Southwestern Volleyball is into the NCAA Championship for the tenth time, seventh consecutive visit, and are heading to Thousand Oaks, Calif. to face Chapman University on Friday, November 11th. Game times have not yet been sent, stay tuned to southwesternpirates.com for the most up-to-date information.
INDIANAPOLIS --- The NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2011 NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Championship.
Forty-two conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the 2011 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 20 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-Altoona
American Southwest Conference Hardin-Simmons
Capital Athletic Conference Salisbury
Centennial Conference Johns Hopkins
City University of New York Athletic Conference Baruch
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Carthage
Colonial States Athletic Conference Cabrini
Commonwealth Coast Conference Roger Williams
Commonwealth Conference Lebanon Valley
Empire 8 Nazareth
Freedom Conference Eastern
Great Northeast Athletic Conference River
Great South Athletic Conference Maryville (Tennessee)
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Rose-Hulman
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Cornell College
Landmark Conference Juniata
Little East Conference Massachusetts-Boston
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference Westfield State
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Calvin
Midwest Conference St. Norbert
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Concordia-Moorhead
New England Collegiate Conference Southern Vermont
New England Small College Athletic Conference Bowdoin
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference Springfield
New Jersey Athletic Conference Richard Stockton
North Atlantic Conference Colby-Sawyer
North Coast Athletic Conference Wittenberg
North Eastern Athletic Conference Gallaudet
Northern Athletics Conference Edgewood
Northwest Conference Whitworth
Ohio Athletic Conference Heidelberg
Old Dominion Athletic Conference Randolph-Macon
Presidents' Athletic Conference Geneva
Skyline Conference Polytechnic (New York)
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Occidental
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Colorado College
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Webster
State University of New York Athletic Conference SUNY Cortland
Upper Midwest Conference St. Scholastica
USA South Athletic Conference Christopher Newport
University Athletic Association Washington U. in St. Louis
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Association Wisconsin-Whitewater
Pool B Berths (2):
Clarkson
Skidmore
Pool C Berths (20):
Cal Lutheran
Bethel (Minnesota)
Chapman
Chicago
Elmhurst
Emory
Hiram
Hope
Middlebury
Mount Union
Northwestern (Minnesota)
Otterbein
Pacific Lutheran
Southwestern (Texas)
St. Benedict
St. Thomas (Minnesota
Stevenson
Tufts
Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Wisconsin-Stevens Point
The women's volleyball committee also announced the regional sites:
California Lutheran University – Thousand Oaks, California
Calvin College – Grand Rapids, Michigan
Christopher Newport University – Newport News, Virginia
Clarkson University – Potsdam, New York
Concordia College, Moorhead – Moorhead, Minnesota
Eastern University – Ashton, Pennsylvania (on the campus of Neumann College)
Springfield College – Springfield, Massachusetts
Washington University in St. Louis – St. Louis, Missouri
Regional competition will be Friday-Sunday, November 11-13, at all sites except Calvin, where competition will be Thursday-Saturday, November 10-12.
In last year's finals, Calvin defeated Emory by a score of 3-1 to capture its first Division III title in program history.