2026 DIII girls’s lacrosse championship: Bracket, schedule, choices

The 2026 DIII girls’s lacrosse championship continues Sunday, May 10 and can conclude on Sunday, May 24 at Judson Stadium in Rochester, NY.

Here is all the things it’s essential know for the 2026 DIII girls’s lacrosse match.

WATCH LIVE: 2026 DIII girls’s lacrosse championship rounds

The championship bracket was revealed on Monday, May 4 by way of a range present right here on NCAA.com. The single-elimination match contains a 47-team subject, with thirty-one groups incomes computerized qualification whereas the remaining 16 groups have been chosen by means of at-large bids.

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2026 DIII girls’s lacrosse bracket

2026 DIII girls’s lacrosse match schedule

• Selection present: Monday, May 4 on NCAA.com
• Second spherical:
• Regionals: May 16-17
• Championship: Judson Stadium, Rochester NY, reside on NCAA.com
  • Semifinals: Friday, May 22
  • Finals: Sunday, May 24

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• First spherical: Friday, May 8
• First spherical
  • Saturday, May 9
    • Union (New York) 21, Mount Union 5
    • Wooster 16, Farmingdale State 8
    • Carthage 14, Transylvania 7
    • Chris. Newport 17, Meredith 6
    • Cortland 14, Colby 8
    • Franklin & Marshall 21, Neumann 4
    • Gettysburg 26, Husson 4
    • Haverford 19, Endicott 9
    • Messiah 21, Worcester State 8
    • Stevens 18, Saint Joseph’s (Maine) 6
    • Saint John Fisher 14, WestConn7
    • Williams 18, Grove City 3
    • Scranton 15, Saint Mary’s (Maryland) 7
    • Claremont-M-S 20, Whitman 10
• Second spherical: ​​​​​​​

DIII girls’s lacrosse championship historical past

The College of New Jersey holds probably the most DIII girls’s lacrosse titles all-time with 13 whereas Middleburry, the four-time defending nationwide champions, boasts the second most with 11. Check out all of the DIII girls’s lacrosse champions since 1985 down under. 

Year	Champion	Coach	Score	Runner-Up	Site
2025	Middlebury	Kate Livesay	10-9	Tufts	Salem, Va.
2024	Middlebury	Kate Livesay	16-5	Salisbury	Salem, Va.
2023	Middlebury	Kate Livesay	17-9	Gettysburg	Salem, Va.
2022	Middlebury	Kate Livesay	13-5	Tufts	Salem, Va.
2021	Salisbury	Jim Nestor	14-13	Tufts	Salem, Va.
2020	Canceled attributable to COVID-19	—	—	—	—
2019	Middlebury	Kate Livesay	14-9	Salisbury	Ashland, Va.
2018	Gettysburg	Carol Cantele	11-9	Middlebury	Salem, Va.
2017	Gettysburg	Carol Cantele	6-5	TCNJ	Salem, Va.
2016	Middlebury	Kate Livesay	9-5	Trinity (Conn.)	Philadelphia, Pa.
2015	SUNY Cortland	Kelly Lickert-Orr	17-6	Trinity (Conn.)	Philadelphia, Pa.
2014	Salisbury	Jim Nestor	9-6	Trinity (Conn.)	Gettysburg, Pa.
2013	Salisbury	Jim Nestor	12-5	Trinity (Conn.)	Owings Mills, Md.
2012	Trinity (Conn.)	Kate Livesay	8-7	Salisbury	Montclair State
2011	Gettysburg	Carol Cantele	16-5	Bowdoin	Adelphi
2010	Salisbury	Jim Neston	7-6	Hamilton	Gettysburg, Pa.
2009	Franklin & Marshall	Lauren Paul	11-10 (OT)	Salisbury	Salem, Va.
2008	Hamilton	Patty Kloidt	13-6	Franklin & Marshall	Salem, Va.
2007	Franklin & Marshall	Anne Phillips	11-8	Salisbury	William Smith
2006	TCNJ	Sharon Pfluger	10-4	Gettysburg	Stevens Institute
2005	TCNJ	Sharon Pfluger	9-7	Salisbury	TCNJ
2004	Middlebury	Missy Foote	13-11 (OT)	TCNJ	St. John Fisher
2003	Amherst	Christine Paradis	11-9	Middlebury	St. John Fisher
2002	Middlebury	Missy Foote	12-6	TCNJ	Rowan
2001	Middlebury	Missy Foote	11-10 (2OT)	Amherst	Johns Hopkins
2000	TCNJ	Sharon Goldbrenner-Pfluger	14-8	Williams	TCNJ
1999	Middlebury	Missy Foote	10-9	Amherst	Johns Hopkins
1998	TCNJ	Jennifer Hart	12-11 (OT)	Williams	UMBC
1997	Middlebury	Missy Foote	14-9	TCNJ	Lehigh
1996	TCNJ	Sharon Goldbrenner-Pfluger	15-8	Middlebury	Lehigh
1995	TCNJ	Sharon Goldbrenner-Pfluger	14-13	William Smith	TCNJ
1994	TCNJ	Sharon Goldbrenner-Pfluger	29-11	William Smith	Maryland
1993	TCNJ	Sharon Goldbrenner	10-9	William Smith	Maryland
1992	TCNJ	Sharon Goldbrenner	5-3	William Smith	Lehigh
1991	TCNJ	Sharon Goldbrenner	7-6	Ursinus	TCNJ
1990	Ursinus	Kim Lambdin	7-6	St. Lawrence	Princeton
1989	Ursinus	Betsy Meng Ramsey	8-6	TCNJ	West Chester
1988	TCNJ	Sharon Goldbrenner	14-11	William Smith	Haverford
1987	TCNJ	Sharon Goldbrener	8-7 (OT)	Ursinus	Maryland
1986	Ursinus	Betsy Meng Ramsey	12-10	TCNJ	Maryland
1985	TCNJ	Melissa Magee	7-4	Ursinus	Penn