The 2006

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was the 25th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of Division I

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. The championship game was played at

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during May 2006. All NCAA Division I women's lacrosse programs were eligible for this championship, and a total of 16 teams were invited to participate. Northwestern defeated Dartmouth, 7–4, to win their second national championship. This would subsequently become the second of Northwestern's seven national titles in eight years (2005–2009, 2011–12). The leading scorer for the tournament was Crysti Foote from Notre Dame (17 goals). Sarah Albrecht, from Northwestern, was named the tournament's ''Most Outstanding Player''.

Qualification

A total of 16 teams were invited to participate. 10 teams qualified automatically by winning their conference tournaments while the remaining 6 teams qualified at-large based on their regular season records.

Play-in game

Teams

Tournament bracket

All-tournament team

* Whitney Douthett, Dartmouth * Sarah Szeefi, Dartmouth *

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, Dartmouth * Kristen Zimmer, Dartmouth *Laura Anderson, Duke * Katie Chrest, Duke * Sarah Albrecht, Northwestern (Most outstanding player) * Lindsay Finocchiaro, Northwestern * Aly Josephs, Northwestern * Kristen Kjellman, Northwestern * Morgan Lathrop, Northwestern * Crysti Foote, Notre Dame * Becky Ranck, Notre Dame

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