(Portions of this story courtesy of the NCAA)
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- The 2013 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference women's soccer champion Trinity University Tigers, earned the program's fifth straight NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Championship bid on Monday afternoon. Interactive Bracket | Printable Bracket
The Tigers earned the SCAC automatic bid to the NCAA playoffs by virtue of their 5-0 win over Southwestern University yesterday afternoon. The SCAC championship was the fifth consecutive league crown for Trinity and assured the Tigers of their 19th appearance in NCAA postseason play since 1992.
In a match that will be played on the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University, Trinity (21-0-1) will travel to Bloomington, Ill., to take on Augustana (Ill.) College (12-4-4) in first round play on Friday, Nov. 15. Should the Tigers win, they would take on the winner of Illinois Wesleyan (12-2-5) and Transylvania University (14-4-2) the following day.
Forty-three conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the 2013 championship. One team was selected from Pool B, which consists of independent institutions, and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification. The final 20 berths were reserved for Pool C, which include institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams.
Sixteen four-team sites will conduct first- and second-round play on the first weekend of the championship, Nov. 15-16 or 16-17. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites Nov. 22-23 or 23-24. All matches, except the semifinals and final, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. Winners of the four sectionals will advance to the semifinals at Toyota Field in San Antonio on Dec. 6-7.
