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Last update: December 31st, 2007

Championships & Regionals

Q1: When and where are regionals being?

A1: The Women's regionals sites:

2008 Women's Regional Sites

Region	Host School
West	Oregon State
North Central	Minnesota
South Central	Oklahoma
Central	LSU
Northeast	Penn State
Southeast	Florida

2009 Women's Regional Sites

Region	Host School
West	Washington
North Central	Iowa
South Central	Arkansas
Central	Ohio State
Northeast	TBA
Southeast	North Carolina

Q2: Where will nationals be held?

A2: The host sites for Women are:

Year	Site
2008 2009 2010	Georgia Nebraska Florida

The 2008 Men's NCAA Championships will be held at Stanford.

Q3: How do Women's teams qualify for Nationals?

A3: For the first time in several seasons, the Regional qualifying method will change. Now, the Top 36 teams ranked by their Regional Qualifying Score (RQS) will qualify to the Regionals. See Q4 below for an explanation of the RQS. The top 18 teams will be placed into a seeding formula (see Q6 below) and distributed across the Regions, with three in each Region. The remaining three slots in each Region will now be filled by teams ranked 19-36 in the standings, with preference given for rank and geographical proximity.

Q4: What is the Women's RQS?

A5: The Regional Qualifying Score (RQS) is determined from the total of a team's best three away meet scores plus top three home or away scores. The high score is thrown out and remaining five are averaged.

Q5: How are Conference meets treated in the RQS?

A5: The host team must count the Conference Meet as a home meet. For the rest, its an away meet.

Q6: How are the Women's teams seeded?

A6: The Women are seeded by criteria established by the NCAA Committee. This criteria is published in the NCAA Championship Handbook. Over the past several years, essentially the same criteria has been used. The criteria used in 2003-2007 was to create ranked "trios" of 1-12-13, 2-11-14... 6-7-18 of the top 18 teams, as determined by the Regional Qualifying Score. A host team in the ranked trio was used to serve to anchor that trio in a region. In the case that more than one team in the trio happened to be a host, the lower ranked team in the trio was exchanged with another team. Preference for seeding is usually given to the highest ranked team in the trio, in terms of geographical proximity for its final placement. The NCAA Committee will also break up trios, if necessary, to maintain diversity in regional representation and conference mix.

Q7: How do individuals qualify to Women's Nationals?

A7: The women can qualify to Nationals as All-Arounders or Event Winners. The top two AAers in each Regional, NOT on a qualifying team advance to Nationals. Regional Champions in each individual event also qualify, if they have not already qualified as a team or AAer.