INDIANAPOLIS --- The NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2015 NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Championship.
Forty-four conferences were awarded an automatic qualification for the 2015 championship. The final 20 berths were reserved for Pool C, which consists of institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and independent institutions. Based on sport sponsorship numbers for 2015-16, there were no Pool B berths for this year’s championship.
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Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (44):
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Franciscan
American Southwest Conference Texas-Dallas
Capital Athletic Conference Christopher Newport
Centennial Conference McDaniel
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
Empire 8 Ithaca
Great Northeast Athletic Conference Johnson & Wales (Rhode Island)
Great South Athletic Conference UC Santa Cruz
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Bluffton
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Wartburg
Landmark Conference Juniata
Liberty League Clarkson
Little East Conference Massachusetts Boston
Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Framingham State
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Calvin
Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth Stevenson
Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom Eastern
Midwest Conference Cornell College
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Gustavus Adolphus
New England Collegiate Conference Regis College (Massachusetts)
New England Small College Athletic Conference Bowdoin
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference Babson
New Jersey Athletic Conference Stockton
North Atlantic Conference Colby-Sawyer
North Coast Athletic Conference Wittenberg
North Eastern Athletic Conference Gallaudet
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Dominican (Illinois)
Northwest Conference Whitworth
Ohio Athletic Conference Heidelberg
Old Dominion Athletic Conference Randolph-Macon
Presidents’ Athletic Conference Thomas More
Skyline Conference Mount St. Vincent
Southern Athletic Association Hendrix
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Southwestern (Texas)
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Greenville
State University of New York Athletic Conference College of Brockport
University Athletic Association Washington U. in St. Louis
Upper Midwest Conference Northwestern-St. Paul
USA South Athletic Conference Covenant
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Association Wisconsin-Whitewater
Pool C Berths (20):
Amherst
Berry
Bethel (Minnesota)
Birmingham-Southern
Cal Lutheran
Case Western Reserve
Chicago
Colorado College
Elmhurst
Emory
Hope
Illinois Wesleyan
Mary Washington
MIT
Saint Benedict
Springfield
Williams
Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Wisconsin-La Crosse
Wisconsin-Stevens Point
The women’s volleyball committee also announced the eight regional sites:
Berry – Mount Berry, Georgia
Cal Lutheran – Thousand Oaks, California
Calvin – Grand Rapids, Michigan
Clarkson – Potsdam, New York
Juniata – Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
MIT – Cambridge, Massachusetts
Stockton – Galloway, New Jersey
Wisconsin-Whitewater – Whitewater, Wisconsin
Regional competition will be Friday-Sunday, November 13-15, at all sites except Berry, Calvin and Wisconsin-Whitewater, where competition will be Thursday-Saturday, November 12-14.
In last year’s final, Hope defeated Emory in five sets to win its first Division III women’s volleyball title
