Saturday, November 15th - First Round
Farmingdale State vs. Johns Hopkins - Time TBA
SUNY Geneseo vs. Frostburg State - Time TBA
Sunday, November 16th - Second Round
First Round Winners - Time TBA
Indianapolis, Ind. - The NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2014 Division III Women's Soccer Championship.
Farmingdale State (14-5-3) will face host school Johns Hopkins (16-3-1) in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday, November 15th. The other First Round game will feature SUNY Geneseo (16-2-2) and Frostburg State (13-4-5) with the winners playing in a Second Round game on Sunday, November 16th.
The Rams captured their eighth consecutive Skyline Conference Title with a 2-1 victory over Mount Saint Mary College on Saturday afternoon. Sophomore Alena Gannon (North Babylon, N.Y.) and junior Ashlee Thompson (Ronkonkoma, N.Y.) each recorded a goal in the Skyline Championship. Thompson, who was named the Tournament MVP, leads the team in goals (17) and points (44) this season.
Johns Hopkins received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament after falling on penalty kicks to Swarthmore in the Centennial Conference Championship game. Senior forward Hannah Kronick is the Jays offensive leader with 13 goals, including five game-winners and seven assists. Johns Hopkins enters the Tournament as the 22nd ranked team in the nation.
SUNY Geneseo, who is the 23rd-ranked team in Division III, earned an automatic bid after defeating Cortland in the SUNYAC Championship, 1-0. With the win, the Knights captured their sixth SUNYAC Championship in program history and earned their first automatic bid since 2009.
Frostburg State punched their ticket to the NCAA Tournament with a 2-0 win over Mary Washington in the Capital Athletic Championship game. The Bobcats earned their second conference championship victory in the last three seasons.
Forty-four conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the 2014 championship. The final 20 berths were reserved for Pool C, which include institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any Pool B teams. There were no separate berths awarded this year to Pool B, which consists of independent institutions, and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification.
Sixteen four-team sites will conduct first- and second-round play on the first weekend of the championship, November 14-15 or 15-16. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites November 21-22 or 22-23. All games, except the semifinals and final, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. Winners of the four sectionals will advance to the semifinals December 5-6, at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri.
In last year's final, William Smith defeated Trinity (Texas) by a score of 2-0, to win the championship.
Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (44)
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference - Pennsylvania State University, Erie, the Behrend College
American Southwest Conference - Hardin-Simmons University
Capital Athletic Conference - Frostburg State University
Centennial Conference - Swarthmore College
City University of New York Athletic Conference - Brooklyn College
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin - Wheaton College (Illinois)
Colonial States Athletic Conference - Cabrini College
Commonwealth Conference - Stevenson University
The Commonwealth Coast Conference - Roger Williams University
Empire 8 - Nazareth College
Freedom Conference - Misericordia University
Great Northeast Athletic Conference - Lasell College
Great South Athletic Conference - Salem College
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference - Hanover College
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - University of Dubuque
Landmark Conference - Catholic University
Liberty League - William Smith College
Little East Conference - Keene State College
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference - Worcester State University
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association - Hope College
Midwest Conference - Lake Forest College
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Augsburg College
New England Collegiate Conference - Lesley University
New England Small College Athletic Conference - Connecticut College
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference - Springfield College
New Jersey Athletic Conference - Montclair State University
North Atlantic Conference - Colby-Sawyer College
North Coast Athletic Conference - Kenyon College
North Eastern Athletic Conference - Penn State Berks College
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference - Aurora University
Northwest Conference - University of Puget Sound
Ohio Athletic Conference - Capital University
Old Dominion Athletic Conference - Lynchburg College
Presidents'Athletic Conference - Thomas More College
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Webster University
Skyline Conference - Farmingdale State College
Southern Athletic Association - Centre College
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - University of Redlands
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference - Trinity University (Texas)
State University of New York Athletic Conference - State University of New York at Geneseo
University Athletic Association - Carnegie Mellon University
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference - The College of St. Scholastica
USA South Athletic Conference - Maryville College (Tennessee)
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Association - University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Pool C Berths (20)
Allegheny College
Amherst College
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
University of Chicago
Christopher Newport University
Concordia College, Moorhead
Emory University
Gettysburg College
Illinois Wesleyan University
Ithaca College
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Messiah College
New York University
The College of New Jersey
The University of Texas at Tyler
Washington University in St. Louis
Williams College
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
To view the complete 2014 NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Tournament Bracket, click HERE.
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