INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA Division III Softball Committee has announced the 48 teams that will compete in the Division III Softball Championship.
The regional round will be held May 20-23. Six teams will compete at eight regional sites. The finals, hosted by Old Dominion Athletic Conference and city of Salem, will be held May 27-June 1 at Moyer Park in Salem, Virginia. All rounds will use a double-elimination format.
Forty-one conferences received an automatic qualification (Pool A). One institution was selected from Pool B, which includes independent institutions and schools from conferences that do not meet the automatic qualification criteria. The six remaining teams were selected on an at-large basis from automatic qualifying conferences and the remaining institutions in Pool B.
The conferences and teams that received automatic qualification were:
| CONFERENCE | TEAM |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Penn State-Behrend |
| American Rivers Conference | Coe |
| American Southwest Conference | East Texas Baptist |
| Centennial Conference | Gettysburg |
| Coast-to-Coast Conference | Salisbury |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | Millikin |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Cedar Crest |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Endicott |
| Empire 8 | Alfred |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Emmanuel (MA) |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Mount St. Joseph |
| Landmark Conference | Moravian |
| Liberty League | Rochester |
| Little East Conference | Eastern Connecticut State |
| Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference | Bridgewater State |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Calvin |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | York (PA) |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Midwest Conference | Illinois College |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | St. Thomas (MN) |
| New England Collegiate Conference | Eastern Nazarene |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Tufts |
| New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference | Babson |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | The College of New Jersey |
| North Atlantic Conference | Husson |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | DePauw |
| North Eastern Athletic Conference | Penn College |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Milwaukee School of Engineering |
| Northwest Conference | Linfield |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Ohio Northern |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Virginia Wesleyan |
| Presidents' Athletic Conference | Geneva |
| Skyline Conference | Farmingdale State |
| Southern Athletic Association | Birmingham-Southern |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Redlands |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Texas Lutheran |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Webster |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | SUNY Geneseo |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | Wisconsin-Superior |
| USA South Athletic Conference | Piedmont |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Wisconsin-Oshkosh |
The institution selected from Pool B is:
| Brandeis |
The 6 institutions selected from Pool C were:
| Belhaven |
| Christopher Newport |
| Emory & Henry |
| St. John Fisher |
| St. Olaf |
| Southern Maine |
REGIONAL SITES AND HOST INSTITUTIONS (8):
| Seguin, Texas – Texas Lutheran |
| Decatur, Illinois – Millikin |
| Bangor, Maine – Husson |
| Marshall, Texas – East Texas Baptist |
| Erie, Pennsylvania – Penn State-Behrend |
| Eau Claire, Wisconsin – Wisconsin-Eau Claire |
| Virginia Beach, Virginia – Virginia Wesleyan |
| Waverly, Iowa – Wartburg |
In 2019, Texas Lutheran defeated Emory in the championship series to win its first NCAA softball championship. For more information about the Division III Softball Championship, log on to ncaa.com
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— Courtesy NCAA
