The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Thursday announced the new spring dates for its postponed fall championships. The NAIA’s National Administrative Committee approved the new dates, and in some cases, new locations, for the spring of 2021.
Those new dates are:
Cross Country Championship – April 9, 2021
Women’s Volleyball Championship – April 27 – May 1, 2021
Women’s Soccer Championship – April 27 – May 3, 2021
Men’s Soccer Championship – May 4-10, 2021
Football Championship – May 10, 2021
The NAIA Football National Championship has been rescheduled to occur on a Monday for the first time. The championship will remain at Eddie G. Robinson Stadium at Grambling State University and will take place on Monday, May 10, 2021 at 6:00pm.
The NAIA Women’s Soccer National Championship has been relocated from Orange Beach, Alabama, just seven miles away to Foley, Alabama, at the Ralph Schumacher Soccer Complex.
The NAIA Men’s Soccer National Championship will also make a move and will switch coasts to the east. Due to scheduling conflicts with the Orange County Great Park in Irvine, California, the men’s national championship is in final discussions with Columbia County, Georgia, to host at Blanchard Woods Park May 4 – 10, 2021. The county is expected to approve a memorandum of understanding on the terms of this move by September 1.
Women’s Volleyball will be staying put in Sioux City, Iowa for the 13th consecutive year. The Tyson Events Center will again play host as teams will battle it out for a national title from April 27 through May 1.
The re-scheduled cross-country national championship will take place on April 9, 2021 and will remain in Cedar Rapids at Seminole Valley Park, hosted by Cedar Rapids Tourism.
(Courtesy Campbellsville University Athletics)
