INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III women’s golf committee announced 34 teams and six individuals that will participate in the 2026 NCAA Division III Women’s Golf Championships.
Twenty-six conferences have been awarded automatic qualification, and the remaining eight teams were selected on an at-large basis from conferences and independent institutions. Six individuals, not from selected teams, were also selected for the championships.
The championships will consist of both team and individual competition conducted concurrently. Following 36 holes of competition, the field will be cut to the top 15 teams and the top six individuals not on one of those teams to compete in the final two rounds . In the team competition, the low four scores from each team for each day will count in the team’s total score.
The championships will be conducted May 19-22 at Desert Willow Golf Resort in Palm Desert, California. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges will serve as host.
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The selected teams and individuals are listed below in order of seeding:
TEAMS [AQ conference]:
1. Emory University
2. New York University [Liberty League]
3. Carnegie Mellon University
4. Williams College
5. Amherst College [New England Small College Athletic Conference]
6. Washington University in St. Louis
7. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges [Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]
8. Pomona-Pitzer Colleges
9. Middlebury College
10. Washington and Lee University
11. University of Redlands
12. Randolph-Macon College [Old Dominion Athletic Conference]
13. University of Mary Hardin-Baylor [American Southwest Conference]
14. Carleton College [Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]
15. Denison University [North Coast Athletic Conference]
16. Illinois Wesleyan University [College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin]
17. Grinnell College [St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]
18. The University of the South [Southern Athletic Association]
19. George Fox University [Northwest Conference]
20. University of Wisconsin-Stout [Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]
21. Piedmont University [USA South Athletic Conference]
22. LeTourneau University [Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference]
23. Marymount University (Virginia) [Centennial Conference]
24. Aurora University [Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference]
25. Saint Mary’s College (Indiana) [Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association]
26. University of Dubuque [American Rivers Conference]
27. University of Northwestern-St. Paul [Upper Midwest Athletic Conference]
28. Catholic University [Landmark Conference]
29. York College of Pennsylvania [Middle Atlantic Conference]
30. Ohio Northern University [Ohio Athletic Conference]
31. Washington and Jefferson College [Presidents’ Athletic Conference]
32. Suffolk University [Conference of New England]
33. Transylvania University [Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference]
34. State University of New York Cortland [Northeast Women’s Golf Conference]
INDIVIDUALS (seeded in the following order):
1. Yvette Gorden, Huntingdon College
2. Sydney Richards, Southern Virginia University
3. Becky Williams, DePauw University
4. Jessica Mason, Trinity University (Texas)
5. Amanda Phillips, Wesleyan University (Connecticut)
6. Aubrey Lee, Hamilton College
In 2025, Emory University won its second national championship in program history at Kingsmill Golf Resort & Spa in Williamsburg, Virginia, with a combined score of 1,168. Runner-up honors went to Carnegie Mellon University (1,181). Carys Code of Emory took home the individual title with an overall tournament score of 285.
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