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INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Committee has selected the 49 teams that will compete in the 2026 NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Championship.
The teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the first-, second- and third-rounds played at regional sites, Friday-Sunday, May 8-10, or Thursday-Saturday, May 7-9. The University of the South in Chattanooga, Tennessee will host the team championships finals, which will be held May 18-22 at the Champions Tennis Club, in Chattanooga, Tennessee Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 6.
The championship provides for a 49-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 37 conference champions. The remaining twelve teams will be selected from true independents, schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions, and teams in conferences with an automatic bid that did not win their conferences AQ (At-Large). The teams are geographically paired, whenever possible.
The champions of the following conferences received automatic qualification:
Automatic qualifiers
Conference
Team
American Rivers Conference
Luther College
American Southwest Conference
Mary Hardin-Baylor
Centennial Conference
Swarthmore
College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin
Wheaton (Illinois)
Collegiate Conference of the South
Asbury
Conference of New England
Nichols
CUNYAC
Hunter
Empire 8
Hartwick
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference
Rose-Hulman
Landmark Conference
Moravian
Liberty League
Rensselaer
Little East
Rhode Island College
MAC Commonwealth
Albright
MAC Freedom
Stevens Institute of Technology
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Hope
Midwest Conference
Grinnell
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Gustavus Adolphus
NESCAC
Wesleyan
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic
Babson
NJAC
TCNJ
North Atlantic Conference
Simmons
North Coast Athletic Conference
Kenyon
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference
Illinois Institute of Technology
Northwest Conference
Whitman
ODAC
Washington and Lee
Ohio Athletic Conference
Ohio Northern
Presidents’ Athletic Conference
Allegheny
Skyline Conference
Manhattanville
Southern Athletic Association
Trinity (Texas)
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference
Colorado College
SUNYAC
SUNY New Paltz
United East
St. Mary’s College (Maryland)
University Athletic Association
University of Chicago
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference
Wisconsin-Superior
USA South Athletic Conference
North Carolina Wesleyan
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Wisconsin-La Crosse
The following schools, listed alphabetically, were selected to the championship from At-Large candidates:
At-large selection
Amherst
Bowdoin
Carnegie Mellon
Case Western Reserve
Emory
Johns Hopkins
Middlebury
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pomona-Pitzer
Tufts
Washington University in St. Louis
Williams
Washington University in St. Louis is the defending national champion, having defeated Pomona-Pitzer 4-3 to take the team title in 2025. For more information about the championships, including the championships bracket, log on to www.ncaa.com.
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