The NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Committee has selected the 42 teams that will compete in the 2021 NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Championships. Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 12.
The teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the first, second- and third-rounds played at predetermined sites, Friday-Sunday, May 14-16, or Thursday-Saturday, May 13-15. The University of the South and the Chattanooga Sports Commission will host the team championships finals, which will be held May 24-26 at Champions Tennis Club in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Below is the full championship event schedule:
Team
- Friday, May 14 | First round
- Saturday, May 15 | Second round
- Sunday, May 16 | Third round
- Monday, May 24 | Quarterfinals | 8:30 a.m. ET on NCAA.com
- Tuesday, May 25 | Semifinals | 10 a.m. ET on NCAA.com
- Wednesday, May 26 | Final | 10 a.m. ET on NCAA.com
Singles
- Friday, May 28 | Round of 32 and 16 | 9 a.m. ET on NCAA.com
- Saturday, May 29 | Quarterfinals and semifinals | 9 a.m. ET on NCAA.com
- Sunday, May 30 | Final | 12 p.m. ET on NCAA.com
Doubles
- Friday, May 28 | Round of 16 | 9 a.m. ET on NCAA.com
- Saturday, May 29 | Quarterfinals | 9 a.m. ET on NCAA.com
- Sunday, May 30 | Semifinals and final | 9 a.m. ET on NCAA.com
Start times will be added once made available
The champions of the following conferences received automatic qualification:
| CONFERENCE | TEAM |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference | Penn St.-Behrend (6-2) |
| American Rivers Conference | Luther (12-4) |
| American Southwest Conference | Texas-Dallas (12-3) |
| Centennial Conference | Johns Hopkins (8-0) |
| Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference | Mary Washington (12-2) |
| College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin | North Central (IL) (14-5) |
| Colonial States Athletic Conference | Cairn (5-1) |
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Endicott (9-0) |
| Empire 8 | Nazareth (8-0) |
| Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference | Transylvania (9-1) |
| Landmark Conference | Moravian (10-0) |
| Liberty League | Skidmore (7-1) |
| Little East Conference | Rhode Island Col. (9-2) |
| Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Hope (12-2) |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | York (PA) (10-1) |
| Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom | Wilkes (13-0) |
| Midwest Conference | Grinnell (6-0) |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | St. Thomas (MN) (13-3) |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | Wesleyan (CT) (6-0) |
| New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference | Babson (3-0) |
| New Jersey Athletic Conference | TCNJ (10-0) |
| North Atlantic Conference | Penn St. Harrisburg (8-0) |
| North Coast Athletic Conference | Kenyon (8-0) |
| Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference | Concordia Wisconsin (12-5) |
| Northwest Conference | Linfield (12-2) |
| Ohio Athletic Conference | John Carroll (9-0) |
| Old Dominion Athletic Conference | Wash. & Lee (14-2) |
| Presidents’ Athletic Conference | Franciscan (8-3) |
| Skyline Conference | Farmingdale St. (6-2) |
| Southern Athletic Association | Millsaps (10-3) |
| Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference | Southwestern (TX) (15-4) |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | SUNY New Paltz (7-0) |
| Upper Midwest Athletic Conference | Northwestern-St. Paul (15-5) |
| USA South Athletic Conference | N.C. Wesleyan (10-6) |
| Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Wis.-Whitewater (12-5) |
The following schools, listed alphabetically, were selected to the championship from Pool B and Pool C candidates:
| POOL “B” SELECTION |
|---|
| Emory (5-3) |
| WashU (8-3) |
| POOL “C” SELECTION |
|---|
| Carnegie Mellon (12-2) |
| Denison (7-3) |
| Sewanee (8-2) |
| Tufts (6-1) |
| Williams (2-3) |
