Trinity Only SCAC Team In 2010 NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Championship Field

Trinity Only SCAC Team In 2010 NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Championship Field

(Portions of this story were taken from the NCAA website)

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer Committee announced today the field of 63 teams for the 2010 NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer Championship, and SCAC champion Trinity University was the only conference team selected for participation. Complete Bracket

Trinity (17-1-0) will take on 24th-ranked University of Puget Sound (Wash.) (17-1-2) in a first round match that will be played at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. If the sixth-ranked Tigers win, they will take on the winner of Hardin-Simmons (19-0-0) and Principia College (15-6-0).

Trinity's one loss this season came on Sept. 4 at Hardin-Simmons - a 4-0 defeat to the second-ranked Cowgirls in the Tigers' second game of the season.

Forty-two conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the 2010 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 are institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams.

One team will receive a first-round bye. One two-team first-round match will be played to determine the team that advances to the second round to play the team that received a first-round bye. Fifteen four-team sites will conduct first- and second-round play on the first weekend of the championship, November 13-14 or 14-15. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites November 20-21 or 21-22. 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 4-5, at Blossom Soccer Stadium in San Antonio, Texas.