COLONIA, N.J. – The four team 2026 East Coast Conference Women's Volleyball Championship field has been confirmed and the league’s top teams will battle for ECC supremacy and the conference’s AQ into the NCAA Championship on Friday and Saturday, November 13 and 14, at Mercy University’s Judge Athletic Center in Dobbs Ferry, NY. The postseason field will feature No. 1 Mercy, No. 2 D'Youville, No. 3 Daemen, and No. 4 Molloy.
 
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Mercy clinched its second straight ECC Regular Season Championship, securing the No. 1 seed for the second consecutive year and ECC Championship hosting rights. The Mavs, which are receiving votes nationally, finished the 2026 regular season with a 24-1 overall record and a perfect 12-0 ECC mark, winning the program’s sixth regular season title (1998-2001, 2025, 2026) and their most ECC and overall wins in a single season. Mercy is riding a 16-match winning streak and becomes the first team to run the table in the ECC since Daemen in 2023. The Mavericks dominated ECC foes this season, sweeping seven of its 12 conference matches, while only surrendering eight sets in total during the league stanza. Mercy, who has qualified for seven straight ECC tournaments, enters the postseason as the defending champion and has won four ECC Championships overall.


After qualifying for the ECC Championship field as the No. 4 seed the past two seasons, D'Youville (15-13, 8-4 ECC) ascended to the No. 2 seed in the 2026 field as the Saints make their third straight appearance in the postseason. The Saints recorded their most ECC and overall wins in a season since joining the conference. D'Youville wrapped up the final weekend of the regular season with a 3-1 win over Queens (Saturday) and a five-set defeat to No. 1 Mercy on Sunday. The Saints won the 2024 ECC Championship as the No. 4 seeded team two seasons ago.
 
Daemen (16-10, 8-4 ECC) earned the No. 3 seed and concluded the regular season on a five-game winning streak. The Wildcats took down Molloy in four sets on Saturday and swept Queens on Sunday during the final weekend series. Daemen has clinched berths to eight straight ECC postseasons and nine of the last 10 since 2016. The Wildcats won four ECC Championships over a five-year span from 2018 through 2023 and have appeared in five ECC Championship Finals dating back to 2016. 
 
2025 Championship runner-up, Molloy makes its return to the postseason bracket for an eighth time in the last nine seasons and will be the No. 4 after going 11-15 and 6-6 in the ECC. The Lions dropped their two matches of the final week, having a 3-2 setback to St. Thomas Aquinas on Wednesday and falling to Daemen on Saturday. Molloy won ECC Championships in 2017 and 2019 and have appeared in the Finals six times in the last eight seasons. 
 
The Mavericks and the Lions will meet at 4:00 PM on Friday in the first Semifinal Round matchup. Mercy swept the season series against Molloy, sweeping the Lions on October 10 on the road and beating them 3-2 at home on October 30. This contest will be a rematch of the 2025 Championship Final, which Mercy won 3-0.
 
The Saints and Wildcats will meet at 6:30 PM in Friday’s second Semifinal contest. The teams split the regular season series. D'Youville swept Daemen on October 11, while Daemen won a five-setter against D'Youville on October 28. The last postseason matchup between the two sides was during the 2024 Semifinal Round, that resulted in a 3-2 upset win by the No. 4 seed D'Youville over the No. 1 seed Daemen.
 
The winners will advance to the 2026 ECC Women’s Volleyball Championship Final on Saturday evening at 5:00 PM.
 
2026 ECC Women's Volleyball Championship
Semifinals - Friday, November 13
4:00 PM – No. 4 Molloy vs. No. 1 Mercy
6:30 PM – No. 3 Daemen vs. No. 2 D'Youville
**or 60 minutes after conclusion of first semifinal

Final - Saturday, November 14
5:00 PM – Winners of the Semifinals
 
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Founded as the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference in 1989 and rechristened the East Coast Conference in July 2006, the ECC was formed to enhance intercollegiate athletic competition among member institutions and to assist them in integrating athletics into their academic program in a fiscally sound way. The ECC is committed to the highest standards of scholarship, sportsmanship, teamwork, and citizenship. Its mission is to promote the total person concept in its student-athletes, which stresses the abilities to excel in academic achievement, athletic competition, and positive character traits. East Coast Conference members include: Daemen University (Amherst, N.Y.); University of the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.); D'Youville University (Buffalo, N.Y.); Mercy University (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.); Molloy University (Rockville Centre, N.Y.); Queens College (Flushing, N.Y.); Roberts Wesleyan University (Rochester, N.Y.); College of Staten Island (Staten Island, N.Y.); and St. Thomas Aquinas College (Sparkill, N.Y.). The ECC also is home to 13 associate members in the sports of women’s bowling (3), men’s and women’s indoor track & field (3), men's volleyball (2), field hockey (1), and men’s lacrosse (1).

The ECC sponsors the following championship sports: baseball; men’s and women’s basketball; women's bowling; men’s and women’s cross country; field hockey; men’s and women’s lacrosse; men’s and women’s indoor track and field; men’s and women’s outdoor track and field; men’s and women’s soccer; softball; and men's and women’s volleyball.
 
The East Coast Conference is a proud member of the NCAA and Division II. Division II is a dynamic and engaging group of colleges, institutions and conferences of varying sizes and educational missions. Division II members encourage and support diversity; value sportsmanship, fairness and equity; and place the highest priority on the overall educational excellence of the student-athlete.