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May 31-June 3, 2000: Seilala Sua of UCLA becomes the first six-time career individual titlist at the Division I Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships with victories in the discus and shot put.
Oct. 27, 2000: A new “blue disk” NCAA logo featuring a modern typeface is created.
Nov. 25, 2000: Messiah wins the first of 11 Division III Men’s Soccer Championship titles between 2000 and 2017.
March 25, 2001: The first National Collegiate Women’s Ice Hockey Championship is played in Minneapolis, where Minnesota Duluth wins the first of three straight championships under coach Shannon Miller.
March 3, 2001: Simpson wrestler Nick Ackerman, whose legs were amputated below the knees as a child, wins the championship match in the 174-pound class at the 2001 Division III Wrestling Championships.
May 13, 2001: UCLA wins the first National Collegiate Women’s Water Polo Championship.
May 24-26, 2001: Rhondale Jones of Lincoln (Pennsylvania) wins three events at the Division III Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships to finish her career with a record nine titles in outdoor competition.
March 9, 2002: The first Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Championship is played at Elmira, New York, where Elmira College wins the first of two consecutive championships.
March 23, 2002: Iowa State wrestler Cael Sanderson completes his four-year undefeated collegiate career by winning the championship match in the 197-pound class at the Division I Wrestling Championships.
Jan. 1, 2003: Myles Brand of Indiana becomes the fourth NCAA president, succeeding Cedric Dempsey. Brand is the first institutional president to serve in the position.
2003: The Playing Rules Oversight Panel is formed as an Association-wide committee to review playing rules proposals, especially those involving player safety, financial impact or image of the game, and to review playing rules issues, including implementation of playing rules proposed by playing rules committees.
May 26, 2003: UCLA pitcher Keira Goerl throws a nine-inning no-hitter in the 2003 NCAA Division I Softball Championship game.
Jan. 12, 2004: Division III delegates approve most of a landmark “Future of Division III” legislative package, including measures to create an electronic financial aid reporting process and eliminate the practice of “redshirting.”
Feb. 4, 2004: The NCAA announces an agreement with the Indiana Sports Corp. making Indianapolis the permanent “backup site” for the Men’s and Women’s Final Fours in case of an emergency that requires those events to be relocated. The agreement also ensures that the city frequently will host the Association’s high-profile championships and its Convention.
April 5-6, 2004: UConn becomes the first Division I school to win the men’s and women’s basketball titles in the same year. It is the third consecutive title for the women’s team.
Jan. 10, 2005: The Division I Board of Directors adopts an Academic Progress Rate, subjecting teams that fail to meet established minimum scores to possible penalties ranging from loss of scholarships to postseason bans and membership restrictions.
June 24-26, 2005: Division II brings together presidents and chancellors in Orlando, Florida, to discuss issues important to the future of the division. It is the first such presidential summit in Association history.
Aug. 5, 2005: The NCAA Executive Committee announces a new Native American mascot policy to prohibit NCAA colleges and universities from displaying hostile and abusive racial/ethnic/national origin mascots, nicknames or imagery at any NCAA championships. The policy, which took effect Feb. 1, 2006, prohibits schools with such mascots from hosting any NCAA championship competitions.
2006: The NCAA celebrates its 100th anniversary. One of the centennial projects is a list of the top 25 defining moments in the first 100 years of the NCAA. The list was based on nominations from the membership and selected by a committee chaired by Alfreeda Goff of the Horizon League.
Aug. 27, 2007: The NCAA Executive Committee approves a new seating configuration that will increase capacity to about 70,000 at the Men’s Final Four beginning in 2009, creating sections that will put thousands of students courtside for the national championship. The Executive Committee authorized the purchase of temporary seating to be transported and installed at all Final Four sites.
Dec. 1, 2007: Concordia-St. Paul wins the first of seven straight Division II Women’s Volleyball Championships under coach Brady Starkey. The team also won two more in 2016 and 2017.
April 6, 2009: An NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament record crowd of 72,922 attends the championship game of the Men’s Final Four at Ford Field in Detroit. North Carolina defeats Michigan State 89-72 to win the national championship. The attendance for the national semifinals two days earlier was 72,456.
April 17-18, 2009: Georgia’s Courtney Kupets wins four individual titles to bring her career total to a record nine titles in the National Collegiate Women’s Gymnastics Championships.
2009: Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, becomes the NCAA’s first member school outside the United States, joining Division II.
Sept. 16, 2009: President Myles Brand dies of cancer. James L. Isch, formerly an NCAA senior vice president and chief financial officer, is later named interim president.
Sources: “In the Arena: The NCAA’s First Century” by Joseph N. Crowley, NCAA News and Champion magazine archives, the NCAA Media Center, and NCAA record books
