CBS Sports to Air NCAA Spring Seasonal Show on Sunday, July 1

INDIANAPOLIS --- For the fifth consecutive year, all 88 National Collegiate Athletic Association championships will receive television exposure, including 16 spring sports to be featured in a one-hour special.

“CBS Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA” will air at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time/10:30 a.m. Pacific time Sunday, July 1, on CBS Sports. Highlights and stories from golf, rowing, softball, tennis and outdoor track & field will be featured in the program. For the 2006-07 academic year, CBS Sports has featured 41 of the NCAA’s 88 championships in the three seasonal shows.

Some of the student-athlete stories to be featured in the program include:

• Stephanie Zweig, a sophomore from Plattsburgh State University of New York, was born with Erb’s Palsy, leaving her with only one healthy arm. The one-armed pitcher displays her perseverance every time she steps onto the softball field.
• Bert Green of McMurry University returned to college after an 11-year professional baseball career and looks to lead his 4x100-meter relay team to victory.
• Matt Seeberger of the University of California, Santa Cruz swept the NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Championships as a sophomore capturing the team, single and doubles titles. He looks to repeat the feat again this year.
• In March, the University of Virginia’s Chrissie Monaghan almost died in a bike accident. She was on life support and suffered head trauma. Through hard work and determination she worked hard to get back and row in the varsity 4-boat.
• Junior Kelly Will, who suffers from Diabetes, hopes to lead her Washington and Lee

University tennis team to their first team title, after finishing second in three of the last four years.

Through the NCAA-CBS 11-year bundled rights agreement, CBS Sports has aired 14 seasonal shows from the three NCAA sports seasons (fall, winter, spring) over the last five years. This Sunday’s show is the 15th edition. The seasonal shows typically feature highlights and unique NCAA student-athlete stories from the 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 second 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, tennis, auto racing and skiing. This spring’s highlight show (CBS Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA) was produced by Deb Boulac.

Steve McKee and John Paquet served as feature producers.

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