Indianapolis – The NCAA Division III Field Hockey Commission today announced the field of 26 teams that will compete in the 2022 NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championship.
Twenty teams will compete in ten first-round matches at the campus site on Wednesday, November 9th. The 10 first round winner will compete at four campus sites during the second/third period, with six teams receiving first round byes. Round play, Saturday and Sunday, November 12th and 13th.
The winners of the four sites will advance to the semifinals and finals on Friday and Sunday, November 18 and 20, at Rowan University’s Richard Wacker Stadium in Glassboro, New Jersey. The semifinals will take place on Friday, November 18 at 12:00 pm and 3:00 pm and the championship game will take place on Sunday, November 20 at 1:00 pm ET. Championship information, including ticket information, http://www.ncaa.com/sports/fieldhockey/d3.
17 conferences have been given automatic champion qualification to the 2022 championship. One team was selected from Pool B. Pool B consists of independent institutions and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic eligibility. Finally, eight berths were reserved for Pool C, composed of non-conference champion auto-qualifying conference institutions and the remaining teams from Pool B.
The 17 conferences and schools with automatic qualification are:
- Eastern Atlantic: Cabrini
- Centennial Conference: Johns Hopkins
- Colonial States Athletic Conference: Wilson
- Commonwealth Coast Conference: University of New England
- Empire 8: Hartwick
- Great Northeast Athletic Conference: Johnson & Wales (Providence)
- Landmark: catholic
- Liberty League: William Smith
- Little East Conference: Castleton
- Mid-Atlantic Congress Federation: savior
- Freedom of the Mid-Atlantic Conference: sale
- New England Small College Athletic Conference: middlebury
- New England Women’s and Men’s Track and Field Games: Babson
- New Jersey Athletic Conference: Rowan
- North Coast Athletic Conference: Ohio Wesleyan
- Old Dominion Athletic Conference: Washington & Lee
- New York State University Athletic Meet: SUNY Cortland
Pool B teams are:
The eight teams in Pool C are:
- Christopher Newport
- MIT
- Rochester (NY)
- TCNJ
- Trinity (CT)
- Tufts
- Williams
- York (PA)
Dates, locations and pairings are listed in the attached full Championship Bracket. For more information on the championship, please log on to www.ncaa.com. In 2021, Middlebury won his 6th NCAA Championship, his 5th in the past 6 years, and won Trinity his College’s Robin L. Shepherd title on the field in his game. It was his fourth straight win after his 4–1 win at .
