NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship
The NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship refers to one of three
- NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship
- NCAA Division II Women's Volleyball Championship
- NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Championship
From 1970 through 1980, before the NCAA governed women's collegiate athletics, the
Volleyball was one of twelve women's sports added to the NCAA championship program for the 1981-82 school year, as the NCAA engaged in battle with the
In the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship, separate tournaments are conducted for Division I, Division II, and Division III institutions. This differs from NCAA men's volleyball because there are far more NCAA member schools offering women's volleyball. Until the 2011–12 school year (2012 men's season—NCAA women's volleyball is a fall sport, while men's volleyball is a spring sport), there was no official divisional structure in men's collegiate volleyball; all men's teams, regardless of their divisional affiliation, were eligible to compete for the NCAA championship. Even today, the divisional structure in men's volleyball is truncated, with a National Collegiate Championship (previously the only men's tournament) for schools in Divisions I and II, plus the newly created Division III Championship.
In the sport of beach volleyball, the NCAA conducts a women-only, all-divisions championship. The inaugural championship was held in spring 2016.
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See also
- AIAW Intercollegiate Women's Volleyball Champions
- NCAA men's volleyball tournament (National Collegiate division)
- NCAA Division III men's volleyball tournament
- NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship (women only, beginning in 2016)
- American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA)