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This is a list of the schools in Division II of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States and Canada that have women's soccer as a varsity sport. In the 2024 season, there are a total of 258 women's Division II soccer programs. Conference affiliations are current for the upcoming 2025 season.
The NCAA Division II women's soccer tournament is an annual event organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the national champions of women's collegiate soccer among its Division II members in the United States and Canada. It has been held every year since 1988, except for 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. [1]
Apart from this, Division II members are allowed to compete for Division I championships in sports in which a Division II national championship is not contested. In some sports, the NCAA only sponsors championships open to all member schools regardless of division, with examples including beach volleyball, fencing, rifle, and water polo.
The top six teams in the poll mirror the final 2023 rankings with No. 4 Pittsburgh, No. 5 Stanford and No. 6 Louisville rounding out the top six. Texas received 46 of 61 first-place votes.
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.
Watkins Memorial is the No. 4 seed in Division II girls soccer. The Warriors host No. 7 Canal Winchester on Oct. 17 with the winner possibly playing No. 3 Big Walnut in a district final a week later.
In 1966 (59 years ago) (), the USCAA was founded as the National Little College Athletic Association (NLCAA), primarily to sponsor a national basketball tournament for small colleges and junior colleges.
Penn State University is the women's college team with the most titles (with 16 titles overall including 14 during the period when NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program has been in effect). As of the 2016–17 school year, there were seven D-I, three D-II, and four D-III schools participating in varsity competition. [ 5 ]