INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Committee has selected the 64 institutions that will compete in the 2021 NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Championship.
The championship will be held Nov. 18-20 at Francis Fieldhouse in St. Louis, Missouri, with Washington University of St. Louis serving as host.
Forty-four conferences were awarded an automatic qualification for the 2021 championship. The final 20 berths were reserved for Pool C, consisting of institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion as well as independent institutions. Based on sport sponsorship numbers for 2021-22, there were no Pool B berths for this year’s championship.
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Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (44):
| Conference | School |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Penn State-Behrend |
| American Rivers Conference | Wartburg |
| American Southwest Conference | Texas-Dallas |
| Atlantic East Conference | Cabrini |
| Centennial Conference | Johns Hopkins |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference | Brooklyn |
| Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference | Christopher Newport |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Cedar Crest |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Endicott |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | Illinois Wesleyan |
| Empire 8 | St. John Fisher |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Johnson & Wales University (Providence) |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Transylvania |
| 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 | Eastern University |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Midwest Conference | Cornell College |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Gustavus Adolphus |
| New England Collegiate Conference | Eastern Nazarene |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Bowdoin |
| New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference | MIT |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | Rowan |
| North Atlantic Conference | Maine Maritime |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Wittenberg |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Aurora |
| Northwest Conference | Whitworth |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Ohio Northern |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Washington & Lee |
| Presidents' Athletic Conference | Westminster (Pennsylvania) |
| Skyline Conference | Merchant Marine |
| Southern Athletic Association | Berry |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Trinity (Texas) |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Greenville |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | SUNY Cortland |
| United East Conference | Gallaudet |
| University Athletic Association | New York University |
| Upper Midwest Conference | Northwestern-St. Paul |
| USA South Athletic Conference | Southern Virginia |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Wisconsin-Eau Claire |
Pool C Berths (20):
- Babson
- Bethel (Minnesota)
- Colorado College
- Emory
- Haverford
- Hope
- Ithaca
- Middlebury
- Otterbein
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Scranton
- Southwestern (Texas)
- Springfield
- Stevenson
- Susquehanna
- Tufts
- University of Chicago
- Wesleyan (Connecticut)
- Wisconsin-Stevens Point
- Wisconsin-Whitewater
The women’s volleyball committee also announced the eight regional sites:
- Atlanta, Georgia – Emory, host
- Baltimore, Maryland – Johns Hopkins, host
- Cambridge, Massachusetts – MIT host
- Eau Claire, Wisconsin – Wisconsin-Eau Claire, host
- Grand Rapids, Michigan – Calvin, host
- Hoboken, New Jersey – Stevens, host
- Rochester, New York – RIT, host
- Waverly, Iowa – Wartburg, host
Regional competition will be Friday-Sunday, Nov. 12-14, at all sites except Atlanta, Grand Rapids and Eau Claire, where competition will be Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 11-13.
In the 2019 final, Johns Hopkins defeated Emory to win its first NCAA volleyball championship in school history. The 2020 championship was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
For championship information and results, including live streaming of championship action, log on to NCAA.com.
