NCAA bowling championship

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NCAA bowling championship
NCAA Bowling Championship Logo.jpg
Sport College Bowling
Founded2004
No. of teams98 (regular season, 2024–25)
19 (championship, 2025)
Most recent
champion
Jacksonville State (2)
Most titles Nebraska (6)
Broadcaster ESPNU
Official website NCAA.com

The NCAA Bowling Championship is a sanctioned women's championship in college athletics. Unlike many NCAA sports, only one National Collegiate championship is held each season with teams from Division I, Division II, and Division III competing together. Nineteen teams, eleven of them automatic qualifiers and the other eight being at-large selections, are chosen by the NCAA Bowling Committee to compete in the championship. The championship was first held in April 2004.

Contents

The most successful team is Nebraska with 6 titles. Jacksonville State is the reigning champion, defeating Wichita State 4 games to 1 in the 2026 championship held at Yorktown Lanes in Parma Heights, OH.

Nebraska is the only program to qualify for all 22 NCAA Bowling Championships since the NCAA started sponsoring bowling in the 2003–04 season. [1]

In July 2025, the Division II Management Council recommended that the division's executive board sponsor legislation that would establish a separate D-II bowling championship. This legislation was considered by the D-II membership at the 2026 NCAA convention. [2] The Division II Championships Committee had started a feasibility study for a D-II bowling championship after the 2023–24 school year, at which time 38 D-II members sponsored the sport. Under current Division II rules, 35 members must sponsor a sport before a separate D-II championship can be established. The final legislation was approved at the 2026 NCAA convention, with the first D-II bowling championship taking place in April 2028. [3] Current NCAA rules require that once a division-specific championship is approved for a sport that uses the National Collegiate format, two National Collegiate championships must be held before the division championship can start. [4]

Format

The collegiate bowling season runs from late October through the end of March, and the National Collegiate Women's Bowling Championship is held in April.

Through 2017

The format for the championships from 2004 to 2017 began with qualifying rounds in which each team bowled one five-person regular team game against each of the other seven teams participating in the championship.

Teams would then be seeded for bracket play based on their qualifying rounds win–loss record and then competed in best-of-seven-games Baker matches in a double elimination tournament. In the Baker format, each of the five team members, in order, bowls one frame until a complete (10-frame) game is bowled. A Baker match tied 3½ games to 3½ games after seven games is decided by a tiebreaker, using the Modified Baker format, which takes the scoring from only frames 6 thru 10. [5]

2018 and 2019

In previous years, all eight participants received at-large bids. In 2018 the NCAA Women's Bowling Committee selected a field of ten participants. Six teams are automatic qualifiers from the conferences that have been granted an automatic bid, and the other four receive at-large bids. At that time, the six conferences that fulfilled the criteria to be granted an automatic qualifier were the Division I Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, Northeast Conference, Southland Bowling League, and Southwestern Athletic Conference, plus the Division II Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association and East Coast Conference. The ten participants were ranked and seeded based on the criteria used by the selection committee. The top six seeds automatically entered the championship bracket. The four lowest-seeded teams played in on-campus opening round matches to determine the two participants advancing to the eight-team championship bracket. To minimize travel costs, the matchups were determined by geographical proximity rather than seedings. [6]

In 2019, the championship field expanded from 10 to 12 teams, coinciding with two new conferences fulfilling the criteria for automatic qualification—the Division II Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) and the Division III Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference. Accordingly, eight conference champions received automatic bids, and the NCAA Women's Bowling Committee selected four at-large teams to fill out the 12-team field. The top four teams were seeded into the Championship bracket, while the eight remaining teams competed in four play-in matches. The winners of these matches were seeded into the eight-team championship bracket. [7]

Qualifying rounds were eliminated in favor of a seeded double-elimination bracket. Each match within the bracket consisted of best-of-three matches using specified formats (five-person regular team matches, Baker total pinfall, and Baker match play).

The championship finals were a best-of-seven match using Baker match play rules. [8] The tiebreaker rule used through 2017 will still apply to Baker match play in the new format.

From 2020

The championship was scheduled to expand to 16 teams in 2020. The number of automatic bids was reduced by one after the MIAA bowling league disbanded at the end of the 2018–19 season. Although five schools that had participated in the final season of MIAA bowling became part of the new bowling league of the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC), those schools were not in the same bowling league for a sufficient time to allow the GLVC to inherit the MIAA's automatic bid. [9]

The 2020 tournament was intended to be the first to feature regional play. The field was to be split into four regions, each with four teams competing at predetermined sites; each of the top four seeds as chosen by the NCAA selection committee would be placed in a separate regional. Each regional was to be played as a double-elimination tournament, with the format identical to that introduced for the championship event in 2019. All regional matches, except for what the NCAA calls "if necessary regional finals", are best-of-three matches bowled in the following order: five-person team, Baker total pinfall, Baker best-of-seven match play. Any "if necessary regional final" will be Baker best-of-seven. [9] Regional winners will advance to the championship event, which will also be double-elimination. All matches will be bowled under the standard format for regionals (best-of-three matches using specified formats in a specific order) except the championship final, which will be Baker best-of-seven. [9]

On March 12, 2020, the NCAA announced that the 2020 tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [10]

The 2021 tournament featured six automatic berths (CIAA had its championship cancelled due to COVID-19) and ten at-large selections. This was the first tournament to feature regional play. Both regional and championship rounds were all played at one site. [11] The 2022 tournament saw the number of automatic bids increase by two, to eight, with the GLVC champion receiving an automatic bid for its champion and the CIAA champion returning after a one-year absence. There were eight at-large selections. For the first time, regional competition took place at four predetermined regional sites - Erie, PA, Rochester, NY, Lansing, MI, and Arlington, TX, with the regional winners advancing to the championship round. [12] The 2023 tournament saw the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin gain an automatic bid, bringing the total number of automatic bids to nine. Eight at-large selections and four predetermined regional sites carried over from the 2022 tournament. [13] The 2024 tournament saw the bowling alliance between Conference Carolinas and the Great Midwest Athletic Conference gain an automatic bid, bringing the total number of automatic bids to ten. Eight at-large selections and four predetermined regional sites carried over from the 2023 tournament. [14] The 2025 tournament saw the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference gain an automatic bid, bringing the total number of automatic bids to eleven. Eight at-large selections and four predetermined regional sites carried over from the 2024 tournament. [15] The 2026 tournament kept the same number of automatic bids, at-large selections, and four predetermined regional sites. [16]

From 2028

After the 2026–27 season, Division II members will no longer participate in the National Collegiate championship, instead holding their own championship. The format for the National Collegiate championship going forward has yet to be determined. Neither Division I nor Division III has sufficient members to hold its own championship.

Champions

All schools are listed with their current athletic brand names, which do not always match those used by a school in the relevant season.

NCAA National Collegiate Bowling Championship
YearSiteChampionship
WinnerScoreRunner-upIndividual GamesMost Valuable BowlerRef
2004
Details
Emerald Bowl
Houston, Texas
Nebraska 4–2 Central Missouri 170–131, 160–208, 185–190, 239–150, 219–197, 215–173 [Note 1] Shannon Pluhowsky, Nebraska [17]
2005
Details
Wekiva Lanes
Orlando, Florida
Nebraska (2)4–2Central Missouri220–210, 247–266, 148–192, 205–190, 190–172, 235–184 [Note 2] Amanda Burgoyne, Nebraska [18] [19]
2006
Details
Emerald Bowl
Houston, Texas
Fairleigh Dickinson 4–1 Alabama A&M 209–165, 148–184, 172–165, 200–179, 196–165 [Note 3] Lisa Friscioni, Fairleigh Dickinson [20]
2007
Details
Wekiva Lanes
Apopka, Florida
Vanderbilt 4–3 Maryland Eastern Shore 167–164, 242–166, 154–202, 148–170, 224–180, 178–235, 198–150 [Note 4] Josie Earnest, Vanderbilt [21] [22]
2008
Details
Thunder Alley
Omaha, Nebraska
Maryland Eastern Shore4–2 Arkansas State 179–223, 200–181, 180–182, 217–164, 175–152, 174–170Jessica Worsley, Maryland Eastern Shore [23] [24]
2009
Details
Super Bowl Lanes
Canton, Michigan
Nebraska (3)4–1Central Missouri200–185, 149–198, 201–168, 201–177, 190–135Cassandra Leuthold, Nebraska [25]
2010
Details
Brunswick Zone Carolier Lanes
North Brunswick, New Jersey
Fairleigh Dickinson (2)4–3Nebraska209–167, 202–222, 203–213, 229–192, 201–222, 230–190, 208–174 Danielle McEwan, Fairleigh Dickinson [26]
2011
Details
Skore Lanes
Taylor, Michigan
Maryland Eastern Shore (2)4–2Vanderbilt215–197, 164–193, 201–248, 234–204, 235–166, 192–181Kristina Frahm, Maryland Eastern Shore [27] [28]
2012
Details
Freeway Lanes
Wickliffe, Ohio
Maryland Eastern Shore (3)4–2Fairleigh Dickinson222–204, 236–215, 167–249, 208–168, 170–223, 203–176T'nia Falbo, Maryland Eastern Shore [29]
2013
Details
Super Bowl Lanes
Canton, Michigan
Nebraska (4)4½–2½Vanderbilt211–199, 186–197, 156–169, 190–190, 196–189, 202–182, 246–200Liz Kuhlkin, Nebraska [30]
2014
Game of Wickliffe
Wickliffe, Ohio
Sam Houston 4–2Nebraska181–166, 182–187, 193–190, 189–197, 205–191, 195–165Kimi Davidson,
Sam Houston
[31] [32]
2015
Tropicana Lanes
Richmond Heights, Missouri
Nebraska (5)4–2 Stephen F. Austin 237–232, 178–253, 201–171, 179–188, 205–201, 195–154Julia Bond, Nebraska [33]
2016Brunswick Zone Carolier Lanes
North Brunswick, New Jersey
Stephen F. Austin4–3Nebraska193–205, 238–198, 265–242, 164–227, 196–187, 160–237, 247–192Kiara Grant, Stephen F. Austin [34]
2017
Raising Cane's River Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
McKendree 4–0Nebraska182–169, 244–192, 224–212, 240–223Breanna Clemmer, McKendree [35]
2018
Details
Tropicana Lanes
Richmond Heights, Missouri
Vanderbilt (2)4–3McKendree224–204, 174–233, 182–193, 233–204, 203–255, 208–205, 220–191Emily Rigney & Katie Stark, Vanderbilt [36]
2019
Details
RollHouse Wickliffe
Wickliffe, Ohio
Stephen F. Austin (2)4–1Vanderbilt167–183, 222–166, 203–175, 224–190, 213–202Paige Beeney, Stephen F. Austin [37]
2020
Thunderbowl Lanes
Allen Park, Michigan
Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic [10]
2021
Details
AMF Pro Lanes
North Kansas City, Missouri
Nebraska (6)4–1Arkansas State217–224, 235–194, 201–190, 179–162, 198–170Crystal Elliott, Nebraska [38]
2022
Details
Wayne Webb's Columbus Bowl
Columbus, Ohio
McKendree (2)4–0Stephen F. Austin201–188, 200–188, 186–182, 215–189Hope Gramly, McKendree [39]
2023
Details
South Point Hotel
Enterprise, Nevada
Vanderbilt (3)4–3Arkansas State156–191, 171–189, 215–198, 159–196, 205–156, 193–187, 193–160Jennifer Loredo, Vanderbilt [40]
2024
Thunderbowl Lanes
Allen Park, Michigan
Jacksonville State 4–3Arkansas State239–194, 204–211, 244–207, 183–221, 205–255, 237–190, 255–192Rebecca Hagerman, Jacksonville State [41]
2025
Suncoast Bowling Center
Las Vegas, Nevada
Youngstown State 4–3Jacksonville State204–199, 248–210, 206–258, 244–226, 200–223, 214–232, 228–203Jade Cote, Youngstown State [42]
2026
Yorktown Lanes
Parma Heights, Ohio
Jacksonville State (2)4–1 Wichita State 208–216, 246–213, 240–196, 185–169, 191–184
2027
AMF Mt. Lebanon Lanes
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [43]
2028
Royal Scot Golf & Bowl
Lansing, Michigan [44]

Team titles

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Fairleigh Dickinson
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Jacksonville State
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Maryland Eastern Shore
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McKendree
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Nebraska
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Sam Houston
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Stephen F. Austin
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Vanderbilt
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Youngstown State
Schools that have won the NCAA Championship
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Team#Years
Nebraska 62004, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2021
Maryland Eastern Shore 32008, 2011, 2012
Vanderbilt 2007, 2018, 2023
Fairleigh Dickinson 22006, 2010
Jacksonville State 2024, 2026
McKendree 2017, 2022
Stephen F. Austin 2016, 2019
Sam Houston 12014
Youngstown State 2025

Result by school and year

51 teams have appeared in the NCAA Tournament in at least one year starting with 2004. The results for all years are shown in this table below. [45] Conference affiliations in the table reflect those in place for the 2025–26 school year. The code in each cell represents the furthest the team made it in the respective tournament:

SchoolConference#84RUCH 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 23 24 25 26

Nebraska CUSA 222218106CHCH33ᴛ7ᴛCHRU3ᴛ3ᴛCHRUCHRURU3ᴛ3ᴛCHR23R23R2
Vanderbilt CUSA 202011635ᴛCH3ᴛ5ᴛ5ᴛRU3ᴛRU5ᴛ7ᴛ7ᴛ3ᴛCHRUR23CHR2R23
Maryland Eastern Shore MEAC 14137437ᴛ7ᴛ7ᴛRUCH7ᴛ5ᴛCHCH3ᴛ3ᴛ5ᴛ3ᴛR3
Stephen F. Austin defunct77442RUCH7ᴛCHRUR2R2
Fairleigh Dickinson NEC 151393243CH3ᴛ3ᴛCH3ᴛRU5ᴛ7ᴛ5ᴛ7ᴛR34R3
McKendree GLVC 776323ᴛCHRU5ᴛ3CH4
Jacksonville State CUSA 33332CHRUCH
Sam Houston CUSA 14115117ᴛ7ᴛCH3ᴛ5ᴛ3ᴛ3ᴛ7ᴛR2R4R24R3R3
Youngstown State CUSA 643114R3R23CHR3
Arkansas State CUSA 181774-RU7ᴛ3ᴛ5ᴛ5ᴛ3ᴛ5ᴛ5ᴛ5ᴛ5ᴛ5ᴛ7ᴛRUR2RURUR34
Central Missouri GLVC 131333-RURU5ᴛ5ᴛ5ᴛRU7ᴛ7ᴛ7ᴛ5ᴛ7ᴛ7ᴛ7ᴛ
Wichita State CUSA 2221-4RU
Alabama A&M SWAC 2111-RU
New Jersey City AMCC 774--35ᴛ47ᴛ3ᴛ5ᴛ3ᴛ
Wisconsin–Whitewater Independent 332--7ᴛ3ᴛ3ᴛ
North Carolina A&T MEAC 861--3ᴛ5ᴛR2R3R2R3R2R2
Delaware State MEAC 321--3ᴛ7ᴛR3
Bethune–Cookman defunct221--47ᴛ
Sacred Heart CUSA 97---5ᴛ5ᴛ5ᴛ7ᴛ7ᴛ5ᴛR2R4R3
Louisiana Tech CUSA 63---R4R2R3R2R3R2
Minnesota State defunct22---7ᴛ5ᴛ
Fayetteville State CIAA 51---7ᴛ
Maryville (MO) GLVC 42---R3R3R2R2
Duquesne NEC 41---R3R3R2R3
Kutztown ECC 21---5ᴛR4
Mount St. Mary's Independent 21---R4R2
Southern SWAC 11---5ᴛ
Winston-Salem State defunct11---7ᴛ
Valparaiso CUSA 11---5ᴛ
Lincoln Memorial defunct11---7ᴛ
Saint Francis (PA) defunct11---7ᴛ
Medaille defunct4----PR3R3R4
Prairie View A&M SWAC 4----PR4R4
Belmont Abbey Carolinas 3----R4R4R4
Bowie State CIAA 3----PPR4
Alabama State SWAC 2----R4
Marian (WI) CCIW 2----R4R4
Mercyhurst ECC 2----R4R4
Saint Vincent AMCC 2----
Texas Southern SWAC 1----P
Caldwell CACC 1----P
Roberts Wesleyan ECC 1----R4
Wilmington (DE) CACC 1----R3
Carthage CCIW 1----R4
Merrimack NEC 1----R3
William Smith AMCC 1----R4
Felician CACC 1----R4
Newman GLVC 1----R3
Bryant ECC 1----R4
Carroll CCIW 1----R4
Dominican (NY) CACC 1----R4

NCAA programs

A total of 98 teams [a] are competing in the 2024–25 season:

  1. From the linked website, select "Women's Bowling" from the "Sport" menu, and the desired division from the "Division" menu.

Conferences

See also

Notes

  1. Nebraska had to win two best-of-seven matchups against Central Missouri (who advanced to the finals after going undefeated in Friday's double elimination format) to win the first NCAA bowling title. Nebraska won the first match 4–2 (183–176, 168–200, 195–170, 212–212 (60–40), 168–203, 246–195) to force the winner-take-all match.
  2. Under the same double elimination format used in 2004, Nebraska went undefeated, winning three matches on Friday, meaning they only had to win once (out of a possible two best-of-seven matches) against Central Missouri to win the NCAA Bowling Championship. Nebraska needed only one best-of-seven match-up to win their second straight NCAA Bowling title.
  3. Fairleigh Dickinson (only team undefeated, 3-0 after Friday's double elimination matches) needed only one best-of-seven match (out of a possible two matches) to defeat Alabama A&M.
  4. The double elimination format was tweaked in 2007 and was last used in the 2019 championships. Under the previous double elimination format used from 2004–2006, the finalist with one loss had to defeat the undefeated finalist twice in best-of-seven matches to win the bowling championship. Beginning in 2007, two teams that win two best-of-seven matches advance to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the two undefeated teams would only need to win once out a possible two matches to advance to the final. In the 2007 championships, Vanderbilt and Maryland Eastern Shore won two matches to advance to the semifinals. Both teams only needed one match to advance to the best-of-seven finals match.
  5. The GLVC added women's bowling for 2019–20, effectively absorbing the former bowling league of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association. Of the six schools that competed in MIAA bowling in 2018–19, five joined GLVC bowling. Lincoln (MO) dropped bowling after the 2019–20 season, but was immediately replaced by the new bowling team of full GLVC member Quincy. The GLVC has received an automatic bid to the Championship since 2021–22.

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