INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Committee has announced the twelve teams selected for the 2025 NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Championship. Of the twelve teams in the championship field, eight of the teams received automatic qualification berths as winners of their conference championship. Four institutions were selected with at-large berths, which consists of institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that were not the conference champions and independent institutions.
- Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (8):
- Conference of New England, Endicott
- Middle Atlantic Conference, Wilkes
- Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Augsburg
- New England Hockey Conference, Elmira
- New England Small College Athletic Conference, Amherst
- State University of New York Athletic Conference, Plattsburgh State
- United Collegiate Hockey Conference, Nazareth
- Women's Northern Collegiate Hockey Association, St. Norbert
- At-large Berths (4):
- Colby
- Gustavus Adolphus
- Middlebury
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Four first-round games will be played on March 15, and four quarterfinal games will be played on March 22. All tournament games will be played on campus sites. First-round games will be played at 3 p.m. local time. Quarterfinal round games will be played at 3 p.m. local time.
The championship will be held March 28 and 30 at Hunt Arena in River Falls, Wisconsin, with the University of Wisconsin-River Falls serving as hosts. Two semifinal games will take place on Friday, March 28, at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Eastern and the championship game on Sunday, March 30, will be played at 4 p.m. Eastern. For more information, including live webcasting of all rounds of this year’s championship, visit krikya18.com.
In 2024, UW-River Falls defeated Elmira 4-1 for the NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Championship title and capped off a historic 31-0 season, the most wins in a season and the second undefeated season all-time in Division III women’s ice hockey history.
