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NCAA.com | November 10, 2014

Field of 64 contenders announced for 2014 DIII Women's Volleyball Championship

DIII Women's Volleyball: 2014 Selection Show

INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Committee announced Monday the field of 64 teams for the 2014 NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Championship.

Interactive Bracket Printable Bracket

Forty-four conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the 2014 championship. The final 20 berths were reserved for Pool C, which consists of institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion. Based on sport sponsorship numbers for 2014-15, there were no Pool B berths for this year’s championship.

Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (44):
• Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference -- Franciscan
• American Southwest Conference -- Mary Hardin-Baylor
• Capital Athletic Conference -- Christopher Newport
• Centennial Conference -- Franklin & Marshall
• City University of New York Athletic Conference -- Hunter
• College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin -- Carthage
• Colonial States Athletic Conference -- Cabrini
• Commonwealth Coast Conference -- Roger Williams
• Commonwealth Conference -- Stevenson
• Empire 8 -- Stevens Institute of Technology
• Freedom Conference -- Eastern
• Great Northeast Athletic Conference -- Rivier
• Great South Athletic Conference -- Salem
• Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference -- Bluffton
• Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- Coe
• Landmark Conference -- Juniata
• Liberty League -- Clarkson
• Little East Conference -- Western Connecticut State
• Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference -- Framingham State
• Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association -- Calvin
• Midwest Conference -- Cornell College
• Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- St. Thomas (Minnesota)
• New England Collegiate Conference -- Regis College (Mass.)
• New England Small College Athletic Conference -- Williams
• New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference -- Babson
• New Jersey Athletic Conference -- Richard Stockton
• North Atlantic Conference -- Colby-Sawyer
• North Coast Athletic Conference -- Wittenburg
• North Eastern Athletic Conference -- Gallaudet
• Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference -- Dominican (Ill.)
• Northwest Conference -- Whitworth
• Ohio Athletic Conference -- Mount Union
• Old Dominion Athletic Conference -- Washington and Lee
• Presidents’ Athletic Conference -- Thomas More
• Skyline Conference -- The Sage Colleges
• Southern Athletic Association -- Hendrix
• Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- Cal Lutheran
• Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference -- Trinity (Texas)
• St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- Webster
• State University of New York Athletic Conference -- SUNY New Paltz
• University Athletic Association -- Emory
• Upper Midwest Conference -- Northwestern-St. Paul
• USA South Athletic Conference -- Maryville (Tenn.)
• Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Association -- Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Pool C Berths (20):
• Augsburg
• Bowdoin
• Chicago
• Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
• Colorado College
• DePauw
• Elmhurst
• Haverford
• Hope
• La Verne
• Millikin
• MIT
• Nebraska Wesleyan
• Pacific Lutheran
• Saint Benedict
• Springfield
• Tufts
• Washington U. in St. Louis
• Wisconsin-Oshkosh
• Wisconsin-Whitewater

The women’s volleyball committee also announced the eight regional sites:
• Cal Lutheran – Thousand Oaks, California
• Carthage – Kenosha, Wisconsin
• Christopher Newport – Newport News, Virginia
• Stevens – Hoboken, New Jersey
• St. Thomas (Minn.) – St. Paul, Minnesota
• Washington U. in St. Louis – St. Louis, Missouri
• Williams – Williamstown, Massachusetts
• Wittenberg – Springfield, Ohio

Regional competition will be Nov. 14-16 at all sites except Carthage, St. Thomas (Minn.) and Wittenberg, where competition will be Nov. 13-15.

DIVISION III WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES

SCHOOL APPEARANCES * LAST RECORD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Augsburg 3 2013 1-2 --
Babson First -- -- --
Bluffton 6 2013 0-5 --
Bowdoin 3 2012 3-2 --
Cabrini 5 2013 0-4 --
Cal Lutheran 15 2013 24-14 --
Calvin 24 2013 39-23 2 (2010, 2013)
Carthage 9 2011 11-8 --
Chicago 5 2013 3-4 --
Christopher Newport 12 2013 17-11 --
Claremont-M-S 6 2013 4-5 --
Clarkson 6 2013 8-5 --
Coe 2 2006 0-1 --
Colby-Sawyer 7 2013 3-6 --
Colorado College 25 2013 14-24 --
Cornell (Iowa) 4 2013 0-3 --
DePauw 5 2013 0-4 --
Dominican (Ill.) 4 2013 0-3 --
Eastern 15 2013 22-14 --
Elmhurst 19 2013 27-16 2 (1983, 1985)
Emory 20 2013 35-19 1 (2008)
Framingham State 2 2012 0-1 --
Franciscan First -- -- --
Franklin & Marshall 8 2010 3-7 --
Gallaudet 10 2013 2-9 --
Haverford 5 2009 4-4 --
Hendrix First -- -- --
Hope 12 2013 14-11 --
Hunter 9 2010 0-8 --
Juniata 34 2013 98-39 2 (2004, 2006)
La Verne 25 2012 50-22 2 (1982, 2001)
Mary Hardin-Baylor 2 2013 0-1 --
Maryville (Tenn.) 12 2013 1-11 --
MIT 16 2012 14-16 --
Millikin 6 2005 2-5 --
Mount Union 5 2013 4-4 --
Nebraska Wesleyan 15 2010 6-14 --
Northwestern (Minn.) 5 2013 1-4 --
Pacific Lutheran 10 2013 2-9 --
Regis (Mass.) First -- -- --
Richard Stockton 10 2013 3-9 --
Rivier 6 2013 0-5 --
Roger Williams 6 2013 1-5 --
Sage Colleges 3 2008 0-2 --
Saint Benedict 19 2013 17-18 --
Salem 2 2012 0-1 --
Springfield 11 2013 14-10 --
Stevens 8 2010 10-7 --
Stevenson 4 2013 3-3 --
SUNY New Paltz 5 2013 8-4 --
Thomas More 13 2013 5-12 --
Trinity (Texas) 21 2013 28-20 --
Tufts 7 2011 7-6 --
Washington (Mo.) 28 2013 94-18 10 (1989, 1991-96, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009)
Washington & Lee 13 2013 7-12 --
Webster 8 2013 0-7 --
Western Connecticut State 6 2003 3-5 --
Whitworth 6 2011 4-5 --
Williams 12 2013 17-11 --
Wisconsin-Oshkosh 16 2010 25-17 --
Wisconsin-Stevens Point 7 2013 5-6 --
Wisconsin-Whitewater 27 2013 45-25 2 (2002, 2005)
Wittenberg 20 2013 34-18 1 (2011)
* -- Includes 2014.

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