<p>I'm a high school junior right now and athletics has always been a big part of my life. I play both football and track, and I am pretty confident that I can play D3 or D2 in both but unfortunately the majority of the schools I'm applying to are D1. However, on collegeboard.com I always see things like Men's Club football/Men's Club track and Men's Intercollegiate Football/Track.. what's the difference?</p>
<p>Division 1, 2 and 3 sports are sanctioned by the NCAA.</p>
<p>Intramural sports are played among students internally within a college...groups of students make teams - primarily for recreational purposes.</p>
<p>Club team sports are not sanctioned by the NCAA, but normally are travel teams that will play other colleges. They're normally formed by students and sponsored by the university, but they don't compete on the NCAA level. For example, West Coast schools have club hockey teams and play each other...but don't compete with the big boy Midwest and Northeast hockey programs in the NCAA.</p>
<p>All it means is that they're not regulated by the NCAA. They may be regulated by another association and/or league, don't offer scholarships and may not be fully funded. They exist to allow students pursue their interests or simply have fun (or lots of fun, I understand, when it comes to rugby).</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, I get what club sports are now but when i type in intercollegiate in google it comes up as NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics).. can anyone give me more information on this?</p>
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<li>Is making the intercollegiate team at a D1 school the same as a D2/D3 school? Or are all intercollegiate teams just walk-on</li>
<li>Does the NAIA offer scholarships?</li>
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<p>Now I'm just confused.. when I go to collegeboard every college that I looked up like BC, Penn, Georgetown, etc. says Men's Intercollegiate under Football and Track but when I go to the NAIA site, none of these schools show up????</p>
<p>^ When colleges say Men's intercollegiate they normally mean the NCAA.</p>
<p>BC is part of the ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference)
Penn is part of the Ivy League.</p>
<p>All the schools you mention field teams in NCAA divisions.</p>
<p>Most schools that have a football and track team are going to be NCAA sanctioned.</p>
<p>These are the NAIA schools:
<a href="http://naia.cstv.com/member-services/about/members.htm%5B/url%5D">http://naia.cstv.com/member-services/about/members.htm</a></p>
<p>NCAA website:
<a href="http://web1.ncaa.org/onlineDir/exec/divisionListing%5B/url%5D">http://web1.ncaa.org/onlineDir/exec/divisionListing</a></p>
<p>There are two different Associations NCAA and NAIA. NCAA is the much larger one, and has Divisions 1, 2, and 3. 1 and 2 give athletic scholarships, 3 does not. Most of your big schools are NCAA D-1, most liberal arts colleges are D-3.</p>
<p>NAIA does give scholarships, and is probably approximately as competitive as D-2 on average. It is not as heavily regulated and it includes a lot of the Christian schools, but secular schools as well.</p>
<p>Hope that is clear.</p>