INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Softball Committee has announced the 62 teams that will compete in the Division III Softball Championship.
The regional round will be held May 16-18. Four teams will compete at 15 regional sites and two teams will compete at one regional site. The team advancing from each regional will compete in the super regional round May 23 and 24. The finals, hosted by East Texas Baptist University, will be held May 30 -June 5 at Bell Park at Taylor Field in Marshall, Texas. All rounds will use a double-elimination format, and the two-team regional will play a best-of-five series.
Forty-one conferences received an automatic qualification (Pool A). One institution was selected from Pool B, which includes independent institutions and schools from conferences that do not meet the automatic qualification criteria. The 20 remaining teams were selected on an at-large basis from automatic qualifying conferences and institutions included in Pool B.
The conferences and teams that received automatic qualification were:
| CONFERENCE | AUTOMATIC QUALIFIER |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Penn St.-Behrend |
| American Rivers Conference | Coe |
| American Southwest Conference | East Tex. Baptist |
| Atlantic East Conference | Centenary |
| Centennial Conference | Gettysburg |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference | John Jay |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | Ill. Wesleyan |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Western New England |
| Empire 8 | St. John Fisher |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Simmons Heartland |
| Collegiate Athletic Conference | Transylvania |
| Landmark Conference | Moravian |
| Liberty League | Rochester (NY) |
| Little East Conference | Eastern Conn. State |
| Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference | Framingham St. |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Trine |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | Eastern |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Lebanon Valley |
| Midwest Conference | Grinnell |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Saint Mary’s (MN) |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Williams |
| New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference | MIT |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | Rowan |
| North Atlantic Conference | Husson |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | DePauw |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Dominican |
| Northwest Conference | Linfield |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Baldwin Wallace |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Va. Wesleyan |
| Presidents' Athletic Conference | Westminster |
| Skyline Conference | Manhattanville |
| Southern Athletic Association | Berry |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Redlands |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Texas Lutheran |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Greenville |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | SUNY New Paltz |
| University Athletic Association | CWRU |
| United East Conference | Penn |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | Wis.-Superior |
| USA South Athletic Conference | Pfeiffer |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Wis.-Whitewater |
The 1 institution selected from Pool B was: Christopher Newport
The 20 institutions selected from Pool C were:
- Belhaven Bethel
- Calvin Central (IA)
- Chapman
- Huntingdon
- Maryville (TN)
- Mount Union
- Muskingum
- Roanoke
- Ramapo
- Randolph
- Macon
- RPI
- Salisbury
- Saint Benedict
- Tufts
- Wis.-Oshkosh
- Wis.-Stevens Point
- Wartburg
- WashU
Regional Sites and Host Institutions (16):
| Regional Site | Host Institution |
|---|---|
| Angola, Indiana | Trine |
| Bangor, Maine | Husson University |
| Bethlehem, Pennsylvania | Moravian University |
| Cleveland, Ohio | Case Western Reserve University |
| Glassboro, New Jersey | Rowan University |
| Greencastle, Indiana | DePauw University |
| Marshall, Texas | East Texas Baptist |
| McMinnville, Oregon | Linfield University |
| Medford, Massachusetts | Tufts University |
| Montgomery, Alabama | Huntingdon College |
| Newport News, Virginia | Christopher Newport University |
| Oshkosh, Wisconsin | University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh |
| Pella, Iowa | Central College (IA) |
| Salisbury, Maryland | Salisbury University |
| St. Louis, Missouri | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Virginia Beach, Virginia | Virginia Wesleyan University |
In 2023, Trine defeated Salisbury in the championship series to win its first NCAA softball championship. For more information about the Division III Softball Championship, log on to krikya18.com.
