College Update: College Conference Championships 2025 Roundup

The first bids to Nationals were earned this weekend!

April 14, 2025 by Alex Rubin in Preview, Recap

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D-I Women’s

Conference Results

Atlantic Coast Region:

• #10 North Carolina Pleiades won the Carolina Conference Championship. South Carolina, Clemson, NC State, Appalachian State, Duke, and Charleston also advanced.
• Georgetown Huckin Foyas won the Colonial Conference Championship. American, Maryland, and George Washington also advanced.
• William & Mary Cypress rode an upset of #22 Virginia Hydra to a Virginia Conference championship. Liberty, Virginia, and James Madison also advanced.

Great Lakes Region:

• #21 Notre Dame Echo beat #7 Michigan Flywheel 8-7 to win the Eastern Great Lakes Conference. Purdue, Michigan State, Grand Valley, Michigan B, Indiana, and Notre Dame B all advanced to Regionals.
• Illinois Menace upset Chicago Supernova 12-6 to win the Illinois Conference Championship. Northwestern and Loyola-Chicago also advanced to Regionals.

Metro East Region:

• Connecticut Women’s Ultimate won the Eastern Metro East Conference with a 8-5 win over NYU Purple Reign in the final. Both of them advanced to Regionals alongside Columbia, Yale, Rutgers, SUNY-Stony Brook, and Columbia B.
• The Cornell Wild Roses easily won the Western NY Conference, not allowing more than four goals in a single game. SUNY-Buffalo, SUNY-Binghamton, Syracuse, and RIT all advanced to Regionals.

New England Region:

• #6 Vermont Ruckus won the Greater New England Conference Championship, only giving up two total goals in the three games they played. Brown, Rhode Island, UMass, New Hampshire, and Maine all advanced to Regionals.
• #1 Tufts EWO took home the Metro Boston Conference Championship. Northeastern, MIT, Harvard, Boston College, and Boston University also advanced to Regionals.

North Central Region:

• Wisconsin won the Lake Superior Conference Championship. UW-Eau Claire, Marquette, UW-Lacrosse, UW-Milwaukee, and UW-Stevens Point all advanced to Regionals.
• #2 Carleton Syzygy took down #24 Minnesota Matrix to win the Western North Central Conference Championship. Iowa State, Iowa, Minnesota B, and Minnesota-Duluth all advanced to Regionals.

Northwest Region:

• #4 UBC Thunderbirds emerged victorious from a competitive field at the Cascadia Conference Championships. #9 Washington Element, #19 Western Washington Chaos, #15 Victoria Vikes, #5 Oregon Fugue, Oregon State, and UBC B all advanced to Regionals. Oregon dropped to fifth place in the conference following losses to Western Washington and Washington.

Ohio Valley Region:

• All of the teams from the Ohio Conference advanced. #23 Ohio State Fever won the conference with an undefeated weekend. Ohio, Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve, and Miami (Ohio) all qualified for Regionals.
• Pennsylvania Venus beat Pittsburgh Danger to win the Pennsylvania Conference Championship. All of the other teams present also advanced: Carnegie Mellon, Penn State, West Chester, Temple, and Pennsylvania B.

Southeast Region:

• The Central Florida Sirens beat Florida Fuel 13-10 to win the Florida Conference Championship. Those two teams advanced alongside Florida State, Miami, Florida Tech, and Florida B.
• Jacksonville State Fuego went undefeated to win the Gulf Coast Conference Championship. LSU and Vanderbilt also qualified for Regionals.
• Georgia Athena won the Southern Appalachian Conference Championship. Also advancing are: Georgia Tech, Tennessee, Emory, Georgia Southern, UT-Chattanooga, and Georgia B.

South Central Region:

• Missouri Terror Mizzou beat Washington University Iron Horse 15-6 to win the Ozarks Conference Championship. Arkansas, Kansas, Saint Louis, and WashU B also advanced to Regionals.
• #3 Colorado Quandary advanced from the Rocky Mountain Conference Championships alongside state-mates Colorado State, Denver, and Colorado B.
• UT-Dallas Whiplash upset #25 Texas Melee 10-5 to win the Texas Conference Championship. Both teams bageled Texas B, who also advanced to Regionals.

Southwest Region:

• Grand Canyon FalLopes won the Desert Conference Championship. Arizona State and Arizona also advanced to Regionals.
• #11 Stanford Superfly upset #13 UC Santa Cruz Sol 15-11 to win the NorCal Conference Championship. Cal, #16 UC Davis Rogue, and Santa Clara advanced to Regionals.
• #8 Cal Poly SLO SLO Motion avenged a pool play loss and eked out a tight win over #18 UC Santa Barbara Burning Skirts to win the SoCal conference. Also advancing to Regionals is: #12 UC San Diego, USC, UC Irvine, #20 UCLA, and San Diego State.

Looking Ahead

The Big Sky conference is the last tournament for the Conference round and is set to be played this coming weekend. Regional tournaments begin the weekend after.

D-I Men’s

Conference Results

Atlantic Coast Region:

• #2 North Carolina Darkside rolled through the Carolina Conference Championship. Also advancing to Regionals are: South Carolina, #25 UNC Wilmington Seamen, UNC Charlotte, Duke, NC State, Clemson, East Carolina, and Appalachian State.
• Georgetown Justice upset Maryland Space Bastards to give the school a sweep of the Colonial Conference in both divisions. Those were the only teams to advance out of this conference.
• Virginia Night Train are the champions of the Virginia Conference. Virginia Tech, William & Mary, James Madison, and Liberty all advanced to Regionals.

Great Lakes Region:

• The Indiana HoosierMama?s finished atop the East Plains Conference round robin to claim the tournament title. Notre Dame, Purdue, and Kentucky also advanced to Regionals.
• Chicago Fission beat Illinois Rise to win the Illinois Conference Championship. Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, Northwestern, Illinois State, and Loyola-Chicago also advanced to Regionals.
• Michigan MagnUM finished undefeated in Saturday’s round robin to win the Michigan Conference Championship. The remaining teams played an elimination bracket on Sunday that saw Michigan State, Grand Valley, and Eastern Michigan advance to Regionals.

Metro East Region:

• The Connecticut Huskies won the Hudson Valley Conference Championship with an undefeated Saturday in pool play. Sunday’s bracket served to advance Yale, SUNY-Albany, and Central Connecticut State to Regionals.
• Rutgers Machine squeaked out a one point win over Columbia to win the Metro NY Conference Championship. Columbia, NYU, Princeton, Rowan, and Hofstra all advanced to Regionals.
• Cornell Buds beat the Ottawa Gee Gees to win the Western NY Conference. RIT, Toronto, and Syracuse all advanced to Regionals. Notably, SUNY-Buffalo – winners of last month’s East Coast Invite – did not finish high enough to qualify for Regionals.

New England Region:

• #3 UMass Zoodisc beat #22 Vermont Chill to win the Greater New England Conference Championship. #11 Brown Brownian Motion and three other teams advanced to Regionals, but unreported scores from Sunday’s games prevent those teams from being identified.
• #16 Northeastern Huskies beat #14 Tufts E-Men 12-9 to win the Metro Boston Conference Championship. Boston University and two other teams advanced to Regionals, but unreported scores from Sunday’s games prevent those teams from being identified.

North Central Region:

• Wisconsin Hodags took down all challengers with room to spare in the bracket to win the Lake Superior Conference Championship. Marquette, Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Wisconsin-Lacrosse all advanced to Regionals.
• #5 Carleton CUT and #24 Minnesota Men’s Ultimate Team advanced out of the three team Northwoods Conference. CUT beat Minnesota 15-5 in their matchup.
• Iowa State ISUC won the West Plains Conference Championship with an undefeated trip through pool play. Also advancing to Regionals are: Iowa, Nebraska, Northern Iowa, and Creighton.

Ohio Valley Region:

• The Cincinnati Bearcats won the Ohio Conference Championships. Ohio State, Case Western Reserve, Dayton, Miami (Ohio), Akron, and Ohio.
• #18 Penn State Spank overcame a shocking pool play loss to Carnegie Mellon and avenged the loss a day later to win the West Penn Conference Championship. Penn State beat Pitt 15-10 in the semifinals, but Pitt survived the game to go and all three aforementioned teams advanced to Regionals.

Southeast Region

• First year D-I team Ave Maria Gyrenes beat Florida Ultimate to win the Florida Conference Championship. Florida State, South Florida, and Central Florida also advanced to Regionals.
• Tulane Tucks won the Gulf Coast Conference Championship, taking down Alabama-Huntsville Nightmares 12-7 in the first place game. UAH also advanced to Regionals alongside Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi State, LSU, and Alabama-Birmingham.
• #13 Georgia Jojah defended their Southern Appalachian Conference championship with a 15-11 win over #19 Georgia Tech Tribe. Emory and Tennessee-Chattanooga also advanced, the latter with a 14-12 win over Tennessee in the game-to-go.

South Central Region

• Tarleton State Texan Ultimate won the North Texas Conference Championship, which also saw North Texas and UT-Dallas advance to Regionals.
• #23 Washington University Contra unsurprisingly won the Ozarks Conference Championship. Missouri, Kansas, Saint Louis, Oklahoma State, and Missouri State also advanced to Regionals.
• #1 Colorado Mamabird won the Rocky Mountain Conference. Colorado State are also sure to advance to Regionals, but the other scores were unreported at publish time.
  • This recap was submitted by an anonymous Rocky Mountain Conference player
    
    With five bids to regionals and five clear favorites, the tangible stakes were low, but pride was on the line with each game. The lower seeds were all determined to punch up against the team seeded right above them. In the end, the tournament went to chalk with Colorado Mamabird taking home the conference championship over Colorado State Hibida in a game that finished 15-8. Hibida capitalized on a shaky start for the Mamabird O-line, generating an early break to put the game back on serve, but would fail to find another break the remainder of the game. Mamabird are playing like a clear top-5 team in the country, but will need to clean up their offense if they want to make noise at the big dance.

    Elsewhere, Colorado-B continued their recent dominance over Denver, although both teams will play in Tulsa in two weeks. For the first time since 2018 and just the second in program history, CSU B is headed to Regionals. In a game against Mesa that was never close, CSU B rattled off eight total breaks while conceding just one in their game-to-go.

    Colorado’s Tobias Brooks and Zeke Thoreson were joined by CSU’s Tim Elliott as the top three players of the weekend. The Mamabird boys play with incredible speed, throws, and tenacious defense while Tim has been a surgical handler for Hibida, finding throwing lanes where few others could.

• #15 Texas TUFF and Texas A&M Dozen advanced from the South Texas Conference. Texas beat A&M on both days to claim the conference crown.

Southwest Region

• Grand Canyon Lopes won the Desert Conference Championship. Arizona State finished in second place to qualify for Regionals.
• #12 UC Santa Cruz Slugs upset #9 Cal Ursa Major to win the NorCal Conference Championship. Stanford, Santa Clara, San Jose State, and UC Davis all advanced to Regionals.
• #6 Cal Poly SLO won the SoCal Conference Championship. UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, UCLA, USC, and San Diego State all placed high enough to qualify for Regionals.

Looking Ahead

The Big Sky, Cascadia, and East Penn conference championships take place this weekend to wrap up the first round of the series. Regional tournaments begin the following weekend.

D-III Women’s

Nationals Qualifiers

• #25 Richmond Redhots beat Davidson 12-2 to take the lone Nationals bid from the Atlantic Coast region.
• #7 Davenport Panthers gave up just nine goals over five games and qualified as the team going to Nationals from the Great Lakes region.
• #5 St Olaf Vortex went undefeated to win the North Central Conference Championship and qualify directly to Nationals, knocking off #1 Carleton Eclipse 14-10 in the final. Carleton also qualified to Nationals by beating #15 Michigan Tech Superior Ma’s in the 2nd Place Game 15-13. #11 Macalester Pursesnatchers had their effort to make Nationals halted in the backdoor quarterfinal round where the Grinnell Grinneleanor Roosevelts came away with an 11-7 upset.
• #4 Whitman Sweets did not give up more than four goal in a single game as they swept their way through the Northwest Conference Championships and qualified to Nationals. Puget Sound Clearcut upset #6 Lewis & Clark Artemis in the semifinals to clinch their spot at Nationals as well. That left Lewis & Clark to battle it out with defending champion #10 Portland UPRoar in the game-to-go. Artemis already won that matchup in pool play (which sent Portland to the less favorable semifinal matchup against Whitman), and also knocked out the defending champions in the game-to-go to qualify for Nationals.
• #13 Rice Torque upset #8 Colorado College Zenith 15-12 to qualify directly to Nationals from the South Central Conference Championship
• #16 Union Jillz steadily beat Berry and Georgia College to claim the lone bid from the Southeast Conference Championships to Nationals.

Conference Results

Metro East Region:

• #2 Wesleyan Vicious Circles did not allow more than three goals in any game as they took home the Eastern Metro East Conference crown. Skidmore, Vassar, Rensselaer Polytech, and Connecticut College all qualified for Regionals.
• #18 Rochester EZ Women similarly rolled through the Western NY Conference Championship, never allowing more than four goals in a game. #20 Ithaca Kweezy, Colgate, Hamilton, and SUNY-Geneseo all advanced to Regionals.

New England Region:

• The results from the Metro Boston Conference Championships are not updated, but all four teams (#22 Wellesley Whiptails, Bentley, Brandeis, and Stonehill) are set to advance to Regionals regardless of their finish. Seeding at Regionals will be impacted by their games.
• Bowdoin Chaos Theory upset #9 Middlebury Pranksters to claim first place in the North New England Conference Championship round robin. Both teams advanced to Regionals alongside Bates, Dartmouth, and Colby.
• #14 Mount Holyoke Daisy Chain went undefeated to win the South New England Conference Championship. #17 Williams Nova, Amherst, Smith, and Clark advanced to Regionals as well.

Ohio Valley Region:

• #12 Kenyon Blu-Ray went undefeated to win the Ohio Conference Championships. Cedarville, Xavier, and Oberlin also advanced to Regionals.
• #3 Haverford/Bryn Mawr Sneetches beat Scranton 12-2 to win the Pennsylvania Conference Championship. Both teams advanced to Regionals with #22 Lehigh Gravity, #23 Swarthmore Warmothers, Grove City, and Messiah.

Looking Ahead

Regional tournaments for the remaining undecided bids are scheduled for April 26th-27th.

D-III Men’s

Nationals Qualifiers

#2 Elon Big Fat Bomb beat #14 Richmond Spidermonkeys 15-10 to win the Atlantic Coast Conference and qualify directly to Nationals for the first time since 2015. Richmond recovered from the loss and beat Davidson DUFF 15-7 in the game to go to qualify for Nationals as well. Davidson upset #19 UNC Asheville Mudpuppies to make it to the game-to-go.

#21 Berry Bucks dispatched Union Jaxx to win the Southeast Conference Championship, and the region’s only bid to Nationals. Though they did not advance out of the tournament, Morehouse notably earned the first recorded win in program history during Saturday’s pool play, and notched two more in Sunday’s consolation. Morehouse is recognized as the first HCBU to field an ultimate team.

Conference Results

Great Lakes Region:

• #1 Davenport Panthers had no trouble knocking off all opponents at the Eastern Great Lakes Conference Championships. Notably, #11 Asbury fell to Hillsdale in the semifinals to knock the ascendant Asbury team to the backdoor bracket and send Hillsdale through to Regionals. Butler and Asbury qualified in the backdoor bracket as well. Two other teams are set to advance, but their scores and placement are not reported as of this publishing.
• Knox and North Park qualified to Regionals from the Illinois Conference Championships.

Metro East Region:

• #4 Wesleyan Nietzsch Factor went undefeated to win the Hudson Valley Conference Championship, beating Skidmore 15-8 in the final. Both teams qualified for Regionals alongside Vassar, Connecticut College, Hartford, and Rensselaer Polytechnic.
• The College of New Jersey Revolution dispatched Manhattan and Stevens Tech to win the Metro NY Conference Championship, and all three teams advanced to Regionals.
• #12 Rochester Piggies won the Western NY Conference Championship, with their most lopsided win a 15-4 drubbing of Ithaca in the final. Ithaca also qualified for Regionals alongside Hamilton, Colgate, and SUNY-Geneseo.

New England Region:

• Brandeis Tron won their two bracket games to win the Metro Boston Conference Championship. Bentley lost to Stonehill in the first place semifinal, but avenged that loss in the game to go to qualify for Regionals.
• #3 Middlebury Pranksters won all of their games to take the North New England Conference Championship. #18 Bowdoin Clown made the final and qualified for Regionals along with Dartmouth, #16 Bates Orange Whip, Colby, and Middlebury B.

North Central Region:

• Michigan Tech DiscoTech beat Wisconsin-Platteville Udderburn to win the Lake Superior Conference Championship. Both teams qualified for Regionals.
• #15 St Olaf Bezerkers upset #8 Carleton CHOP to claim the Northwoods Conference Championship. CHOP beat Macalester for second place, though both qualified for Regionals. St Thomas also qualified for Regionals by knocking off Winona State in the game to go.
• Grinnell and Luther are the only teams in the West Plains Conference and both advanced to Regionals after a one-game event. Grinnell won 12-10.

Ohio Valley Region:

• As has become typical for them, Scranton Electric City made their season debut by winning the East Penn Conference Championship. Haverford beat Swarthmore 13-5 in the game to go to Regionals.
• Kenyon SERF upset #10 Franciscan Fatal to win the Ohio Conference Championship. Both teams advanced to Regionals alongside Cedarville, #20 Oberlin Flying Horsecows, and Xavier.
• The Messiah Falcons won the West Penn Conference Championship and advanced to Regionals. Two more teams will be joining them, but those scores are unreported.

South Central Region:

• #7 Oklahoma Christian Eagles went undefeated on Saturday to win the Ozarks Conference Championship. Through Sunday’s play-in tournament, #17 Missouri S&T Miner Threat, John Brown, and Truman State all qualified for Regionals.
• #13 Colorado College Wasabi beat #23 Colorado Mines Entropy to win the Rocky Mountain Conference Championship. Both teams advanced to Regionals alongside Air Force.
• Rice took the sole bid from the Texas Conference Championship to Regionals.

Looking Ahead

The South New England, Southwest and Northwest conference championships are scheduled for next weekend. Regionals will then begin the weekend after.