Nov. 10, 2008

INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Committee announced today the field of 61 teams for the 2008 NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Championship.

Thirty-eight conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the 2008 championship. 

Four 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 consists of institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams.

Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification:

Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference 
Frostburg State
American Southwest Conference      
Texas-Dallas
Capital Athletic Conference     
Salisbury
Centennial Conference      
Haverford
City University of New York Athletic Conference 
Hunter
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin      
Carthage
Colonial States Athletic Conference 
Neumann
Commonwealth Coast Conference      
Endicott
Commonwealth Conference      
Lebanon Valley
Empire 8 
Stevens Institute of Technology
Freedom Conference      
Eastern
Great Northeast Athletic Conference 
Rivier
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference 
Mount St. Joseph
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference 
Loras
Little East Conference 
Keene State
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference 
Bridgewater State
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association 
Hope
Midwest Conference 
St. Norbert 
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference 
St. Thomas (Minnesota)
New England Small College Athletic Conference 
Williams
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference 
Springfield
New Jersey Athletic Conference 
Richard Stockton
North Atlantic Conference 
Maine Maritime
North Coast Athletic Conference 
Wittenberg
North Eastern Athletic Conference 
D'Youville
Northern Athletics Conference 
Lakeland
Northwest Conference 
Pacific Lutheran
Ohio Athletic Conference 
Ohio Northern
Old Dominion Athletic Conference 
Washington and Lee
Presidents' Athletic Conference 
Westminster (Pennsylvania)
Skyline Conference 
Sage Colleges
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference 
La Verne
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference 
Trinity (Texas)
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference 
Webster
State University of New York Athletic Conference 
Fredonia State
USA South Athletic Conference     
Christopher Newport
University Athletic Association
Washington U. in St. Louis
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Association 
Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Pool B Berths (4):

Cal State East Bay
Juniata
Nebraska Wesleyan
Union (New York)

Pool C Berths (19):

Cal Lutheran
Calvin
Carnegie Mellon
Colorado College
Concordia-Moorhead
Emory
Gustavus Adolphus
Heidelberg
Muskingum
New Paltz State
Puget Sound
St. Benedict
Simpson
Southwestern (Texas)
Tufts
Wellesley
Wisconsin-Whitewater
Wisconsin-La Crosse
Wisconsin-Eau Claire

In last year's finals, Washington-St. Louis defeated Wisconsin-Whitewater by a score of 3-2 to win the championship and their ninth title in the history of the championship.

See the Bracket