CLEVELAND, OH - Kenyon (7-0 NCAC) has won its fourth-consecutive, and league-leading 23rd overall, North Coast Athletic Conference women's tennis championship after finishing the season with a perfect mark against conference opponents. Denison has accumulated 13 NCAC championship titles, while DePauw captured four, and Allegheny earned the inaugural conference championship in 1985. 

Denison (6-1) finished second in the regular season standings, followed by John Carroll (5-2), Oberlin (4-3), Ohio Wesleyan (3-4), DePauw (2-5), Wooster (1-6) and Wittenberg (0-7) in places three through eight.

As league champions, Kenyon has earned the No. 1 seed, hosting rights and a bye in the quarterfinal round of the 2026 NCAC Women's Tennis Tournament. As the No. 2 seed, Denison has also earned a bye into the semifinal round. The three-day, five-match, single-elimination tournament will be held Friday-Sunday, May 1-3. The tournament begins with quarterfinal matches on Friday, followed by semifinal matches on Saturday and then the tournament championship match on Sunday.

The first quarterfinal match on Friday will feature No. 4 Oberlin and No. 5 Ohio Wesleyan at 11:00 a.m., while the second quarterfinal match is scheduled for a 1:30 p.m. start with No. 3 John Carroll taking on No. 6 DePauw.

On Saturday, the first semifinal is scheduled to begin at 11:00 a.m. with No. 1 Kenyon meeting the winner of Oberlin/Ohio Wesleyan, while the winner of John Carroll/DePauw will square off with No. 2 Denison at 1:30 p.m. 

The championship match is set for 12:00 p.m. on Sunday with the tournament winner receiving the NCAC's automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.