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krikyasport.com | November 17, 2025

2025 NCAA Division III women's volleyball championship selections

DIII women's volleyball: 2025 selection show

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Committee has selected the 64 institutions that will compete in the 2025 NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Championship.

The championship will be held Dec. 3-6 at the Shirk Center in Bloomington, Illnois, with Illnois Wesleyan University serving as hosts.

Forty-three conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the 2025 championship, and the remaining 21 teams were selected at-large.  

Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (43):

CONFERENCE TEAM
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Penn State-Behrend
American Rivers Conference Coe
American Southwest Conference East Texas Baptist
Atlantic East Conference Marymount (Virginia)
Centennial Conference Johns Hopkins
City University of New York Athletic Conference John Jay
Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference Christopher Newport
Conference of New England Wentworth
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Illinois Wesleyan
Collegiate Conference of the South Asbury University
Empire 8 St. John Fisher
Great Northeast Athletic Conference Lasell
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Hanover
Landmark Conference Juniata
Liberty League Ithaca
Little East Conference Plymouth State
Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Bridgewater State
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Calvin
Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth Stevenson
Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom Stevens Institute of Technology
Midwest Conference Cornell College
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Saint Benedict
New England Small College Athletic Conference Tufts
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference MIT
New Jersey Athletic Conference Kean
North Atlantic Conference Maine Maritime
North Coast Athletic Conference Wittenberg
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Edgewood
Northwest Conference Pacific Lutheran
Ohio Athletic Conference Otterbein
Old Dominion Athletic Conference Washington and Lee
Presidents’ Athletic Conference Grove City
Skyline Conference Manhattanville
Southern Athletic Association Berry
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Colorado College
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Greenville
State University of New York Athletic Conference SUNY Cortland
United East Conference St. Mary’s (Maryland)
University Athletic Association Carnegie Mellon
Upper Midwest Conference Northwestern-St. Paul
USA South Athletic Conference Southern Virginia
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Wisconsin-Oshkosh

At-Large Berths (21): 

TEAM
Babson
Colby
Dubuque
Emory
Franklin & Marshall
Gustavus Adolphus
Hope
La Verne
Lynchburg
New York University
Salisbury
Springfield
St. Olaf
Trinity (Texas)
Virginia Wesleyan
Washington University in St. Louis
Wesleyan (Connecticut)
William Smith
Williams
Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Wisconsin-Whitewater

The women’s volleyball committee also announced the eight regional sites:

  • Carnegie Mellon - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Illinois Wesleyan - Bloomington, Illinois
  • Johns Hopkins - Baltimore, Maryland
  • MIT - Cambridge, Massachusetts 
  • Tufts - Medford, Massachusetts
  • Virginia Wesleyan - Virginia Beach, Virginia
  • Wesleyan (Connecticut) - Middletown, Connecticut
  • Wisconsin-Oshkosh - Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Regional competition will be Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 20-22, at all sites.

In the 2024 final, Juniata defeated Wisconsin-Whitewater College to win its third consecutive and fifth NCAA volleyball championship in school history.

For championship information and results, including live streaming of championship action, log on to krikyasport.com.  

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