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The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) is a college athletic conference made up of historically black colleges in the southeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division II. Its annual basketball tournament is one of the most successful events in the nation. The CIAA Basketball Tournament is the third most attended athletic event in collegiate sports after the Atlantic Coast Conference and Big East tournaments; and is the first NCAA Division II conference to have its tournament televised as part of Championship Week on ESPN. Several of the teams have claimed national championships in their respective sports. Virginia Union University has claimed the National Championship in Basketball (Division II) on three occasions. St. Augustine's College is also a national power in the sport of Track and Field.
HistoryThe Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association is the oldest African-American athletic conference in the United States. Founded in 1912 on the campus of Hampton Institute (now Hampton University), the CIAA embodies a history rich in tradition, which epitomizes the fortitude of its 11 colleges and universities. When the conference was founded, it was originally known as the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Its founding fathers were Allen Washington and C.H. Williams of Hampton Institute; Ernest J. Marshall of Howard University; George Johnson of Lincoln University, PA ; W.E. Atkins, Charles Frasher and H.P. Hargrave of Shaw University; and J.W. Barco and J.W. Pierce of Virginia Union University. The conference’s football legacy dates back to 1892. That year Livingstone College and Johnson C. Smith University (then Biddle University) played in the first football game between two African-American colleges. The athleticism and sportsmanship the teams exhibited on that rainy afternoon set the standard for the CIAA’s member institutions: Bowie State University, Elizabeth City State University, Fayetteville State University, Johnson C. Smith University, Livingstone College, North Carolina Central University, St. Augustine's College, St. Paul’s College, Shaw University, Virginia State University, and Virginia Union University.
North Carolina Central University is reclassifying their athletic program to NCAA Division I and will be leaving the CIAA for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, a Division I conference also made up exclusively of historically black schools. SportsThe CIAA is divided into Eastern and Western Divisions in all of the sports except track and field/cross country and baseball, and sponsors 16 annual championships. The men's championships are:
The women’s championships are:
CheerleadingThe CIAA cheering squads practice Stomp 'N Shake that incorporates voice, gymnastics, and dance. Over the past few decades, S-N-S has evolved into a more technical style, priding itself of precision, accuracy, and creativity. Included in this style are the techniques of up-stomp, up-step, down-stomp, kick, side-kick, roll, roll-break, power-arms, slpaz-hand, clasp, blade, and the infamous shakes(car-wash shake, single shake, double shake, hit-shake, and jiggle-pop). SQUADS
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