Clark
Atlanta gets bid to NCAA Div II Women's Tennis Championship
April 29, 2004
INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division
II Men's and Women's Tennis Committee has selected the teams
and 16 first- and second-round
sites of the 2004 NCAA Division
II Womens Tennis Championships.
The 16 first- and second-round tournaments will be conducted May 7-9, with
the winner of each first- and second-round tournament advancing to the finals
in Altamonte Springs, Florida, with the Central Florida Sports Commission,
the Sunshine State Conference and Rollins College serving as co-hosts, May
12-15. The women's championships are part of the NCAA Division II National
Championships Festival, which will feature six Division II championships.
The championships consist of a 16-team single elimination tournament. Each
of the following eight regions will conduct two first- and second-round tournaments:
East, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, South, Great Lakes, Central, North Central and
West. The selection of teams for the championship is based on prescribed criteria
listed in the NCAA Division II Men's and Women's Tennis Championships Handbook
and approved by the NCAA Division II Championships Committee.
Clark Atlanta (9-3) will meet West Florida (23-5) in Pensacola, FL on May
7 in First Round play.
Eighteen conferences receive automatic qualification into the 2004 women's
championships. Each conference and its automatic qualifier is listed below:
California Collegiate Athletic Association – University of California,
San Diego
Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference – Barton College
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Northwood University
Great Lakes Valley Conference – Northern Kentucky University
Gulf South Conference – Ouachita Baptist University
Heartland Conference – University of the Incarnate Word
Lone Star Conference – Abilene Christian University
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association – Washburn University
of Topeka
New York Collegiate Athletic Conference – Queens College (New York)
Northeast-10 Conference – Bryant College
Pacific West Conference – Brigham Young University, Hawaii
Peach Belt Conference – Armstrong Atlantic State University
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference – Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference – Metropolitan State College of Denver
Sunshine State Conference – Lynn University
South Atlantic Conference – Tusculum College Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Clark Atlanta
University
West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Shepherd College
In the 2003 championships, defending champion Brigham Young-Hawaii, defeated
Barry University, 5-3, for its fourth title in five years.
