NCAA DIVISION III WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL COMMITTEE SELECTS CHAMPIONSHIP FIELD
11/8/2010
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INDIANAPOLIS --- The NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Committee announced today the field of 63 teams for the 2010 NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Championship.
Forty-two conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the 2010 championship. Two teams were selected from Pool B, which consists of independent institutions and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification. The final 19 berths were reserved for Pool C, which consists of institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams.
Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification:
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Pittsburgh-Bradford
American Southwest Conference Hardin-Simmons
Capital Athletic Conference Frostburg State
Centennial Conference Franklin & Marshall
City University of New York Athletic Conference Hunter
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Carthage
Colonial States Athletic Conference Cabrini
Commonwealth Coast Conference Roger Williams
Commonwealth Conference Lebanon Valley
Empire 8 Ithaca
Freedom Conference Eastern
Great Northeast Athletic Conference Johnson & Wales (Rhode Island)
Great South Athletic Conference Piedmont
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Mount St. Joseph
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Wartburg
Landmark Conference Juniata
Little East Conference Massachusetts-Boston
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference Westfield State
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Hope
Midwest Conference Beloit
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference St. Olaf
New England Collegiate Conference Lesley
New England Small College Athletic Conference Middlebury
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference Coast Guard
New Jersey Athletic Conference Richard Stockton
North Atlantic Conference Maine Maritime
North Coast Athletic Conference Wittenberg
North Eastern Athletic Conference Gallaudet
Northern Athletics Conference Dominican (Illinois)
Northwest Conference Whitworth
Ohio Athletic Conference Heidelberg
Old Dominion Athletic Conference Randolph-Macon
Presidents' Athletic Conference Thomas More
Skyline Conference Polytechnic (New York)
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Cal Lutheran
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Colorado College
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Greenville
State University of New York Athletic Conference SUNY Cortland
Upper Midwest Conference Northwestern (Minnesota)
USA South Athletic Conference Christopher Newport
University Athletic Association Emory
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Association Wisconsin-Platteville
Pool B Berths (2):
Clarkson
Nebraska Wesleyan
Pool C Berths (19):
Amherst
Calvin
Case Western Reserve
Chicago
Concordia-Moorhead
New York University
Ohio Northern
Otterbein
Puget Sound
Southwestern (Texas)
Springfield
St. Thomas (Minnesota)
Stevens Institute of Technology
Tufts
Washington & Lee
Washington U. in St. Louis
Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Wisconsin-Whitewater
The women's volleyball committee also announced the final two regional sites:
Emory University - Atlanta, Georgia
Frostburg State University - Frostburg, Maryland
Regional competition will be Friday-Sunday, November 12-14, at all sites except Wittenberg, where competition will be Thursday-Saturday, November 11-13.
In last year's finals, Washington U. in St. Louis defeated Juniata by a score of 3-1 to capture its 10th national women's volleyball title.
The CBS Fall Seasonal Show (CSB Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA) will air on Saturday, December 18 at 1 pm Eastern on CBS HD.
