2015 NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championship

Football tournament season

2015 NCAA Division III Field Hockey ChampionshipTournament details

Country| United States
Teams| 24
Final positions
Champions| Middlebury Panthers
Runner-up| Bowdoin Polar Bears

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The 2015 NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championship will be the 35th women's collegiate field hockey tournament organized by the NCAA to determine the top Division III college field hockey team n the United States. The semifinals and championship match will be played at the Turf Field at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia from November 21–22, 2015. W&L is hosting for the second consecutive year.[1]

Middlebury defeated Bowdoin 1-0 in the final.[2]

TCNJ are the defending national champions.

## Qualified teams

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* A total of 24 teams qualified for the 2015 tournament. 19 teams received automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments and an additional five teams earned at-large bids based on their regular season records.[3]

### Automatic qualifiers

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Capital | Salisbury | 14–3
Centennial | Ursinus | 17–3
Colonial States | Cabrini | 12–8
Commonwealth Coast | New England | 16–6
Empire 8 | Stevens Tech | 13–7
Great Northeast | Simmons | 14–4
Landmark | Catholic | 13–6
Liberty League | William Smith | 17–2
Little East | Keene State | 16–7
MAC Commonwealth | Messiah | 15–5
MAC Freedom | Misericordia | 10–11
NECC | Becker | 11–11
NESCAC | Bowdoin | 18–0
NEWMAC | Mount Holyoke | 15–6
NJAC | TCNJ | 18–1
North Atlantic | Husson | 8–9
North Coast | DePauw | 15–4
ODAC | Bridgewater (VA) | 12–8
SUNYAC | SUNY New Paltz | 15–5

### At-large qualifiers

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Franklin & Marshall | Centennial  | 16–3
Middlebury | NESCAC  | 16–2
Rhodes | SAA | 15–5
Rochester (NY) | UAA | 16–5
Wellesley | NEWMAC  | 16–3

## Bracket

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| Play-In round
November 11, 2015
Campus sites | | | Second round
November 14, 2015
Campus sites | | | Third round
November 15, 2015
Campus sites | | | Semifinals
November 21, 2015
Lexington, Virginia
Turf Field | | | Championship
November 22, 2015
Lexington, Virginia
Turf Field |

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| | | |  | Bowdoin* | 5 | | | |
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| | |  | Keene State | 1 |
|  | Keene State* | 1 |

|  | Husson | 0 |
| |  | Bowdoin* | 3 |
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| | |  | Wellesley | 0 |
|  | New England* | 3 | |

|  | Becker | 1 |
| |  | New England | 0 |
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| | |  | Wellesley* | 3 |
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| |  | Bowdoin | 4 |
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| | |  | Ursinus | 2 |
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| |  | Salisbury* | 2 |
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| | |  | Rochester (NY) | 3 |
|  | Rochester (NY)* | 2 |

|  | Misericordia | 1 |
| |  | Rochester (NY) | 0 |
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| | |  | Ursinus* | 5 |
|  | Stevens Tech* | 3 | |

|  | Mount Holyoke | 1 |
| |  | Stevens Tech | 0 |
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| | |  | Ursinus* | 10 |
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| |  | Bowdoin | 0 |
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| | |  | Middlebury | 1 |
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| |  | William Smith* | 6 |
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| | |  | Bridgewater (VA) | 0 |
|  | Catholic* | 1 |

|  | Bridgewater (VA) | 2 |
| |  | William Smith* | 0 |
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| | |  | Middlebury | 3 |
|  | Franklin & Marshall* | 5 | |

|  | Cabrini | 1 |
| |  | Franklin & Marshall | 0 |
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| | |  | Middlebury* | 2 |
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| |  | Middlebury | 4 |
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| | |  | TCNJ | 1 |
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| |  | Messiah* | 3 |
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| | |  | SUNY New Paltz | 0 |
|  | SUNY New Paltz* | 1 |

|  | Simmons | 0 |
| |  | Messiah | 2 |
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| | |  | TCNJ* | 4 |
|  | Rhodes* | 5 | |

|  | DePauw | 1 |
| |  | Rhodes | 0 |
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| | |  | TCNJ* | 3 |

## See also

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* NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship
* NCAA Division II Field Hockey Championship

## References

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1. ^ "2014-18 NCAA Championship Sites". Ncaa.com. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
2. ^ "2015 Division III Field Hockey". NCAA. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
3. ^ "NCAA DIII field hockey committee selects championship bracket". Ncaa.com. Retrieved 2015-11-09.