INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Committee has selected the 42 teams that will compete in the 2021 NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Championships.
The teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the first, second- and third-rounds played at predetermined sites, Friday-Sunday, May 14-16, or Thursday-Saturday, May 13-15. The University of the South and the Chattanooga Sports Commission will host the team championships finals, which will be held May 24-26 at Champions Tennis Club in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 12.
The championships provide for a 42-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 35 conference champions, which form "Pool A." Two teams will be selected from true independents and schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions (Pool B). The remaining 5 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:
| conference | team |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Penn St.-Behrend (6-2) |
| American Rivers Conference | Luther (12-4) |
| American Southwest Conference | Texas-Dallas (12-3) |
| Centennial Conference | Johns Hopkins (8-0) |
| Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference | Mary Washington (12-2) |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | North Central (IL) (14-5) |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Cairn (5-1) |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Endicott (9-0) |
| Empire 8 | Nazareth (8-0) |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Transylvania (9-1) |
| Landmark Conference | Moravian (10-0) |
| Liberty League | Skidmore (7-1) |
| Little East Conference | Rhode Island Col. (9-2) |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Hope (12-2) |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | York (PA) (10-1) |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Wilkes (13-0) |
| Midwest Conference | Grinnell (6-0) |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | St. Thomas (MN) (13-3) |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Wesleyan (CT) (6-0) |
| New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference | Babson (3-0) |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | TCNJ (10-0) |
| North Atlantic Conference | Penn St. Harrisburg (8-0) |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Kenyon (8-0) |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Concordia Wisconsin (12-5) |
| Northwest Conference | Linfield (12-2) |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | John Carroll (9-0) |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Wash. & Lee (14-2) |
| Presidents' Athletic Conference | Franciscan (8-3) |
| Skyline Conference | Farmingdale St. (6-2) |
| Southern Athletic Association | Millsaps (10-3) |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Southwestern (TX) (15-4) |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | SUNY New Paltz (7-0) |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | Northwestern-St. Paul (15-5) |
| USA South Athletic Conference | N.C. Wesleyan (10-6) |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Wis.-Whitewater (12-5) |
The following schools, listed alphabetically, were selected to the championship from Pool B and Pool C candidates:
| Pool "B" Selection |
|---|
| Emory (5-3) |
| WashU (8-3) |
| Pool "C" selection |
|---|
| Carnegie Mellon (12-2) |
| Denison (7-3) |
| Sewanee (8-2) |
| Tufts (6-1) |
| Williams (2-3) |
For more information about the championships, including the championships bracket, log on to www.ncaa.com
