2015 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship

2015 NCAA Division I Women's
Lacrosse Championship

Dates

May 8–24, 2015

Teams

Finals site

PPL Park
Chester, PA

Champions

Maryland (12th title)

Runner-up

North Carolina (3rd title game)

MOP

Taylor Cummings, Maryland

NCAA Division I Women's Championships
«2014	2016»

The 2015 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship was the 34th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of Division I NCAA women's college lacrosse.^[1] For the first time, the semifinal and championship rounds were played at PPL Park (the home of the Philadelphia Union of the MLS) in Chester, Pennsylvania from May 22–24, 2015.^[2]

Maryland defeated North Carolina in the final, 9–8, to win their twelfth national title.

Qualification

All NCAA Division I women's lacrosse programs were eligible for this championship, and a total of 26 teams were invited to participate. 13 teams qualified automatically by winning their conference tournaments while the remaining 13 teams qualified at-large based on their regular season records.^[3]

Automatic Qualifiers: Stony Brook (America East), Massachusetts (Atlantic 10), Syracuse (ACC), Jacksonville (Atlantic Sun), Florida (Big East), Winthrop (Big South), Penn State (Big Ten), James Madison (CAA), Princeton (Ivy), Fairfield (MAAC), Stanford (MPSF), Bryant (NEC), and Loyola Maryland (Patriot)
At-large Qualifiers: Albany, Boston College, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Louisville, Maryland, North Carolina, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Pennsylvania, USC, and Virginia

Bracket

First Round May 8 Regional Campus Sites			Second Round May 10 Regional Campus Sites			Quarterfinals May 16–17 Campus Sites			Semifinals May 22 PPL Park			Final May 24 PPL Park


			1	Maryland	19

				Massachusetts	8
	Massachusetts	13

	Jacksonville	8
						1	Maryland	17

						8	Northwestern	5
	Notre Dame	13

	Ohio State	11
				Notre Dame	11

			8	Northwestern	16
8	Northwestern	10

	Louisville	7
									1	Maryland	10

									4	Syracuse	8



			5	Boston College	12

				Loyola (MD)	19
	Loyola (MD)	21

	Bryant	3
							Loyola (MD)	7

						4	Syracuse	10
	Penn	11

	Albany (NY)	10
				Penn	10

			4	Syracuse	13



												1	Maryland	9

												2	North Carolina	8


			3	Duke	17

				USC	9
	James Madison	10

	USC	13
						3	Duke	7

							Princeton	3
	Princeton	18

	Fairfield	8
				Princeton	8

			6	Stony Brook	4



									3	Duke	7

									2	North Carolina	16
7	Virginia	18

	Winthrop	6
			7	Virginia	11

				Penn State	13
	Penn State	14

	Johns Hopkins	11
							Penn State	8

						2	North Carolina	11



				Florida	6

			2	North Carolina	11
	Stanford	10

	Florida	15

References

↑ "Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship Results" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
↑ "2015 Women's Lacrosse Championship Bracket". NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
↑ http://www.ncaa.com/news/lacrosse-women/article/2015-05-03/ncaa-division-i-womens-lacrosse-championship-selections

NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship

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2014–15 NCAA Division I championships

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2015 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship

Qualification

Bracket

See also

References