INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Softball Committee selected the 64 teams that will compete in the Division III softball championship.
The regional round will be held May 14-16. Sixteen sites will host four teams at each regional site. The team advancing from each regional will compete in the super regional round May 21 and 22 hosted by eight institutions. The finals, hosted by the City of Salem and the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, will be held May 28-June 3 at Moyer Sports Complex in Salem, Virginia. All rounds will use a double-elimination format.
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Forty-two conferences received an automatic qualification into the championship. The 22 remaining teams were selected on an at-large basis using the NCAA Power Index (NPI). The conferences and teams that received automatic qualification are:
| Conference | Team |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Penn State-Behrend |
| American Rivers Conference | Simpson |
| American Southwest Conference | East Texas Baptist |
| Atlantic East Conference | Marymount (Virginia) |
| Centennial Conference | Swarthmore |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference | John Jay |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | Illinois Wesleyan |
| Collegiate Conference of the South | Belhaven |
| Conference of New England | Endicott |
| Empire 8 | Alfred |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Albertus Magnus |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Earlham |
| Landmark Conference | Moravian |
| Liberty League | Rochester (New York) |
| Little East Conference | Massachusetts Dartmouth |
| Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference | Westfield State |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Trine |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | Messiah |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Lebanon Valley |
| Midwest Conference | Illinois College |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Saint Benedict |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Middlebury |
| New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | Rowan |
| North Atlantic Conference | Husson |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Denison |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Dominican (Illinois) |
| Northwest Conference | Linfield |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Capital |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Virginia Wesleyan |
Presidents' Athletic Conference |
Westminster (Pennsylvania) |
| Skyline Conference | Manhattanville |
| Southern Athletic Association | Berry |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Redlands |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Texas Lutheran |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Greenville |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | SUNY Cortland |
| University Athletic Association | Washington University in St. Louis |
| United East Conference | Penn College |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | Bethany Lutheran |
| USA South Athletic Conference | Pfeiffer |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Wisconsin-Stevens Point |
The 22 at-large institutions are:
| Teams |
|---|
| Bowdoin |
| Calvin |
| Case Western Reserve |
| Central (Iowa) |
| Christopher Newport |
| Colby |
| Emory |
| Huntingdon |
| Loras |
| MIT |
| Mount Union |
| Muhlenberg |
| Muskingum |
| Pacific Lutheran |
| Saint Mary’s (Minnesota) |
| Stockton |
| University of St. Thomas (Texas) |
| Transylvania |
| Trinity (Texas) |
| Tufts |
| Wartburg |
| Wisconsin-Oshkosh |
REGIONAL SITES AND HOST INSTITUTIONS (16):
- Alliance, Ohio – Mount Union
- Angola, Indiana – Trine
- Bangor, Maine – Husson
- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – Moravian
- Indianola, Iowa – Simpson
- Jackson, Mississippi – Belhaven
- Marshall, Texas – East Texas Baptist
- McMinnville, Oregon – Linfield
- Medford, Massachusetts – Tufts
- Seguin, Texas – Texas Lutheran
- St. Louis, Missouri – WashU
- Swarthmore, Pennsylvania – Swarthmore
- Virginia Beach, Virginia – Virginia Wesleyan
- Waverly, Iowa – Wartburg
- Winona, Minnesota – Saint Mary’s
- Worcester, Massachusetts – WPI
In 2025, Trine defeated Va. Wesleyan in the championship series to win its second Division III title in three seasons. For more information about the Division III softball championship, log on to krikya188.com.
