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.vipkrikya888.com.
