INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Softball Committee has announced the 62 teams that will compete in the Division III Softball Championship.
The regional round will be held May 13-15. Four teams will compete at 15 regional sites and two teams will compete at one regional site. The team advancing from each regional will compete in the super regional round May 20 and 21. The finals, hosted by Old Dominion Athletic Conference and City of Salem, will be held May 26-May 31 at Moyer Park in Salem, Virginia. All rounds will use a double-elimination format.
Forty-three conferences received an automatic qualification (Pool A). No institutions were selected from Pool B, which includes independent institutions and schools from conferences that do not meet the automatic qualification criteria. The 19 remaining teams were selected on an at- large basis from automatic qualifying conferences and institutions included in Pool B.
The conferences and teams that received automatic qualification were:
| Conference | School |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Penn State-Behrend |
| American Rivers Conference | Wartburg |
| American Southwest Conference | Belhaven |
| Atlantic East Conference | Cabrini |
| Coast-to-Coast Conference | Christopher Newport |
| Centennial Conference | Muhlenberg |
| City University of New York Athletic Conference | Hunter |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | Illinois Wesleyan |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Wilson |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Endicott |
| Empire 8 | Alfred |
| Great Northeast Athletic Conference | Johnson & Wales University (Providence) |
| Heartland Athletic Conference | Mount St. Joseph |
| Landmark Conference | Susquehanna |
| Liberty League | Rochester |
| Little East Conference | Eastern Connecticut State |
| Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference | Framingham State |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Trine |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | Messiah |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Midwest Conference | Illinois College |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Bethel (Minnesota) |
| New England Collegiate Conference | Lesley |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Amherst |
| New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference | WPI |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | Rowan |
| North Atlantic Conference | Husson |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Hiram |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Concordia Wisconsin |
| Northwest Conference | Linfield |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | Ohio Northern |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Virginia Wesleyan |
| Presidents' Athletic Conference | Waynesburg |
| Skyline Conference | Farmingdale State |
| Southern Athletic Association | Berry |
| Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Chapman |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Texas Lutheran |
| St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Fontbonne |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | SUNY Geneseo |
| United East Conference | Penn State-Berks |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | Bethany Lutheran College |
| USA South Athletic Conference | Piedmont |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Wisconsin-Eau Claire |
Arcadia
Babson
Buena Vista
Case Western Reserve
East Texas Baptist
MIT
Nebraska Wesleyan
North Central
Randolph-Macon
Roanoke
Saint Benedict
Salisbury
The College of New Jersey
Tufts
Washington University in St. Louis
Ashland, Virginia – Randolph-Macon
Geneseo, New York – SUNY Geneseo
Glenside, Pennsylvania – Arcadia
Greencastle, Indiana – DePauw
Marshall, Texas – East Texas Baptist
Medford, Massachusetts – Tufts
Newport News, Virginia – Christopher Newport
Seguin, Texas – Texas Lutheran
St. Paul, Minnesota – Bethel (Minnesota)
