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ODAC Country Home to Seven NCAA Championships in Host Announcement

Division III Selects Six Sports to be Hosted by ODAC, League Members

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. --- The ODAC and its member schools have been host to more than 90 Division III championships. That total will eclipse the century mark by June 2028 with the announcement of the next two-year cycle of championship hosts on Wednesday afternoon.

Six Division III sports will hand out trophies in ODAC country in 2026-27 and 2027-28. The NCAA, which last mass awarded championships in 2020 to cover a four-year period from 2022-23 through 2025-26, has made the switch to a two-year process under new President, Charlie Baker.

Returning to the ODAC and the City of Salem will be the Division III Football Championship -- the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl -- in 2026-27. The ODAC and the Greensboro Aquatic Center continue to be the favored venue and hosts by the Division III Men's and Women's Swimming & Diving Championship Committees as the joint venture will continue to showcase in both 2027 and 2028 in Greensboro.

In a scenario not yet entirely complete, the ODAC and Salem will join Roanoke College in hosting the Division III Women's Basketball Championship semifinals in 2028. There are on-going discussions surrounding the quarterfinals also being competed in Salem. What is known is that all three divisions will conduct their national title contests in Indianapolis, Indiana, in conjunction with the Division I Women's Basketball Final Four.

Volleyball -- both men's and women's events -- call Salem home in 2024-25, and the women's championship final eight are slated to return to the Commonwealth in 2027. Randolph-Macon College and the Henrico Sports & Entertainment Authority will welcome Division III's best to the recently completed Henrico Sports & Events Center.

Virginia Wesleyan University and the Virginia Beach Sports Center will be the host and venue for the 2028 Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships. The VBSC was home to the 2024 indoor championships.

The remaining ODAC-involved event features a sport the conference does not sponsor. Guilford College and the Greensboro Aquatic Center will facilitate the 2028 National Collegiate Women's Water Polo Championships. Water polo does not distinguish between the three traditional NCAA divisions, instead competing as one single entity across the country.

For additional information, including the assignment of hosts and venues for all sports across all three NCAA divisions, read the official NCAA release HERE.