INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Softball Committee selected the 64 teams that will compete in the Division III Softball Championship.
The regional round will be held May 15-17. Sixteen sites will host four teams at each regional site. The team advancing from each regional will compete in the super regional round May 22 and 23 hosted by eight institutions. The finals, hosted by Illinois Wesleyan University, will be held May 29 - June 4 at Inspiration Field in Bloomington, Illinois. All rounds will use a double-elimination format.
Forty-two conferences received an automatic qualification into the championship. The 22 remaining teams were selected on an at-large basis using the NCAA Power Index (NPI). The conferences and teams that received automatic qualification are:
- Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference – Pittsburgh-Greensburg
- American Rivers Conference – Nebraska Wesleyan
- American Southwest Conference – East Texas Baptist
- Atlantic East Conference – Marymount (Virginia)
- Centennial Conference – Swarthmore
- City University of New York Athletic Conference – John Jay
- College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Illinois Wesleyan
- Collegiate Conference of the South – Belhaven
- Conference of New England – Western New England
- Empire 8 – Alfred
- Great Northeast Athletic Conference – Johnson & Wales University (Providence)
- Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference – Transylvania
- Landmark Conference – Moravian
- Liberty League – Ithaca
- Little East Conference – Massachusetts Boston
- Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference – Worcester State
- Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Trine
- Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth – Messiah
- Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom – Lebanon Valley
- Midwest Conference – Lake Forest
- Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Saint Mary’s (Minnesota)
- New England Small College Athletic Conference – Tufts
- 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 – Concordia Wisconsin
- Northwest Conference – Linfield
- Ohio Athletic Conference – Mount Union
- Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Virginia Wesleyan
- Presidents' Athletic Conference – Westminster (Pennsylvania)
- Skyline Conference – Farmingdale State
- Southern Athletic Association – Berry
- Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Chapman
- Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference – St. Thomas (Texas)
- St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Greenville
- State University of New York Athletic Conference – SUNY Cortland
- University Athletic Association – Washington University in St. Louis
- United East Conference – Penn College
- Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – Bethany Lutheran
- USA South Athletic Conference – Pfeiffer
- Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin-Oshkosh
The 22 at-large institutions are:
- Baldwin Wallace
- Case Western Reserve
- Central (Iowa)
- Christopher Newport
- Eastern
- Emory
- Gettysburg
- Huntingdon
- Lewis & Clark
- Ramapo
- Randolph-Macon
- Redlands
- Rensselaer
- Texas Lutheran
- Salisbury
- Simpson
- Springfield
- Wartburg
- Wisconsin-Eau Claire
- Wisconsin-Stevens Point
- Wisconsin-Whitewater
- Williams
REGIONAL SITES AND HOST INSTITUTIONS (16):
- Angola, Indiana – Trine
- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – Moravian
- Bloomington, Illinois – Illinois Wesleyan
- Cleveland, Ohio – Case Western Reserve
- Gettysburg Pennsylvania – Gettysburg
- Glassboro, New Jersey – Rowan
- Ithaca, New York - Ithaca
- Marshall, Texas – East Texas Baptist
- McMinnville, Oregon - Linfield
- Minneapolis, Minnesota – Saint Mary’s
- Montgomery, Alabama – Huntingdon
- Newport News, Virginia – Christopher Newport
- Oshkosh, Wisconsin- Wisconsin-Oshkosh
- Salisbury, Maryland – Salisbury
- St. Louis, Missouri – WashU
- Virginia Beach, Virginia- Virginia Wesleyan
In 2024, East Texas Baptist defeated Belhaven in the championship series to win its first Division III title since 2010. For more information about the Division III Softball Championship, log on to krikya18.com.
