INDIANAPOLIS– The NCAA has selected more than 600 host sites for preliminary rounds and finals of predetermined championships in Divisions I, II and III to be held from 2017-18 through 2021-22, including sites for the next four NCAA Division II and III Softball Championships.

Metropolitan State University of Denver will host three championships- 2019, 2021 and 2022- with St. Louis, Mo. (Lindenwood) and the St. Charles CVB & St. Louis Sports Commission the site for the 2020 Spring Festival. Metro State was the most recent site of the 2016 Spring Festival.

For Division III, Texas-Tyler will host in 2019 and 2020, while familar faces, the ODAC and City of Salem will entertain the 2021 and 2022 championships. Salem hosted the last two championships in 2015 and 2016 and have been the site for 12 NCAA Division III tournament.

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The NCAA received more than 3,000 bid submissions from NCAA member schools, conferences, sports commissions and cities vying to host predetermined rounds for 84 of the NCAA’s 90 championships. A total of 613 sites were awarded for this cycle. The respective NCAA sports committees and the divisional championships cabinets/committees reviewed the bid proposals and selected the sites.

Six championships were not included in this bid cycle. Division I baseball, Division I softball, Division I men’s and women’s outdoor track and field, which is tallied as two separate championships, and the Football Championship Subdivision game were omitted due to existing contracts. The sixth championship, Division III women’s ice hockey, does not select predetermined sites.  

— Courtesy of NCAA