NCAA bowling championship

The NCAA Bowling Championship is a sanctioned women's championship in college athletics. Unlike many NCAA sports, only one National Collegiate championship is held each season with teams from Division I, Division II, and Division III competing together. Nineteen teams, eleven of them automatic qualifiers and the other eight being at-large selections, are chosen by the NCAA Bowling Committee to compete in the championship. The championship was first held in April 2004.

The most successful team is Nebraska with 6 titles. Youngstown State is the reigning champion, defeating 2024 champion Jacksonville State 4 games to 3 in the 2025 championship held at Suncoast Bowling Center in Las Vegas, NV.

Nebraska is the only program to qualify for all 21 NCAA Bowling Championships since the NCAA started sponsoring bowling in the 2003–04 season.

In July 2025, the Division II Management Council recommended that the division's executive board sponsor legislation that would establish a separate D-II bowling championship. This legislation was considered by the D-II membership at the 2026 NCAA convention. The Division II Championships Committee had started a feasibility study for a D-II bowling championship after the 2023–24 school year, at which time 38 D-II members sponsored the sport. Under current Division II rules, 35 members must sponsor a sport before a separate D-II championship can be established. The final legislation was approved at the 2026 NCAA convention, with the first D-II bowling championship taking place in April 2028. Current NCAA rules require that once a division-specific championship is approved for a sport that uses the National Collegiate format, two National Collegiate championships must be held before the division championship can start.