| May 1, 2007
Women's Tennis Advances to NCAA Regionals INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Committee has selected the 48 teams that will compete in the NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Championships. The teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the first, second and third rounds played at regional sites. The quarterfinal, semifinal and final rounds of the team championship will be played May 15-17 and the individuals championships will be played May 18-20 at the University of Mary Washington Battleground Complex hosted by the University of Mary Washington. The championship provides for a 48-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 32 conference champions, which form "Pool A." Eight teams are selected from true independents and schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions (Pool B). The remaining eight teams are selected from those teams in conferences with automatic bids that did not win their conference's AQ and the remaining Pool B institutions (Pool C). The teams are geographically paired, whenever possible. The champions of the following conferences received automatic qualification: AUTOMATIC QUALIFIERS American Southwest Conference Hardin-Simmons (12-4) Capital Athletic Conference Mary Washington (20-2) Centennial Conference Johns Hopkins (16-3) City University of New York Athletic Conference Hunter (22-0) College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin Carthage (19-5) Commonwealth Coast Conference Roger Williams (13-3) Commonwealth Conference Moravian (14-3) Empire 8 Ithaca (10-6) Freedom Conference Wilkes (17-1) Great Northeast Conference Simmons (14-5) Great South Athletic Conference Huntingdon (10-6) Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Manchester (16-3) Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coe (16-5) Little East Conference Plymouth State (8-3) Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Albion (13-5) Midwest Conference Grinnell (11-7) Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Gustavus Adolphus (24-5) New England Small College Athletic Conference Amherst (14-4) New England Women's & Men's Athletics Conference Wellesley (19-3) North Coast Athletic Conference Denison (15-4) North Eastern Athletic Conference Bard (8-2) Northwest Conference Linfield (17-5) Ohio Athletic Conference Baldwin-Wallace (21-2) Old Dominion Athletic Conference Washington and Lee (20-1) Pennsylvania Athletic Conference Cabrini (12-4) Southern California Inter. Athletic Conference Pomona-Pitzer (18-6) Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Sewanee (University of the South) (19-1) St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Principia (9-6) State University of New York Athletic Conference New Paltz State (10-2) University Athletic Association Emory (13-8) USA South Athletic Conference Methodist (18-4) Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Wisconsin-La Crosse (18-5) POOL "B" SELECTIONS Chapman (4-8) Skidmore (10-7) UC Santa Cruz (3-9) St. Lawrence (15-2) Meredith (14-3) St. Scholastica (10-8) The College of New Jersey (14-1) Vassar (15-5) POOL "C" SELECTIONS Bowdoin (17-2) Middlebury (11-4) Carnegie Mellon (12-8) Swarthmore (12-6) Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (14-8) Tufts (11-6) DePauw (18-2) Williams (16-4) For more information about the Division III Women’s Tennis Championships, log on to www.ncaasports.com. |