NCAA women's water polo championship
| Association | NCAA |
|---|---|
| Sport | Collegiate Water polo |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Division | Division I and Division II |
| No. of teams | 9 |
| Most recent champion(s) | Stanford (10th) |
| Most titles | Stanford (10) |
| Official website | NCAA.com |
The NCAA women's water polo championship is the annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the team national champion of women's collegiate water polo among its members in the United States, held each year since 2001.
Unlike most NCAA sports, only one National Collegiate championship is held each season with teams from Division I and Division II. Division III received their own in 2022.
Stanford has been the most successful program, with 10 championships; UCLA has the second most (8), followed by USC (6). One of these three California schools has won the championship every year since the tournament began in 2001.
While the tournament often includes teams from around the country, most programs are located within the state of California, and no school from outside California has ever surpassed third place or participated in the NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship game. Indeed, only twice has a school other than Stanford, UCLA, or USC participated in the championship game: Loyola Marymount who lost to USC in 2004 and California (the other California-based Pac-12 school) who lost to Stanford in 2011.