INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division III Women's Tennis Committee has selected the 49 teams that will compete in the 2016 NCAA Division III Women's Tennis Championships.
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The teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the first-, second- and third-rounds played at regional sites, Friday-Sunday, May 13-15, or Thursday-Saturday, May 12-14. Kalamazoo College will host the team championships finals, which will be held May 23-28 at Stowe Stadium in Kalamzaoo, Michigan. Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 11.
The championships provide for a 49-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 39 conference champions, which form "Pool A." Two teams were selected from true independents and schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions (Pool B). The remaining eight teams are selected from those teams in conferences with automatic bids that did not win their conference's AQ and the remaining Pool B institutions (Pool C). The teams are geographically paired, whenever possible.
The champions of the following conferences received automatic qualification:
| AUTOMATIC QUALIFIERS | |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference |
Behrend College |
| American Southwest Conference |
The University of Texas at Tyler |
| Capital Athletic Conference |
University of Mary Washington |
| Centennial Conference |
Johns Hopkins University |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference |
Baruch College |
| College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin |
Wheaton College (Illinois) |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference |
Gwynedd Mercy University |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference |
Endicott College |
| Empire 8 |
Ithaca College |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference |
Simmons College |
| Great South Athletic Conference |
University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference |
Hanover College |
| Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Coe College |
| Landmark Conference |
Elizabethtown College |
| Liberty League |
Skidmore College |
| Little East Conference |
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association |
Hope College |
| Midwest Conference |
Grinnell College |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth |
Messiah College |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom |
Wilkes University |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Gustavus Adolphus College |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference |
Williams College |
| New England Women's and Men's Athletics Conference |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference |
The College of New Jersey |
| North Coast Athletic Conference |
Denison University |
| North Eastern Athletic Conference |
Colby-Sawyer College |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference |
Concordia University Wisconsin |
| Northwest Conference |
Lewis & Clark College |
| Ohio Athletic Conference |
John Carroll University |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference |
Washington and Lee University |
| Presidents' Athletic Conference |
Westminster College (Pennsylvania) |
| Skyline Conference |
Farmingdale State College |
| Southern Athletic Association |
University of the South |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
Claremont McKenna-Harvey Mudd-Scripps Colleges |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference |
Trinity University (Texas) |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference |
State University of New York at Geneseo |
| University Athletic Association |
Emory University |
| USA South Athletic Conference |
Methodist University |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater |
The following schools were selected to the championship from Pool B and Pool C candidates:
POOL "B" SELECTIONS
The College of St. Scholastica (19-6)
University of Northwestern-St. Paul (23-6)
POOL "C" SELECTIONS
Amherst College (12-7) Bowdoin College (12-6) University of Chicago (11-5) Middlebury College (13-4) Pomona-Pitzer Colleges (19-3) Tufts University (11-7) Washington University in St. Louis (15-8) Wesleyan University (Connecticut) (9-4)
Williams is the defending national champion, having defeated Emory, 5-4, to claim the team title.
