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2015 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship

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Dates
  
May 8–24, 2015

Finals site
  
PPL Park Chester, PA

Teams
  
26

Champions
  
Maryland (12th title)

Runner-up
  
North Carolina (3rd title game)

MOP
  
Taylor Cummings, Maryland

The 2015 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship was the 34th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of Division I NCAA women's college lacrosse. For the first time, the semifinal and championship rounds were played at PPL Park (the home of the Philadelphia Union of the MLS) in Chester, Pennsylvania from May 22–24, 2015.

Maryland defeated North Carolina in the final, 9–8, to win their twelfth national title.

Qualification

All NCAA Division I women's lacrosse programs were eligible for this championship, and a total of 26 teams were invited to participate. 13 teams qualified automatically by winning their conference tournaments while the remaining 13 teams qualified at-large based on their regular season records.

  • Automatic Qualifiers: Stony Brook (America East), Massachusetts (Atlantic 10), Syracuse (ACC), Jacksonville (Atlantic Sun), Florida (Big East), Winthrop (Big South), Penn State (Big Ten), James Madison (CAA), Princeton (Ivy), Fairfield (MAAC), Stanford (MPSF), Bryant (NEC), and Loyola Maryland (Patriot)
  • At-large Qualifiers: Albany, Boston College, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Louisville, Maryland, North Carolina, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Pennsylvania, USC, and Virginia

    • References

    2015 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship Wikipedia
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