INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- On the heels of winnings its first-ever SCAC Women's Tennis Championship, 24th-ranked Colorado College qualified for nationals for the second time in program history and will compete in the 49-team 2026 NCAA Division III Women's Tennis Championships. Interactive Bracket | NCAA Release
Colorado College (20-3; 10-0 SCAC), the regular season and tournament champions of the SCAC, received a first-round bye and will travel to Claremont, Calif., to take on Pomona-Pitzer (10-8), who earned an at-large bid after dropping a 5-0 decision to top-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in the finals of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) final.
The CC Tigers swept their 12 SCAC opponents - 10 during the regular season and two in the conference tournament - without dropping a single team point.
This will be Colorado College's first national tournament appearance since 1986.
Teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the first-, second- and third-rounds played at regional sites, Friday-Sunday, May 8-10, or Thursday-Saturday, May 7-9. The University of the South in Chattanooga, Tennessee will host the team championships finals, which will be held May 18-22 at the Champions Tennis Club, in Chattanooga, Tennessee Student-athletes selected to the individual championships will be announced Wednesday, May 6.
The championship provides for a 49-team tournament. Automatic qualification (AQ) is granted to 37 conference champions. The remaining twelve teams will be selected from true independents, schools from conferences that do not have an automatic bid for their champions, and teams in conferences with an automatic bid that did not win their conferences AQ (At-Large). The teams are geographically paired, whenever possible.
