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The NCAA Division I field hockey tournament is an American intercollegiate field hockey tournament conducted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and determines the Division I national champion. The tournament has been held annually since 1981. [1]
The 2024 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship was the 44th annual tournament organized by the NCAA, to determine the national champion of Division I women's college field hockey in the United States.
The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics and to administer national championships.During its existence, the AIAW and its predecessor, the Division for Girls' and Women's Sports (DGWS), recognized via these championships the teams and individuals who excelled at the highest level of women's collegiate competition.
A field hockey-specific AstroTurf was installed in 2005. [10] After the Syracuse Orange field hockey won the 2015 national championship, the field was renovated in 2016 by GreenFields USA. The renovation made it a faster surface, similar to the field that was installed at the 2014 Hockey World Cup at the Kyocera Stadion in The Hague , Netherlands .
Four college teams won the championship (final game results): [14] 1916 Utah def. Illinois Athletic Club, 28–27; 1920 New York University def. Rutgers, 49–24; 1924 Butler (Indiana) def. Kansas City Athletic Club, 30–26; 1925 Washburn College (Kansas) def. Hillyard Shine Alls, 42–30
The MAC officially sponsored men's and women's ice hockey for many year but it wasn't until the addition of Neumann and Wilkes as affiliate members that the conference received an automatic qualifier for the NCAA Tournament. As a result the first MAC ice hockey tournaments will take place in 2025. [9]
The University of Michigan and Michigan State set a world record for attendance on December 11, 2010, at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.. Playing hockey games outdoors—in soccer, football and baseball stadiums—is an increasingly popular trend for junior, college, professional and international competitions in the 21st century.
Ryleigh Anne Heck (born March 30, 2004) is an American college field hockey player for the North Carolina Tar Heels.She has won two NCAA championships with the Tar Heels, in 2022 and 2023, and was named the NFHCA national player of the year in 2023.