Published by Chad Waller/NAIA Director of Communications on March 2nd, 2016

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – (Live Scoring) (Schedule) The 51st annual men’s and 35th annual women’s National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Indoor Track and Field National Championships will begin Thursday in Johnson City, Tenn. For the first time since 2010 and 11th time overall, the event takes place at the David E. Walker Track. This venue played host from 2001-10 before heading to Geneva, Ohio, for the past five years. Over 130 men’s and women’s programs will compete as action begins at 1 p.m. EST Thursday with the women’s pentathlon and the men’s heptathlon at 1:30 p.m.

All of the national championship action will be video-streamed live on NAIANetwork.com, the NAIA’s official video-streaming platform provided by Stretch Internet. Fans will have a chance to watch up to four HD-quality live channels for a subscription fee. For more information, click here.

Sixty-eight events are scheduled over the three-day span. The Women's 5,000-meter semifinals will kick off the track portion of events at 4 p.m. Thursday with six other semifinals and prelim events to follow. On Friday, the heptathlon begins the day at 10 a.m., followed by the running and field events at noon. The National Championship ceremony, which honors eligible team’s Champions of Character individual awards and the Buffalo Funds Five Star Champions of Character Team Award, starts off Saturday at noon.

The national champions and award winners will be recognized Saturday at approximately 5:30 p.m. The top eight athletes in each event and top eight relay teams will each earn team points and achieve ASICS-NAIA All-America status. Those awards will be announced on Monday, March 7.