INDIANAPOLIS --- The NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2015 Division III Women’s Soccer Championship.
Forty-four conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the 2015 championship. The final 20 berths were reserved for Pool C, which include institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any Pool B teams. There were no separate berths awarded this year to Pool B, which consists of independent institutions, and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification.
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Sixteen four-team sites will conduct first- and second-round play on the first weekend of the championship, November 13 and 14 or 14 and 15. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites November 20 and 21 or 21 and 22. 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 4 and 5, at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri.
In last year’s final, Lynchburg defeated Williams in penalty kicks to win the championship after a 0-0 tie following regulation and both overtime periods.
Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (44):
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference - Pennsylvania State University, Erie, the Behrend College
American Southwest Conference - Hardin-Simmons University
Capital Athletic Conference - York College (Pennsylvania)
Centennial Conference - Johns Hopkins University
City University of New York Athletic Conference - College of Staten Island
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin - Wheaton College (Illinois)
Colonial States Athletic Conference - Cabrini College
Commonwealth Coast Conference - Roger Williams University
Empire 8 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Great Northeast Athletic Conference - Lasell College
Great South Athletic Conference - University of California, Santa Cruz
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference - Hanover College
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Wartburg College
Landmark Conference - Catholic University
Liberty League - William Smith College
Little East Conference - Western Connecticut State University
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference - Westfield State University
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association - Calvin College
Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth - Messiah College
Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom - DeSales University
Midwest Conference - Carroll University (Wisconsin)
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Gustavus Adolphus College
New England Collegiate Conference - Lesley University
New England Small College Athletic Conference - Williams College
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference - Springfield College
New Jersey Athletic Conference - Rowan University
North Atlantic Conference - Colby-Sawyer College
North Coast Athletic Conference - DePauw University
North Eastern Athletic Conference - Penn State Berks College
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference - Milwaukee School of Engineering
Northwest Conference - University of Puget Sound
Ohio Athletic Conference - Capital University
Old Dominion Athletic Conference - Lynchburg College
Presidents’Athletic Conference - Thomas More College
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Westminster College (Missouri)
Skyline Conference - St. Joseph’s College (Long Island)
Southern Athletic Association - Centre College
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Pomona-Pitzer Colleges
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference - Trinity University (Texas)
State University of New York Athletic Conference - State University of New York at Oneonta
University Athletic Association - Washington University in St. Louis
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference - The College of St. Scholastica
USA South Athletic Conference - Piedmont College
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Association - University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Pool C Berths (20):
Amherst College
Augustana College (Illinois)
Babson College
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Carnegie Mellon University
University of Chicago
Denison University
Illinois Wesleyan University
Ithaca College
McDaniel College
Misericordia University
Montclair State University
The College of New Jersey
St. Lawrence University
University of the South
Swarthmore College
The University of Texas at Tyler
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
