(Portions of this story were taken from the NCAA website)
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) will send two teams to the 2014 NCAA Division III Volleyball Championship. Interactive Bracket | Printable Bracket
The NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Committee announced today the field of 64 teams for the 2014 NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Championship, and Colorado College and Trinity University both received bids.
This marks the 10th consecutive season (2005-Present) and 14th overall time that the SCAC has placed at least two teams into NCAA volleyball postseason competition.
SCAC champion and 21st-ranked Trinity University (28-9), along with 15th-ranked Colorado College (29-8), were both sent to Thousand Oaks, California where California Lutheran University will serve as one of eight regional hosting sites.
Trinity will play Northwest Conference champion, Whitworth University (21-5) and Colorado College will play Pacific Lutheran (21-4) - an at large team also from the Northwest Conference - in first round play. With the bracket design, and if both teams continue to advance, there is the potential for an all SCAC region final.
Few teams bring as much tournament experience to the dance as the two SCAC participants. Only three schools have more overall tournament appearnaces than Colorado College's 25 and just six can claim as many appearances as Trinity's 21.
DIVISION III WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES
1) Juniata College - 34
2) Washington (Mo.) University - 28
3) University of Wisconson-Whitewater - 27
T4) COLORADO COLLEGE - 25
T4) University of La Verne - 25
6) Calvin College - 24
7) TRINITY UNIVERSITY - 21
This will be Colorado College's 17th straight tournament appearance and Trinity has appeared in 21 of the last 23 NCAA championships.
Forty-four conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the 2014 championship. The final 20 berths were reserved for Pool C, which consists of schools from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion. There were no Pool B berths for this year's championship.
Regional competition will be Friday-Sunday, November 14-16 at all sites except Carthage, St. Thomas (Minn.) and Wittenberg, where competition will be Nov. 13-15. The quarterfinals, semifinals and finals slated for Thursday-Saturday, November 21-23, at the Freeman Center on the campus of Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va..
