There are roughly 11 college-level individual events that are consistently recognized by various national tournaments, plus a large number of events that are offered regionally or sporadically. This page covers the nationally consistent events. The links within this page are bookmarks, so you can print all 11 events at once.
More unusual events appear separately.
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