Archives West Finding Aid

This collection contains the bylaws, policies, meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, and tournament results for the Northwest College Women's Sports Association, which was Region 9 of the AIAW from 1975-1983. The meeting minutes include notes from the annual general meeting, the Executive Committee, the Governing Committee, and the committee for tournaments and scheduling. The collection also contains newsletters and the correspondence for nearly every Association President from 1966-1983. In addition, materials pertaining to women's sports in the Northwest prior to the NCWSA are contained in this collection. Documents in the collection deal with everything from details on rules and eligibility to broader issues regarding the implementation of Title IX and the need for an organization dedicated solely to the advancement of women's collegiate sports.

Series 1: Policies and Bylaws, 1966-1983. This series consists of the constitutions, bylaws, policy handbooks, and member directories for the NCWSA.

Series 2: Communications, 1966-1983. This series consists of the correspondence of past presidents of the NCWSA, with the exception of the 1975-1976 academic years. This series also includes issues of the Association newsletter and statements on Title IX from 1980.

Series 3: Meetings and Reports, 1941-1996. This series consists of two subseries: Annual Meetings and Budgets and Reports

Subseries 1: Annual Meetings, 1964-1996. This subseries consists of agendas, budgets, notes, and correspondence for the annual meetings of the NCWSA. It also includes materials related to the organization's 30th year reunion in 1996.

Subseries 2: Budgets and Reports, 1941-1983. This subseries consists of the NCWSA general operating budgets, reports from meetings of the AIAW and Commission for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (CIAW), historical documents about women's collegiate sports in the Northwest, and reports and proposals submitted to the NCWSA.

Series 4: Committees, 1967-1983. This series consists of minutes, agendas, correspondence, and support materials for the following committees: Executive, Governing, Student, Ethics and Eligibility, Awards, and Sports Advisors. The Governing Committee would occasionally run surveys or studies, which have been interfiled with the committee meeting files. Tournament schedules and arrangements were determined by the Sports Advisors Committee and their support materials are filed after their meeting files.

Series 5: Sports, 1940-1982. This series consists of programs, regulations, correspondence, results, and historical documents related to specific sports governed by the NCWSA. Sports included are: badminton, basketball, bowling, cross country, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, skiing, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, and volleyball.

Series 6: Miscellaneous, 1971-1982. This series consists of materials on athletic director workshops, officiating services, financial aid regulations, and external sports governing bodies.

Series 7: Northwest College Women's Sports Foundation, 1978-2013. This series consists of files created by the Northwest Women's College Sports Foundation, which was created to support femal college student athletes in the Pacific Northwest. The organization was founded in 1982 after the dissolution of the NCWSA. The organization’s primary activity was to award scholarships to female student athletes. In 1995, the NCWSF sponsored talks about the history of the NCWSA at the national convention for the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD). The organization dissolved in 2013.

Series 8: Northwest College Women's Sports Association History Project, 1964-2003. This series consists of the administrative files for an oral history project on the Northwest College Women's Sports Association. The bulk of the series consists of the transcripts of the oral histories and the audio cassette tapes on which the interviews were recorded. The series also contains background materials for the oral histories including research materials, correspondence, and information about the methods used to conduct the oral histories.