| Tournament details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Host country | |||
| City | | ||
| Dates | November 14–22, 2009 | ||
| Venue | Kentner Stadium | ||
| Final positions | |||
| Champions | North Carolina (6th title) | ||
| Runner-up | Maryland (9th title game) | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Matches played | 15 | ||
| Goals scored | 88 (5.87 per match) | ||
| Top scorer(s) | Katie O'Donnell, Maryland (6 goals) | ||
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The 2009 NCAA Division I field hockey tournament was the 29th annual tournament organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the national champion of women's collegiate field hockey among its Division I members in the United States.
North Carolina won their sixth championship, defeating defending champions Maryland in the final, 3–2. [1]
The semifinals and championship were hosted by Wake Forest University at Kentner Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Drexel made their debut in the NCAA Division I field hockey tournament.
| First round November 14 Campus sites | Second round November 15 Campus sites | Semifinals November 20 Winston-Salem, NC | Championship November 22 Winston-Salem, NC | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Maryland | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| American | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Maryland | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Drexel | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Drexel | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Connecticut | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Maryland | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Princeton | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Syracuse | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Boston College | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Syracuse | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Princeton | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Princeton | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Stanford | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Maryland | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | North Carolina | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | North Carolina | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Ohio State | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | North Carolina | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Wake Forest | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wake Forest | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Indiana | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | North Carolina | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Virginia | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Michigan State | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Delaware | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Michigan State | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Virginia | 3* | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Virginia | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Richmond | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||