By Paul Ohanian, USA Lacrosse

Sparks, MD — University of Georgia has received the No. 1 seed in the Division I bracket of the 2025 USA Lacrosse Women’s Collegiate Lacrosse Associates (WCLA) National Championships, while CSU San Marcos earned the No. 1 seed in the Division II field.

The WCLA National Championships showcase the nation’s premier non-varsity collegiate women’s teams and will be played May 7-10 at the Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita, Kansas.

Featuring 16 Division I teams and 12 Division II teams, the tournament brackets are comprised of a combination of teams earning automatic qualifiers as league champions and teams earning at-large berths.

Georgia (14-0) is making its 17th overall and 10th straight appearance in the WCLA championship tournament. The Bulldogs won their only WCLA title in 2016 and enter this year’s tournament as the automatic qualifier and champion from the Southeastern Women's Lacrosse League (SWLL). Georgia defeated Clemson in the SWLL’s championship game last weekend to earn the league’s automatic bid.

Defending national champion UCLA (13-0) received the number two seed after holding the top spot in the weekly ranking for much of the 2025 season. The Bruins are making their 16th appearance in the national tournament and return to Wichita as this year’s champion of the Western Women’s Lacrosse League. UCLA made its run to the 2024 WCLA title as the third seed last year, defeating Northeastern, 13-8, in the championship game.

Clemson Club (11-2), this year’s runner-up in the SWLL, is seeded third, and Northeastern (9-3), champion of the Northeast Women’s Lacrosse League, is the number four seed.

In Division II, CSU San Marcos (10-0) earned the top seed for the second straight year after repeating as champion of the Western Women’s Lacrosse League (WWLL). The Cougars are making their fifth overall appearance in the WCLA championship tournament and are the only undefeated D-II team in the nation.

Boise State (8-1), champion of the Rocky Mountain Women's Lacrosse League, is the number two seed and back in the championship for the fourth time. Two more WWLL teams round out the top four, with Concordia (10-3) receiving the number three seed and UC San Diego (7-2) seeded fourth.

Nearly 150 Division I and Division II teams comprise the WCLA and compete under the USA Lacrosse umbrella. The annual WCLA National Championship began in 2001 with a Division I tournament. The Division II championship was added in 2010.

Selections for the championship tournament are based on a variety of criteria, including, overall record, record versus ranked teams, results versus common opponents, quality wins/quality losses, head-to-head results, conference playoff performance, and final conference standings.

Details about video streaming of games from Wichita will be announced shortly.

The Division I and II teams, seedings, and season records are listed below.

Division I Tournament

No. 1 University of Georgia (14-0) 
No. 2 Univ. of California, Los Angeles (13-0)  
No. 3 Clemson University Club (11-2) 
No. 4 Northeastern University (9-3) 
No. 5 Boston College Club (10-3) 
No. 6 University of Central Florida (12-3) 
No. 7 University of Michigan Club (7-5) 
No. 8 University of Utah (8-3) 
No. 9 San Diego State University (10-5) 
No. 10 Univ. of California, Santa Barbara (14-3) 
No. 11 Arizona State University Club (9-4)   
No. 12 Virginia Tech University (5-5) 
No. 13 University of Florida Club (7-6)   
No. 14 University of Pittsburgh (6-4) 
No. 15 Texas A&M University (12-1) 
No. 16 University of Washington (7-4)

Division II Tournament

No. 1 CSU San Marcos (10-0) 
No. 2 Boise State University (8-1) 
No. 3 Concordia University Irvine (10-3) 
No. 4 UC San Diego (7-2) 
No. 5 Florida Atlantic University (9-1) 
No. 6 Montana State University (8-5) 
No. 7 University of Missouri (10-1) 
No. 8 Fullerton College (8-2) 
No. 9 University of Denver Club (7-5) 
No. 10 Stanford University Club (7-2) 
No. 11 Florida Gulf Coast University (6-4) 
No. 12 Drury University (6-2-1)

Lacrosse Specialties, Here We Flo, Powell Lacrosse, and GoLive Sports serve as official event sponsors for the 2025 USA Lacrosse WCLA Championships, with local support provided by Wichita Youth Lacrosse, Visit Wichita, and Chicken N Pickle of Wichita.

More information about the 2025 USA Lacrosse WCLA National Championships, including game schedules and competition brackets, will be posted online at usalacrosse.com/wcla as they are finalized.

UCLA midfielder Marian Macatula scored one of her three goals on this play in the Bruins 9-7 win over San Diego State. Macatula also snagged 7 draw controls and caused two SDSU turnovers. Photo by Cameron Dwyer.

UCLA repeated as WWLL Division 1 champions and Cal State San Marcos repeated as WWLL Division 2 champions at the Western Women's Lacrosse League post-season tournament hosted by UC Santa Cruz. The weather was amazing all weekend but the road to first place was tightly contested for both champions. With their wins both the Bruins and the Cougars get the WWLL automatic qualifier spots for their divisions in the USA Lacrosse sponsored WCLA National Championship Tournament May 9th - 12th in Wichita, Kansas.

The Cougars had a BYE in the quarterfinals but had to persevere in a tough semifinal to win 9-7 over Cal Poly B to advance to the D2 final with Concordia.  The Mustangs had advanced from a 8-4 quarterifinal win over Fullerton College. Concordia advanced with an 8-4 win in their quarterfinal with host UC Santa Cruz and then the Golden Eagles squeaked by UC San Diego in a 7-6 semifinal.  San Marcos then beat Concordia 12-5 to get the repeat D2 trophy and the automatic bid for WCLA Nationals.

Top ranked Cal State San Marcos improved to 12-0 and has a strong case for the #1 seed at WCLA Nationals.  

UCSB won 17-9 in their quarterfinal with Cal Poly SLO to advance to the semifinal with UCLA, who had a BYE in the quarterfinals. The Bruins took down the Gauchos 14-9 in the semifinals to get the matchup with the upstart club from San Diego State. In the 2023 WWLL Championships held at UC San Diego the Aztecs had upset the Bruins 16-15 in overtime but history did not repeat in 2025.

To get to the final San Diego State whopped Grand Canyon 23-5 in their quarterfinal to advance to a semifinal with 2nd seeded ASU, who had a BYE in the quarterfinal round. In the regular season game between the two on February 1st in Tempe, the club from ASU beat SDSU 8-6 so everyone knew this semifinal was going to be special. The Aztecs prevailed in the revenge game with a 8-7 win to advance to face UCLA for the gold, again.

The Bruins prevailed over San Diego State team in a back and forth game that saw UCLA hold off a surging Aztecs squad at the end to hold on and get a 9-7 win and their repeat D1 Championship. Second ranked UCLA improved to 13-0 with the two post-season wins and should get one of the top two seeds at WCLA Nationals.  

Eleven of the twelve teams playing in the two divisions at the WWLL Tournament are nationally ranked or receiving votes, either in the WCLA D1 Poll or the WCLA D2 Poll. Just getting into the WWLL event is a tough task. There was no room for three nationally ranked teams and all three still have a chance at getting selected in at-large spots for WCLA Nationals. 

All game scores are here on the WWLL website and also available along with progress through the brackets on Tourney Machine or with this QR code.