INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. â The NCAA Division III Womenâs Volleyball Committee has selected the 64 institutions that will compete in the 2022 NCAA Division III Womenâs Volleyball Championship.
The championship will be held Nov. 16-19 at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse in Pittsburgh, with Saint Vincent College serving as host.
Forty-four conferences were awarded an automatic qualification for the 2022 championship. The final 19 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 2022-23, there will be one Pool B berth for this yearâs championship.
Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (44):
| Conference | School |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Alfred State |
| American Rivers Conference | Coe |
| American Southwest Conference | Texas-Dallas |
| Atlantic East Conference | Marymount (Virginia) |
| Centennial Conference | Johns Hopkins |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference | Hunter |
| Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference | Mary Washington |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Cedar Crest |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Endicott |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | North Park |
| Empire 8 | St. John Fisher |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Johnson & Wales University (Providence) |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Transylvania |
| Landmark Conference | Juniata |
| Liberty League | Ithaca |
| Little East Conference | Keene State |
| Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference | Westfield 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 | Tufts |
| New England Womenâs and Menâs 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 | Puget Sound |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Otterbein |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Randolph-Macon |
| Presidentsâ Athletic Conference | Bethany (West Virginia) |
| Skyline Conference | Manhattanville |
| Southern Athletic Association | Berry |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Texas Lutheran |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Fontbonne |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | SUNY Cortland |
| United East Conference | SUNY Morrisville |
| University Athletic Association | Emory |
| Upper Midwest Conference | Northwestern-St. Paul |
| USA South Athletic Conference | Southern Virginia |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Wisconsin-Whitewater |
Pool B Berths (1):
Covenant (Independent)
Pool C Berths (19):
Babson
Carnegie Mellon
Hope
Millikin
New York University
Salisbury
Scranton
Stevenson
Swarthmore
Trinity (Texas)
UC Santa Cruz
University of Chicago
Washington University in St. Louis
Wesleyan (Connecticut)
Williams
Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Wisconsin-Stevens Point
The womenâs volleyball committee also announced the eight regional sites:
| Location | Host |
|---|---|
| Claremont, California | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps |
| Lexington, Kentucky | Transylvania |
| Middletown, Conneticut | Wesleyan (Connecticut) |
| Fredericksburg, Virginia | Mary Washington |
| Grand Rapids, Michigan | Calvin |
| St. Paul, Minnesota | Northwestern-St.Paul |
| Huntingdon, Pennsylvania | Juniata |
| Medford, Massachusetts | Tufts |
Regional competition will be Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 10-12, at all sites.
In the 2021 final, Wisconsin-Eau Claire defeated Calvin to win its first NCAA volleyball championship in school history
For championship information and results, including live streaming of championship action, log on to krikya18.com.
