in spring of 2021! bit.ly/2E2GGQY #NAIATogether #PlayNAIA
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Y'ALL IN?
The field for the 2024 Football National Championship is set and the #BattlefortheRedBanner begins.
#NAIAFootball #PlayNAIA
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@LSUSAthletics completes first undefeated season in college baseball history, beating @SEUFireBaseball to claim the 2025 #NAIABaseball National Championship. #BattleForTheRedBanner Complete! Congrats, Pilots, on your first Red Banner! #TheRightWayToPlay
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🎶👯♂️🥎When you beat the No. 1 seed of 2021 #NAIASoftball World Series
@CoyoteAthletics
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NAIA cancels all winter championships
For more info:bit.ly/2vRLvIM
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@CrowleyISD Multipurpose Stadium Selected as 2025 #NAIAFootball Championship Game Site
#TheRightWayToPlay
➡️ naia.prestosports.com/x/v1ew…
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We are thrilled to announce a partnership with @NFLFLAG and @RCX_experiences to be the first to make women’s flag football a collegiate sport! Check-out the official announcement here -->bit.ly/2YAi3mb #FemalesInFLAG #NAIAWFLAG
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The NAIA believes our student-athletes and members’ well-being is the focus of our association in these hard times. While we have to wait a while longer to be together, just know we are forever #NAIATogether.
📽️ bit.ly/2Xf19YU
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In Memory of the @USWAthletics student-athletes who perished, the Mustangs are the Golfers of the Week.
Read More --> bit.ly/3wv4ntI
#PlayNAIA #NAIAMGolf #collegegolf
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An awesome moment with her father - the 2019 National Champion in the Heptathlon
Congrats to Kamberlyn Lamer of @dwusports - a final total of 5,065 points to claim the title!
#NAIATrack #PlayNAIA
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Trent Solsma, the 2018 #NAIAFootball Player of the Year, shared his thoughts on taking home this prestigious award... #CollegeFootball
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It was a long time coming, but Steve Ryan and the @MsideMustangs have their national title.
Here's what a victorious Coach Ryan had to say after the game.
#NAIAFootball #PlayNAIA
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MEET YOUR 2019 NAIA DII WOMEN'S BASKETBALL NATIONAL CHAMPIONS 🏆🏆
@cunebulldogs defeats Southeastern (Fla.) 67-59
#NAIADIIWBB #PlayNAIA
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THE 68TH ANNUAL BASEBALL NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FIELD IS SET.
Who's winning it all?
#PlayNAIA #TheRightWaytoPlay #NAIABaseball
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🏈| Joe Dolincheck of @MsideMustangs has been selected as the #NAIAFootball Player of the Year!
The senior QB has orchestrated the most lethal offense in the country.
Click to read more --> bit.ly/3yxuoaW
#collegefootball #PlayNAIA
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For the second time in program history…
The Grand View (Iowa) Vikings are your 2024 NAIA Football National Champions!
#NAIAFootball | #BattleForTheRedBanner
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We miss sports too. #NAIATogether
📽️ bit.ly/2Xf19YU
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The NAIA has a plan to support the 2020 fall sports season. Check-out the most recent information on scheduling & competitions for fall 2020: bit.ly/2O8JjSq AND get eligible to ensure you’re ready when games begin: bit.ly/30vWFzI #NAIATogether #PlayNAIA
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2019 DII Women’s Basketball National Championship parade of champions. Congratulations to all the student-athletes and coaches who made it to Sioux City, your hard work paid off! #NAIADIIWBB #PlayNAIA
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@JimmieAthletics wins!!!
Let the confetti fall!
#PlayNAIA #NAIAWVB #BattleForTheRedBanner #collegevolleyball
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🏈 | @MsideMustangs’ Joe Dolincheck’s thoughts after being named the #NAIAFootball National Championship Offensive Player of the Game... #CollegeFootball #CFB150
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Congrats to Georgetown, your 2019 #NAIADIMBB National Champion. bit.ly/2Tye03L
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How do you warm up for practice at Nationals? Here's an inside look at @Hastingsbroncos warming up to footloose
#PlayNAIA #NAIAWVB
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The NAIA adopt women’s wrestling as 28th National Championship sport, becoming first Collegiate Athletics Association to acknowledge sport as championship status. @USAWrestling @nwcawrestling
Learn more --> bit.ly/3Jr68v5
#PlayNAIA #collegewrestling #NAIAWWrest
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🥎| Congratulations @BethanySwedes on an awesome season and a fourth place finish at the 2021 #NAIASoftball World Series!
#PlayNAIA #CollegeSoftball
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When you don’t even realize you just won and earned All-America status
@LifeUAthletics
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🏀Congratulations to @SAUCougars on their first-ever #NAIADIIMBB title in program with an 82-76 victory over @OregonTechOwls! #PlayNAIA
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The 60th name to be engraved on the #NAIAMSoccer National Championship trophy will be the @cmueagles.
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The NAIA becomes the FIRST collegiate athletics association to allow student-athletes compensation for their name, image and likeness with the passing of #NIL Legislation! Learn more: bit.ly/38BthII #NAIATogether
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🏈 | 2019 National Champions @MsideMustangs claim the final No. 1 spot of the season in the #NAIAFootball Coaches' Top 25 postseason poll.
Rounding out the top five is @MUKnights, @VikingAthletics, @LWCAthletics and @CoyoteAthletics
#NAIAPoll #PlayNAIA
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This is our story. This is college athletics the way it was meant to be. This is #TheRightWayToPlay
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This is how special a win can be at municipal... A proud moment for coach John Henry of his @WPUAthletics squad and their huge 69-53 win over @VULions! #NAIADIMBB #PlayNAIA
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Game Winner!!! @INTechWarriors wins it in the bottom of the 10th to take game one! #NAIABSBWorldSeries
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We have, in fact, lost power to the field lights. We have confirmed that the power bill has been paid... Working on restoring power now. #NAIABSBWorldSeries
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🏈 | It's a FINAL!!! @MsideMustangs defeats @VikingAthletics to take the 2021 #NAIAFootball National Title back to Sioux City! #CollegeFootball #PlayNAIA
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Spring Arbor def. Oregon Tech 82-76 in the NAIA D-II Men's Basketball National Championship; Cougars win first ever basketball title and end season with 30-7 record. @SAUCougars #NAIADIIMBB
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Final seconds and celebration for Spring Arbor's 82-76 win over Oregon Tech in the NAIA D-II Men's Basketball National Championship. @SAUCougars #NAIADIIMBB
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Your 2018 #NAIAMSoccer National Champions are the @cmueagles! The Eagles beat Missouri Valley 4-3 in PKs.
#ChampionshipMoment #CollegeSoccer
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For the first time in #NAIAMSoccer history, @MNUSports are the National Champions!
#BattleForTheRedBanner #collegesoccer
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🏀 Y'ALL IN? 🏀
The 44th Annual Women's Basketball National Championship tips off on March 14 at 16 sites across the country. Who's winning the Battle for the Red Banner?
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Let the confetti fall!
@ClarkeAthletics ARE FIRST TIME NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! 🎊🎉🥳
#BattleForTheRedBanner #PlayNAIA #CollegeBasketball
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BREAKING NEWS! We have announced (5) five new NAIA members!
Welcome @ABAC_College, @BBCandTS, @defiancecollege, @NewCollegeofFL, and @SMCSC.
See all of our new members here>> bit.ly/3LKc1rg
#ExperienceNAIA #HigherEducation
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Morningside (Iowa) finishes in the top spot of the postseason edition of the NAIA Coaches' Top 25 Poll! #NAIAFootball #CollegeFootball bit.ly/2PEOatk
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The battle of the unbeaten
Read full preview --> bit.ly/38JTeXQ
#NAIAFootball #CollegeFootball #PlayNAIA
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Your 2019 NAIA Baseball National Champion... @twbulldogs! #NAIABSBWorldSeries
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Your 2020 NAIA Women's Volleyball National Champions @MBUAthletics!
#PlayNAIA #collegevolleyball #NAIAWVB
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🏈| As voted upon by the fans, the #NAIAFootball Game of the Week will be @buildersports at @Thresher_Sports! If you like offense, you will definitely see it in this battle. #NAIAGOW #CollegeFootball
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The @dordtdefenders men capture the university’s first-ever team title as the Defenders finish with the collective total of 97 points on the morning.
#PlayNAIA | #NAIAXC
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@VikingAthletics head coach Joe Woodley secured his first #NAIAFB #BattleForTheRedBanner victory as a head coach, six years after he won it as an assistant coach under his father!
Hear what Woodley had to say about it!
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Putting the finishing touches on the field for the #NAIAFootball Championships. #collegefootball #PlayNAIA
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Congratulations to former #NAIAFootball student-athlete @KalenDeBoer!
Did you know he was also a championship winning coach in the NAIA to start off his career?!?
#collegefootball #PlayNAIA
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🏈| The @WeAreAFCA has announced the NAIA All-America Teams for the 2021 campaign.
Click here to view --> bit.ly/3pQRhCc
#NAIAFootball #CollegeFootball #PlayNAIA
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🏈| @LWCAthletics National Champions! That's it. That's the tweet. #NAIAFootball #CollegeFootball #PlayNAIA
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⚾️ | @GGCAthletics head coach Jeremy Sheetinger broke down his team’s win and sticking to the process that has brought them this far... #NAIABaseball #CollegeBaseball #PlayNAIA
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⚾️| The #NAIABaseball Preseason Top 25 has @FireAthletics leading the way! Check-out where your team finished.
Full Top 25--> bit.ly/38b20Af
#CollegeBaseball #NAIAPoll
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🏈| And then there were four. The #NAIA Football Semifinals are set!
#1 @LWCAthletics vs. @VikingAthletics
#2 @MsideMustangs vs. #4 @nwcraiders
Click to read more --> bit.ly/3DbFOC5
#collegefootball #PlayNAIA
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Two OT winner! What an incredible finish by both @ravenathletics and @UPIKEAthletics! An emotionally drained Coach Kelly Wells after an incredible basketball game. #NAIADIMBB #PlayNAIA
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“For everybody that is watching this that doesn’t think they can do it just because of where they came from .. you’re wrong.”
4️⃣X National Champion, Evan Hansen of @VikingAthletics
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⚾️ | @GGCAthletics head coach Jeremy Sheetinger talked about a gutsy performance by Kevin Kyle in the win to send the Grizzlies a win away from the red banner... #NAIABaseball #CollegeBaseball #PlayNAIA
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🥎 | “We battled through that game.. a couple of us seniors came into knowing this could possibly be our last game and we just wanted to go out with no regrets. “
Pitcher Samantha Quezada of @BethanySwedes after defeating Madonna (Mich.) 5-4
#NAIASoftball
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M 🏀 | College of Idaho is your 2023 #NAIAMBB National Champion! Read the full release below...
Read more--> bit.ly/3yR6U1A
#BattleForTheRedBanner
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During these difficult times, we support you on and off the field. We share with you now #NAIATogether at the CORE.
🎥 - bit.ly/2XiZlz8
Learn more --> bit.ly/39QLyCr
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Happy #NationalGirlsAndWomenInSportsDay
The NAIA began sponsoring women's championships just over 41 years ago. We are proud to sponsor 14 women's championships with hopes to add more in the future!
#NGWSD #NGWSD2021
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🏈 | A lot of shifting schedules with weather, but we are happy to announce the first #NAIAFootball Game of the Week for the spring will be @IWUWildcats at @ONUAthletics! #NAIAGOW #CollegeFootball
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Happy #MemorialDay
The NAIA remembers the men and women who sacrificed their lives to serve our country.
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How about the @GoFmuLions/@KUSeahawks FB game getting a mention on @CollegeGameDay!!! #NAIAFootball #PlayNAIA
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Recap the buzzer-beater in the 81st annual #NAIADIMBB National Championship tonight in KC as @GUjackets win its 1st-ever title
bit.ly/2ubvZ8U
#PlayNAIA #CollegeBasketball
@lsuagenerals @VisitKC @NABC1927
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🏈| @LWCAthletics start the 2021 season in the No. 1 spot of the 2021 NAIA Coaches' Postseason Top 25 poll
See who else made the top 25 poll --> bit.ly/2TPwdjv
#NAIAFootball
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2023 marks the 13th time that a female head coach has won an #NAIAWBB title
Coach Courtney Boyd of @ClarkeAthletics becomes a part of a select group of women as the 9th female head coach to win a #NAIAWBB title
#BattleForTheRedBanner #WomensHistoryMonth
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🏈| Coaches Top 25 Poll |
@MsideMustangs remain No. 1 for the 13th week in a row!
After two big victories @MUKnights and @VikingAthletics move into the #NAIAFootball Top 25!
#CFB150 #NAIAPoll
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🏈 | Charles’ Salary’s thoughts after being named the #NAIAFootball Player of the Year! #CFB150 #PlayNAIA @MUKnights
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In 24 hours @MsideMustangs and @MUKnights take the field..Make.it.count. 🏈 🏆
See you there!
#NAIAFootball #CFB150
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@LSUSathletics Completes Historic 59-0 Season, Claiming 2025 #NAIABaseball National Championship
Game Recap ➡️
naia.prestosports.com/x/znoy…
#BattleForTheRedBanner #TheRightWayToPlay
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