INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA Division III Women’s Rowing Committee has selected the institutions that will compete in the 2026 NCAA Division III Women’s Rowing Championship. The field includes Bates, Trinity, Tufts, and Williams from the NESCAC.
The championships will be held May 29-30 at Lake Lanier Olympic Park in Gainesville, Georgia, with the University of North Georgia and the City of Gainesville serving as hosts.
The team championship is composed of eight teams. Each team is required to field two boats of eight rowers and a coxswain. Automatic qualification is granted to four conferences, which form “Pool A.” The remaining four teams are selected from “Pool C,” which includes teams that did not win their conference’s AQ, independents and institutions from conferences that do not meet automatic-qualification standards.
Conferences receiving automatic qualification are as follows:
| Conference |
Automatic Qualifier Team |
| Liberty League |
William Smith |
| Mid-Atlantic Rowing Conference |
Catholic |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference |
Bates |
| New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference |
Wellesley |
Pool C
- Puget Sound
- Trinity (Connecticut)
- Tufts
- Williams
The seeding for each boat classification is as follows:
| I Eights |
|
II Eights |
|
| 1 |
Bates |
1 |
Tufts |
| 2 |
Williams |
2 |
Trinity |
| 3 |
Tufts |
3 |
Williams |
| 4 |
Trinity |
4 |
Bates |
| 5 |
Wellesley |
5 |
William Smith |
| 6 |
William Smith |
6 |
Wellesley |
| 7 |
Puget Sound |
7 |
Puget Sound |
| 8 |
Catholic |
8 |
Catholic |
