{"id":650147,"date":"2026-05-05T01:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/650147\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:20:08","slug":"miac-athletes-headed-to-ncaa-spring-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/650147\/","title":{"rendered":"MIAC athletes headed to NCAA spring championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>BLOOMINGTON, Minn.\u00a0\u2013 The NCAA announced its championship qualifiers for men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s tennis and men&#8217;s golf on Monday. Four Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) teams earned national championship selections.<\/p>\n<p>Men&#8217;s Tennis<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMIAC men&#8217;s tennis champion Gustavus (19-9) is headed to Chicago this weekend to take on UMAC champion Greenville (20-6) in the opening round of the 2026 NCAA Division III Men&#8217;s Tennis Championships. The University of Chicago will host the six-team regional, with the Gusties set for action at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 7. With a win, Gustavus would face the host Maroons (18-3) in the second round at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, May 8. The regional championship is slated for Saturday, May 9, at noon. The University of the South\u00a0will host the team championships finals from\u00a0May 19-22 at Champions Tennis Club in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Student-athletes selected to play in the individual championships will be announced on Wednesday, May 6.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/sports\/tennis-men\/d3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NCAA Men&#8217;s Tennis Home<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/brackets\/tennis-men\/d3\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Men&#8217;s Tennis Bracket<\/a> |<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s Tennis<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe MIAC women&#8217;s tennis champion Gusties (29-5) were selected to host regional play in the opening rounds of the 2026 NCAA Division III Women&#8217;s Tennis Championships. Gustavus received a bye to the second round, where the Gusties will take on either UW-La Crosse (20-2) or UW-Superior (19-7) at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 9. The regional championship is scheduled for noon on Sunday. The University of the South will host the team championships finals from\u00a0May 18-22 at the Champions Tennis Club in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Student-athletes selected to participate in the individual championships will be announced on Wednesday, May 6.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ncaa.com\/sports\/tennis-women\/d3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NCAA Women&#8217;s Tennis Home<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/brackets\/tennis-women\/d3\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Women&#8217;s Tennis Bracket<\/a> |<\/p>\n<p>Men&#8217;s Golf<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nA pair of MIAC men&#8217;s golf teams have been selected to participate in the 2026\u00a0NCAA Division III Men&#8217;s Golf Championships on May 12-15 at Mission Resort &amp; Club in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida. MIAC champion Bethel was one of 34 automatic qualifiers to the 43-team field, while Gustavus\u00a0received one of nine at-large bids.\u00a0Ten individual competitors were also selected from the remaining players who did not qualify with a team, for a total of 225 players.<\/p>\n<p>Oglethorpe University and the Greater Orlando Sports Commission will host the 2026 Championships.\u00a0The team and individual champions will be determined after 72 holes of play or the conclusion of the last fully completed round. First and second round competition will be played simultaneously on El Campeon and Las Colinas courses, with the final two rounds played on El Campeon. After 36 holes of competition, the field will be cut to the top 18 teams and the top six individuals not on one of those teams.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/news\/golf-men\/article\/2026-05-04\/teams-and-individuals-selected-2026-ncaa-diii-mens-golf-championships\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NCAA Men&#8217;s Golf Home<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/scoreboard.clippd.com\/tournaments\/243281\/scoring\/participants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live Scoring<\/a> |<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; BLOOMINGTON, Minn.\u00a0\u2013 The NCAA announced its championship qualifiers for men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s tennis and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-650147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}