Year	Dates	Host	Site	Champion
1984			Waverly, Iowa	Buena Vista
1985			Waverly, Iowa	Central
1986			Waverly, Iowa	Central
Tournament not held 1987-2005
2006	May 4-6	Buena Vista	Harlan and Hazel Rogers Sports Complex, Fort Dodge	Wartburg
2007	May 3-5	Central	Harlan and Hazel Rogers Sports Complex, Fort Dodge	Wartburg
2008	May 1-3	Wartburg	Lynes Field, Wartburg College, Waverly	Wartburg
2009	April 30-May 2	Central	A.N. Kuyper Athletics Complex softball field, Central College, Pella	Coe
2010	May 6-8	Simpson	Simpson College Softball Complex, Indianola	Luther
2011	May 5-7	Luther	Luther College Softball Diamond, Decorah	Luther
2012	May 3-5	Luther	Luther College Softball Diamond, Decorah	Central
2013	May 4-5	Coe	Clark Field Softball Diamond, Coe College, Cedar Rapids	Luther
2014	May 1-3	Coe	Clark Field Softball Diamond, Coe College, Cedar Rapids	Luther
2015	May 1-2	Luther	Luther College Softball Diamond, Decorah	Central
2016	May 6-7	Luther	Luther College Softball Diamond, Decorah	Luther
2017	May 5-6	Luther	Betty A. Hoff Field at the Luther College Softball Stadium, Decorah	Luther
2018	May 4-5	Coe	Clark Field Softball Diamond, Coe College, Cedar Rapids	Luther
2019	May 3-4	Central	A.N. Kuyper Athletics Complex Softball Field, Central College, Pella.	Central
2020	May 1-2	No Champion*	*2020 Softball Season Cancelled Due to COVID-19 Outbreak	No Champion*
2021	May 11, 13-15	Coe/Wartburg	Clark Field Softball Diamond, Coe College, Cedar Rapids & Lynes Field, Wartburg College, Waverly.	Luther
2022	May 6-7	Buena Vista	Buena Vista University Softball Field, Storm Lake, Iowa	Wartburg
2023	May 5-6	Coe	Clark Field Softball Diamond, Coe College, Cedar Rapids	Wartburg
2024	May 10-11	Central	A.N. Kuyper Athletics Complex Softball Field, Central College, Pella, Iowa	Coe
2025	May 9-10	Simpson	Simpson College Softball Complex, Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa	Nebraska Wesleyan
2026	May 8-9

**The 2021 A-R-C softball tournament champion was not awarded the AQ bid to the 2021 NCAA Division III Softball Tournament.The bid was given to the regular season conference champion, voted and approved by both the softball coaches and the A-R-C athletic directors. 

 

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Conference Tournament Appearances
(Since 2006)

School	Total Appearances	Conference Tournament Appearances - Year-by-Year
Buena Vista	10	2006, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022
Central	18	2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025
Coe	18	2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Dubuque	7	2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2022
Loras	9	2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2025
Luther	19	2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Nebraska Wesleyan	6	2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Simpson	16	2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025
Wartburg	12	2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Cornell	2	2008, 2011

*There was no 2020 A-R-C conference tournament due to the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

Championship Game Appearances
(Since 2006)

School	Total Champ. App.	Championship Appearances - Year-by-Year
Buena Vista	0	----
Central	6	2012, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2024, 2025
Coe	10	2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2024
Dubuque	0	----
Loras	0	----
Luther	12	2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023
Nebraska Wesleyan	3	2021, 2022, 2025
Simpson	2	2010, 2016
Wartburg	5	2006, 2007, 2008, 2022, 2023
Cornell	0	----