2024 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament
| 2024 NCAA women's Division I volleyball tournament | |
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2024 NCAA Division I Championship | |
| Finals site | KFC Yum! Center Louisville, Kentucky |
| Champions | Penn State (8th title) |
| Runner-up | Louisville (2nd title match) |
| Semifinalists |
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| Winning coach | Katie Schumacher-Cawley (1st title) |
| Most outstanding player | Jess Mruzik (Penn State) |
| Final Four All-Tournament Team | Camryn Hannah (Penn State) Gillian Grimes (Penn State) Charitie Luper (Louisville) Sofia Maldonado Diaz (Louisville) Harper Murray (Nebraska) Olivia Babcock (Pittsburgh) |
The 2024 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 64 teams that determined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I women's volleyball national champion for the 2024 season. It was the 44th edition of the tournament. It began on December 5, 2024, in various college campuses across the country, location determinations were chosen based on participating teams seedings. The tournament concluded with the championship game at KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky on December 22, 2024.
Pittsburgh earned the #1 overall seed, while Nebraska, Penn State, and Louisville rounded out the top-4 overall seeds. All four teams successfully defeated their first & second round opponents, allowing them to host the regional rounds. Penn State remains the only NCAA Division I women's volleyball program to earn a bid to all 44 NCAA Tournaments since its inception in 1981.
For the first time since the 2008 NCAA tournament, all top-4 overall seeds made it to the final four. The wins guaranteed an ACC vs. Big Ten final, as the semifinal matchups were between conference foes Pittsburgh/Louisville and Nebraska/Penn State. With Louisville and Penn State advancing to the national championship, a female head coach would be guaranteed to win the NCAA Division I championship for the first time in NCAA women's volleyball history.
Penn State won the program's 8th national championship by defeating Louisville 3–1 in the final. Louisville was making its second championship match appearance in 3 years. Penn State was led by Jess Mruzik who had 29 kills. Mruzik would go on to win the NCAA Tournament MVP. Katie Schumacher-Cawley made history by being the first female Division I head volleyball coach to win the title.