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Sport | College tennis |
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Founded | 1982 |
No. of teams | 64 |
Country | United States |
Most recent champion(s) | Team: UNC (1) Singles: Brienne Minor, Michigan Doubles: Francesca Di Lorenzo and Miho Kowase, Ohio State (2) |
Official website | NCAA.com |
The NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship is the National Collegiate Athletic Association's tennis tournament to determine the Team Championships, Singles Championships, and Doubles Championships for women's tennis athletes from Division I institutions. Tennis was one of twelve women's sports added to the NCAA championship program for the 1981–82 school year, as the NCAA engaged in battle with the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women for sole governance of women's collegiate sports. The AIAW continued to conduct its established championship program in the same twelve (and other) sports; however, after a year of dual women's championships, the NCAA outlasted the AIAW to gain sole authority over women's sports.[1]
The Division I NCAA team tournament was expanded to 64 teams in 1999.