INDIANAPOLIS --- For the seventh consecutive year, all 88 NCAA championships will receive television exposure, including 17 spring sports being featured in a one-hour special.  CBS Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA will air at 2 p.m. Eastern, Saturday, July 4, on CBS Sports.  Highlights and stories from NCAA baseball, golf, rowing, softball, tennis and outdoor track & field will be featured in the program.  For the 2008-09 academic year, CBS Sports will feature half (44) of the NCAA’s 88 championships in its three seasonal shows.

The show focuses on the aspirations of several NCAA student-athletes pursuing their individual and team paths to various national championships, including:  

• Division III Rowing – Williams senior Meg Conan overcomes stress fractures in her spine to help defend her teams’ title.
  
• Division III Men’s Track & Field – The intense rivalry between Abilene Christian and St. Augustine.
  
• Division I Rowing – Yale senior Christina Person, a member of last years National Championship Varsity Eight Grand Final boat, will pursue a career in the Marines after graduation.

Through the NCAA-CBS 11-year bundled rights agreement, CBS Sports has aired 20 seasonal shows from the three NCAA championship seasons (fall, winter, spring) over the last seven years.  Each seasonal show features highlights and unique NCAA student-athlete stories from a variety of NCAA Division II and III championships.

CBS Sports’ Seth Davis will host this edition of CBS Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA.  For the fifth consecutive year, the spring program was produced by Deb Boulac.  Jonathan Segal, Kimani Morales, Julie Landa and John Paquet served as feature producers.  This year’s spring show will again be broadcast entirely in High Definition.

For more information about NCAA championships, log on to www.NCAA.com.

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