BALTIMORE — The 2006 US Lacrosse Men's Division Intercollegiate Associates National Championship Division A and B fields were announced today by US Lacrosse.

The teams will travel to Dallas, Texas where they will compete from May 9-13 at the Russell Creek Athletic Complex and Tom Kimbrough Stadium. The event is sponsored by Lax World, Sports Her Way and STX.

Colorado State University received the top-seed in the Division A bracket while the University of San Diego will look to defend its Division B title as the top-seed again in the other bracket.

The 2006 US Lacrosse MDIA National Championship fields are below with the team's seeding number (not national ranking). An asterisk indicates the team received an at-large bid. The top four teams in Division B receive a first round bye.

Division A	Division B
No. 1 *Colorado State	No. 1 San Diego
No. 2 Sonoma State	No. 2 Utah Valley State
No. 3 *Colorado	No. 3 St. Thomas
No. 4 *Michigan	No. 4 *Claremont
No. 5 *BYU	No. 5 Montana
No. 6 Florida State	No. 6 *St. John’s (Minn.)
No. 7 *UC-San Diego	No. 7 Eckerd
No. 8 *Arizona	No. 8 *Northern Colorado
No. 9 Oregon	No. 9 Calvin
No. 10 *UC-Santa Barbara	No. 10 Augustana
No. 11 *Cal Poly	No. 11 *Harding
No. 12 Lindenwood	No. 12 Southwestern
No. 13 Oakland (Mich.)
No. 14 Minnesota-Duluth
No. 15 Northeastern
No. 16 Texas

There are five schools—St. Thomas, Claremont College, Eckerd College, Northern Colorado and Augustana College—making their debut in the US Lacrosse MDIA Division B national championship.

The 16-team US Lacrosse Women's Division Intercollegiate Associates National Championship field was announced on April 27 and is available on the US Lacrosse Web site. The women's tournament begins on Thursday, May 11.

The MDIA Division B championship game will be played on Saturday, May 13 at 1 p.m. in Tom Kimbrough Stadium followed by the WDIA and MDIA Division A championship games at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m., respectively. CSTV will televise the Men's Division A and Women's Division national championship games in their entirety. Both games will be aired on a tape-delay basis on Monday, May 29 with the women's game starting at 8 p.m. followed by the men’s game at 10 p.m. (Eastern time).

Complete coverage of the 2006 US Lacrosse Intercollegiate Associates National Championships will be available on the US Lacrosse Web site at www.uslacrosse.org.

The US Lacrosse Intercollegiate Associates (IA) are college lacrosse teams, primarily at the club level, that compete in a national structure. There are nearly 400 men's and women's teams from around the country competing under the IA umbrella in three divisions.

This year's championships will bring 44 teams to Dallas to compete for three championships. Sixteen teams will compete in the Men's Division A field, 12 in the Men's Division B and 16 in the Women's Division field. All three championships were won by California schools in 2005: UC-Santa Barbara (Men's A), University of San Diego (Men's B) and Cal Poly (Women's).

This will be the ninth year for the Division A championship and only the second year for Division B which debuted last year with an eight team field.

US Lacrosse, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is the national governing body for men's and women's lacrosse. To learn more about the organization, please visit www.uslacrosse.org.

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