Aug. 6, 2024: The Division III Presidents Council takes emergency legislative action to amend transfer rules. Transferring student-athletes no longer have to serve an academic year of residence before being eligible to compete. Student-athletes who transfer while academically ineligible would not be immediately eligible for competition but could regain eligibility after the first term at the new Division III school, based on the school’s academic standards for all student-athletes. August 6, 2024 55
1997: Marymount basketball student-athlete Corinne Carson becomes one of the first known collegiate athletes to return to the sport after a liver transplant. She is named the WBCA National Player of the Year in Division III for 1997. March 25, 1997 50
May 14-18, 1996: Methodist wins the first of 16 women’s golf championships team titles between 1996 and 2012 (three in combined Divisions II and III competition and 13 in Division III competition), including 15 straight titles beginning in 1998. May 18, 1996 48
Nov. 12, 1983: Bloomsburg wins the first of 13 Division II Field Hockey Championship titles between 1983 and 2009 under coach Jan Hutchinson (in addition to Division III titles in 1984 and 1987, during an eight-year period when the Division II championship was discontinued). November 12, 1983 48
Nov. 10, 1973: The first Division III championship is conducted in cross country at Wheaton College (Illinois). November 10, 1973 47
