INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Softball Committee chosen the 64 groups that can compete within the Division III Softball Championship.
The regional spherical might be held Might 15-17. Sixteen websites will host 4 groups at every regional web site. The staff advancing from every regional will compete within the tremendous regional spherical Might 22 and 23 hosted by eight establishments. The finals, hosted by Illinois Wesleyan College, might be held Might 29 – June 4 at Inspiration Discipline in Bloomington, Illinois. All rounds will use a double-elimination format.
Forty-two conferences acquired an automated qualification into the championship. The 22 remaining groups have been chosen on an at-large foundation utilizing the NCAA Energy Index (NPI). The conferences and groups that acquired automated qualification are:
- Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Convention – Pittsburgh-Greensburg
- American Rivers Convention – Nebraska Wesleyan
- American Southwest Convention – East Texas Baptist
- Atlantic East Convention – Marymount (Virginia)
- Centennial Convention – Swarthmore
- Metropolis College of New York Athletic Convention – John Jay
- Faculty Convention of Illinois and Wisconsin – Illinois Wesleyan
- Collegiate Convention of the South – Belhaven
- Convention of New England – Western New England
- Empire 8 – Alfred
- Nice Northeast Athletic Convention – Johnson & Wales College (Windfall)
- Heartland Collegiate Athletic Convention – Transylvania
- Landmark Convention – Moravian
- Liberty League – Ithaca
- Little East Convention – Massachusetts Boston
- Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Convention – Worcester State
- Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Affiliation – Trine
- Center Atlantic Convention Commonwealth – Messiah
- Center Atlantic Convention Freedom – Lebanon Valley
- Midwest Convention – Lake Forest
- Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Convention – Saint Mary’s (Minnesota)
- New England Small Faculty Athletic Convention – Tufts
- New England Girls’s and Males’s Athletic Convention – MIT
- New Jersey Athletic Convention – Rowan
- North Atlantic Convention – Husson
- North Coast Athletic Convention – DePauw
- Northern Athletics Collegiate Convention – Concordia Wisconsin
- Northwest Convention – Linfield
- Ohio Athletic Convention – Mount Union
- Previous Dominion Athletic Convention – Virginia Wesleyan
- Presidents’ Athletic Convention – Westminster (Pennsylvania)
- Skyline Convention – Farmingdale State
- Southern Athletic Affiliation – Berry
- Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Convention – Chapman
- Southern Collegiate Athletic Convention – St. Thomas (Texas)
- St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Convention – Greenville
- State College of New York Athletic Convention – SUNY Cortland
- College Athletic Affiliation – Washington College in St. Louis
- United East Convention – Penn Faculty
- Higher Midwest Athletic Convention – Bethany Lutheran
- USA South Athletic Convention – Pfeiffer
- Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Convention – Wisconsin-Oshkosh
The 22 at-large establishments are:
- Baldwin Wallace
- Case Western Reserve
- Central (Iowa)
- Christopher Newport
- Jap
- Emory
- Gettysburg
- Huntingdon
- Lewis & Clark
- Ramapo
- Randolph-Macon
- Redlands
- Rensselaer
- Texas Lutheran
- Salisbury
- Simpson
- Springfield
- Wartburg
- Wisconsin-Eau Claire
- Wisconsin-Stevens Level
- 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 Information, Virginia – Christopher Newport
- Oshkosh, Wisconsin– Wisconsin-Oshkosh
- Salisbury, Maryland – Salisbury
- St. Louis, Missouri – WashU
- Virginia Seaside, Virginia– Virginia Wesleyan
In 2024, East Texas Baptist defeated Belhaven within the championship sequence to win its first Division III title since 2010. For extra details about the Division III Softball Championship, go browsing to ncaa.com.
