Nov. 9, 2008
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Interactive Bracket
INDIANAPOLIS --- The NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Committee announced today the field of 61 teams for the 2008 NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Championship.
Thirty-nine conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the 2008 championship. Three teams were selected from Pool B, which consists of independent institutions, and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification. The final 19 berths were reserved for Pool C, which are institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams.
Three teams will receive first-round byes. Three two-team first-round matches will be played to determine the teams that advance to the second round to play the three teams that received a first-round bye. Thirteen four-team sites will conduct first- and second-round play on the first weekend of the championship, November 14-15 or 15-16. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites November 21-22 or 22-23. All games, except the semifinals and final, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. Winners of the four sectionals will advance to the semifinals December 5-6 at Macpherson Stadium at Bryan Park in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (39):
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference
Penn State-Altoona
American Southwest Conference
Hardin-Simmons
Capital Athletic Conference
St. Mary's (Maryland)
Centennial Conference
Johns Hopkins
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin
Wheaton (Illinois)
Colonial States Athletic Conference
Marywood
Commonwealth Conference
Messiah
Commonwealth Coast Conference
Roger Williams
Empire 8
Ithaca
Freedom Conference
Eastern
Great Northeast Athletic Conference
Norwich
Great South
Maryville (Tennessee)
Heartland College Athletic Conference
Mount St. Joseph
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Loras
Liberty League
William Smith
Little East Conference
Western Connecticut State
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference
Westfield State
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Calvin
Midwest Conference
Carroll
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Carleton
New England Small College Athletic Conference
Williams
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
Springfield
New Jersey Athletic Conference
Rowan
North Atlantic Conference
Husson
North Coast Athletic Conference
Wittenberg
North Eastern Athletic Conference
Keuka
Northern Athletics Conference
Edgewood
Northwest Conference
Puget Sound
Ohio Athletic Conference
Otterbein
Old Dominion Athletic Conference
Lynchburg
Presidents'Athletic Conference
Washington & Jefferson
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Principia
Skyline Conference
Farmingdale State
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference
Rhodes
State University of New York Athletic Conference
Oneonta State
University Athletic Association
Washington U. in St. Louis
USA South Athletic Conference
Meredith
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Pool B Berths (3):
UC Santa Cruz
Moravian
St. Scholastica
Pool C Berths (19):
Amherst
Carthage
Centre
Chicago
Denison
Emory
Endicott
Illinois Wesleyan
Nazareth
The College of New Jersey
Redlands
Richard Stockton
Rochester
Skidmore
St. Thomas (Minnesota)
Union (New York)
Virginia Wesleyan
Wheaton (Massachusetts)
Wisconsin-Eau Claire
In last year's finals, Wheaton (Illinois) defeated Messiah by a score of 1-0, to win the championship. The Thunder recorded their first undefeated season in school history and won their third national championship in the last four years.
