The NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Committee has announced the eleven teams selected for the 2023 NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Championship. Of the eleven teams in the championship field, seven of the teams received automatic qualification berths as winners of their conference championship. One institution 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. Three institutions were selected from Pool C, which consists of institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that were not the conference champion and independent institutions.
Conferences and teams receiving automatic qualification:
Commonwealth Coast Conference: Suffolk
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Gust. Adolphus.
New England Hockey Conference: Norwich
New England Small College Athletic Conference: Amherst
Northeast Women’s Hockey League: Plattsburgh State
United Collegiate Hockey Conference: Nazareth
Women’s Northern Collegiate Hockey Association: Adrian
The Pool B team selected was University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and the three institutions selected from Pool C were Hamilton, Middlebury, and Colby.
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