The City of Birmingham and the Birmingham CrossPlex Awarded Four NCAA Championships for 2023 – 2026
Birmingham, AL (October 15, 2020) – The NCAA has awarded four championships to the Birmingham CrossPlex for the 2023 – 2026 seasons.
The City of Birmingham and Birmingham Southern College will host the following championships:
- 2023 Division III Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track and Field Championship
- 2026 Division III Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track and Field Championship
The Birmingham CrossPlex hosted its first NCAA National Championship in 2013 with the Division II Winter Festival. The CrossPlex was awarded 11 NCAA championships for the 2015-2018 bid cycle and was awarded 13 championships for the 2019 – 2022 bid cycle bringing a total of 29 NCAA championships to the CrossPlex through 2022.
The previous championships and sports have included:
- Division I, II & III Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track and Field National Championships (2013, 2015-2022)
- Division II Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving National Championships (2013, 2017, 2021)
- Division II Wrestling (2013 and 2017)
- Division II Women’s Basketball Elite Eight (2020 and 2022)
This is the third time for this specific NCAA championship bid process, which created the largest host site announcement ever, spanning 86 championships across a four-year cycle. Previously, selection announcements varied by sport. This process now gives the NCAA and host sites more time to plan each championship experience.
Bidding for 86 of 90 NCAA championships began in August 2019 and more than 3,000 bid applications were ultimately submitted. Each sport committee, per division, selected the host sites it believed would provide the ultimate experience for the respective student-athletes, resulting in more than 400 total championship event sites being awarded. More than 54,000 student- athletes compete in NCAA championships each year.
The four championships not included in the process due to preexisting site arrangements are: Division I baseball, Division I football, Division I softball and Division III women’s ice hockey.
