INDIANAPOLIS --- The NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2016 NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Championship.
Division III Women's Volleyball Championship: Interactive Bracket | Printable Bracket
Forty-three conferences were awarded an automatic qualification for the 2016 championship. One institution was selected from Pool B, which includes independent institutions and institutions from conferences that do not meet the automatic qualification criteria. 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.
Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (43):
| Conference | Team |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Pittsburgh-Bradford |
| American Southwest Conference | Texas-Dallas |
| Capital Athletic Conference | Mary Washington |
| Centennial Conference | Johns Hopkins |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference | Hunter |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | Millikin |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Cabrini |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Endicott |
| Empire 8 | Ithaca |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Johnson & Wales (Rhode Island) |
| 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 | Hope |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | Stevenson |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Eastern |
| Midwest Conference | St. Norbert |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Gustavus Adolphus |
| New England Collegiate Conference | Regis College (Massachusetts) |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Middlebury |
| New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference | MIT |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | Montclair State |
| North Atlantic Conference | Maine Maritime Academy |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Wittenberg |
| North Eastern Athletic Conference | Gallaudet |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Concordia (Wisconsin) |
| Northwest Conference | Whitworth |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Ohio Northern |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Randolph-Macon |
| Presidents’ Athletic Conference | Bethany (West Virginia) |
| Skyline Conference | Farmingdale State |
| Southern Athletic Association | Hendrix |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Cal Lutheran |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Trinity (Texas) |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Greenville |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | College at Brockport |
| University Athletic Association | Emory |
| Upper Midwest Conference | Northwestern-St. Paul |
| USA South Athletic Conference | Meredith |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Wisconsin-Whitewater |
Pool B Berth (1):
New Rochelle
Pool C Berths (20):
- Calvin
- Carnegie Mellon
- Christopher Newport
- Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
- Clark (Massachusetts)
- Colorado College
- DePauw
- Elmhurst
- Heidelberg
- La Verne
- Ramapo
- St. Thomas (Minnesota)
- Southwestern (Texas)
- Springfield
- Stevens Institute of Technology
- Susquehanna
- Tufts
- Washington U. in St. Louis
- Wisconsin-La Crosse
- Wisconsin-Oshkosh
The women’s volleyball committee also announced the eight regional sites:
- Brockport – Brockport, New York
- Calvin – Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Mary Washington – Fredericksburg, Virginia
- Northwestern-St. Paul – St. Paul, Minnesota
- Stevens – Hoboken, New Jersey
- Texas-Dallas – Dallas, Texas
- Tufts – Medford, Massachusetts
- Wisconsin-Whitewater – Whitewater, Wisconsin
Regional competition will be Friday-Sunday, November 11-13, at all sites except Calvin, Northwestern-St. Paul and Wisconsin-Whitewater, where competition will be Thursday-Saturday, November 10-12.
In last year’s final, California Lutheran defeated Wittenberg to win its first NCAA championship in school history.