INDIANAPOLIS --- For the sixth consecutive year, all 88 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championships will receive television exposure, including 17 spring sports to be featured in a one-hour special on CBS Sports.
“CBS Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA” will air at 2 p.m. Eastern time/11 a.m. Pacific time Sunday, June 22, on CBS Sports. Highlights and stories from baseball, golf, rowing, softball, tennis and outdoor track & field will be featured in the program. For the 2007-2008 academic year, CBS Sports has featured 44 of the NCAA’s 88 championships in the three seasonal shows.
Some of the stories to be featured in the program from many student-athletes pursuing their individual and team paths to various NCAA championships include the following:
• Division III Baseball – Trinity College (CT) pursues the perfect season and the school’s first-ever baseball national championship.
• Division III Outdoor Track & Field – Peter Kosgei, a sophomore at Hamilton College (NY) from Kenya, started running only two years ago. He attempts to win both the steeplechase and the 5,000-meter run titles.
• Division II Women’s Rowing – Western Washington University vies to become the first rowing team ever to win four consecutive national titles.
• Division III Softball – a very touching story involving the Muskingum College (OH) head coach Donna Newberry, who is a breast cancer survivor and an inspiration to her team.
Through the NCAA-CBS 11-year bundled rights agreement, CBS Sports has aired 17 seasonal shows from the three NCAA sports seasons (fall, winter, spring) over the last five-plus years. The Sunday, June 22nd show is the 18th edition and will complete six full years of CBS Sports coverage of the seasonal show (CBS Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA). Each seasonal show features highlights and unique NCAA student-athlete stories from the NCAA Division II and III championships.
CBS Sports’ Tracy Wolfson will serve as the host of “CBS Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA.” This is the third seasonal show that Wolfson has hosted. Since 2004, she has served as the lead sideline reporter for CBS Sports' coverage of college football. In addition, Wolfson serves as reporter for the network’s coverage of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, auto racing, gymnastics, ice skating, rodeo, skiing, tennis and track & field. This spring’s highlight show (CBS Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA) was produced by Deb Boulac while James W. Johnson, Julie Landa, John Paquet and Brian Seeling all served as feature producers.
For more information about NCAA championships, log on to www.NCAA.com.
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