Women’s Division II Announces 2025 National Championships Contenders Based on Final Ranking
The 16 spots for Women’s D2 teams at Nationals are officially locked in
TROY, Mich. – March 4, 2025 – The American Collegiate Hockey Association’s Women’s Division II (W2) is pleased to announce the 16 teams invited to compete at the 2025 National Championships. The results are based on the sixth and final computer ranking of the 2024-25 season, which consisted of 555 total games played between 72 W2 teams through Sunday, March 2, 2025.
The Women’s D2 tournament at the 2025 ACHA National Championships presented by FloHockey will begin Friday, March 21 at the Centene Community Ice Center in Maryland Heights, Missouri.
Congratulations to each of these teams for clinching a spot at Nationals.
2025 W2 Nationals Contenders
NORTHEAST REGION
- Northeastern University
- Boston University
- Boston College
- Providence College
SOUTHEAST REGION
- Liberty University
- United States Naval Academy
- Villanova University
- Niagara University
- Mercyhurst University
CENTRAL REGION
- Sault College
- Eastern Michigan University
- The Ohio State University
- Central Michigan University
WEST REGION
- Assiniboine College
- University of Wisconsin
- University of Saint Thomas
Each team is guaranteed three games of pool play. The winner of each pool will advance to the semi-finals on Monday March 24, with the Championship game scheduled for Tuesday, March 25. The schedule of pool play matchups by seed, as well as ticket sales for fans, is available here.
The full details of the sixth and final W2 ranking of the season can be found here.
Details About Rankings & Invitations to Nationals
Invitations to 2025 Nationals were extended to the top-ranking W2 teams in each region based on the final ranking of the season. All teams were aware all season of how many invitations each region would receive for Nationals.
A note about the W2 pools: As voted on by the division at the 2024 ACHA Annual Meeting, the 3, 4 and 5 seeds from each region were randomly assigned pools prior to the final ranking. The pools feel completely random, because they are.
The following four conferences recognized by the ACHA with at least six W2 ACHA member teams were also offered an automatic bid to the 2025 W2 National Championships for their top team. Note that if a team already ranked in a qualifying spot for their region won an auto bid, the auto bid had no impact. If a team that was not ranked in a qualifying spot for their region won the auto bid, that team would replace the lowest ranked team in their region. For this season, auto bids did not impact the final ranking; every team invited to Nationals happened to be ranked.
Congratulations to the following conference championship winners:
- Central Collegiate Women’s Hockey Association (CCWHA) – Sault College
- College Hockey East (CHE) – Mercyhurst University
- Delaware Valley College Hockey Conference (DVCHC) – Villanova University
- Independent Women’s Club Hockey League (IWCHL) – Providence College
For more information about W2 policies and procedures, including details about how W2 Nationals pool assignments are decided, please review the ACHA Policy Manual.
