Washington (Mo.) leads field for 2013 DIII Women's Soccer Championship

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INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer Committee on Monday announced the field of 64 teams for the 2013 Division III Women’s Soccer Championship.

Forty-three conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the 2013 championship. One team was 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 20 berths were reserved for Pool C, which include institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams.

Sixteen four-team sites will conduct first- and second-round play on the first weekend of the championship, Nov. 15-16 or 16-17. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites Nov. 22-23 or 23-24. All matches, except the semifinals and final, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. Winners of the four sectionals will advance to the semifinals at Toyota Field in San Antonio on Dec. 6-7.

Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification:
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference -- Penn State, Erie, the Behrend College
American Southwest Conference -- Hardin-Simmons
Capital Athletic Conference -- York College (Pa.)
Centennial Conference -- Johns Hopkins
City University of New York Athletic Conference -- Brooklyn College
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin -- Wheaton (Ill.)
Colonial States Athletic Conference -- Cabrini
Commonwealth Conference -- Messiah
The Commonwealth Coast Conference -- Endicott
Empire 8 -- Ithaca
Freedom Conference -- Misericordia
Great Northeast Athletic Conference -- Lasell
Great South Athletic Conference -- Salem
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference -- Hanover
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- Loras
Landmark Conference -- Drew
Liberty League -- William Smith
Little East Conference -- Keene State
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference -- Bridgewater State
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association -- Calvin
Midwest Conference -- St. Norbert
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- St. Benedict
New England Collegiate Conference -- Lesley
New England Small College Athletic Conference -- Middlebury
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference -- Springfield
New Jersey Athletic Conference -- The College of New Jersey
North Atlantic Conference -- Colby-Sawyer
North Coast Athletic Conference -- Allegheny
North Eastern Athletic Conference -- Penn State Berks College
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference -- Aurora
Northwest Conference -- Puget Sound
Ohio Athletic Conference -- Capital
Old Dominion Athletic Conference -- Lynchburg
Presidents’Athletic Conference -- Thomas More
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- Webster
Skyline Conference -- SUNY-Farmingdale
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference -- Trinity (Texas)
State University of New York Athletic Conference -- SUNY-Oneonta
University Athletic Association -- Washington (Mo.)
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference -- St. Scholastica
USA South Athletic Conference -- Piedmont
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- Wis.-Whitewater

Pool B Berth:
Centre

Pool C Berths:
Amherst
Augustana (Ill.)
Bowdoin
Cal Lutheran
Carnegie Mellon
Christopher Newport
Chicago
Elizabethtown
Emory
Haverford
Illinois Wesleyan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Montclair State
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rowan
Skidmore
Scranton
Transylvania
Trinity (Conn.)
Williams