ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — The 2025 USA Water Polo Division III Collegiate Water Polo National Championship on Saturday-Sunday, May 3-4, at Augustana College’s Anne Greve Lund Natatorium in Rock Island, Ill., will be streamed live on a pay-per-view basis at Overnght.com .
The four-game championship weekend featuring Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Champion/No. 24-ranked/Division III No. 1 Pomona-Pitzer Colleges, SCIAC runner-up/Division III No. 2 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges, Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Division III Champion/Division III No. 7/host Augustana and CWPA Division III runner-up/Division III No. 8 Washington & Jefferson College marks the fourth women’s Division III Collegiate Water Polo National Championship with prior events at Pomona-Pitzer (2022, 2024) in Claremont, Calif., and Augsutana (2023). The championship was slated to begin in 2021 but was eliminated as only a portion of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III institutions elected to field teams due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Augustana – which defeated Washington & Jefferson College by a 10-7 score on April 13 for the program’s third consecutive CWPA Division Championship (2023, 2024, 2025) – will make the program’s fourth appearance in the fourth year of the USAWP Division III Championship with its inaugural appearance in 2022 coming as the CWPA runner-up. Following the cancellation of the 2021 event due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the Vikings qualified in 2022 (at Pomona-Pitzer Colleges, Fourth Place), 2023 (at Augustana, Third Place) and 2024 (at Pomona-Pitzer, Third Place) along with Austin College (2022 – Third Place; 2023 – Fourth Place; 2024 – Fourth Place).
W&J earns the program’s inaugural trip to either the man’s and/or women’s USA Division III Championship to become the sixth institution to earn a berth to the women’s event by joining Augustana (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), Austin College (2022, 2023, 2024), three-time champion Pomona-Pitzer (2022, 2023, 2024), Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges (2023, 2024) and Whittier College (2022).
Pomona-Pitzer and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps earned the way into the championship field by qualifying for the SCIAC Championship game where the Sagehens manged the Athenas by a 12-7 score to claim the conference crown on Saturday, April 26.
In the history of the women’s championship, Pomona-Pitzer (2022 – 1st; 2023 – 1st; 2024 – 1st), Whittier (2022 – 2nd) and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (2023 – 2nd, 2024 – 2nd) have made the title game, while Austin (2022 – 3rd ; 2023- 4th; 2024 – 4th) and Augustana (2022 – 4th ; 2023 – 3rd; 2024 – 3rd) have contested the Third Place game each year.
Admission for the tournament is $12 for the day or $20 for the weekend with all tickets exclusively available online by CLICKING HERE. No tickets will be sold at the door for the event.
Live statistics will be provided courtesy of The FOSH, the preeminent online statistical platform for live statics in the sport of water polo.
Pool Location:
Lindberg Center
Anne Greve Lund Natatorium
Rock Island, IL 61201
Game Schedule (all times Central):
Saturday, May 3
- 2:00 p.m.: Division III No. 1 Pomona-Pitzer Colleges vs. Division III No. 8 Washington & Jefferson College (Live Stats)
- 4:00 p.m.: Division III No. 2 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps vs. Division III No. 7 Augustana College (Live Stats)
Sunday, May 4:
- 10:30 p.m.: Third Place – Loser Game 2 vs. Loser Game 1
- 12:30 p.m.: Championship Game – Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2
