2023 NCAA DIII Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Rating Index – Week 9

NEW ORLEANS – It’s Championship Week!

Here is the final installment of the NCAA DIII Women’s Outdoor Track & Field National Rating Index for the 2023 season. This edition only features marks from those athletes who qualified for the 2023 NCAA DIII Outdoor Track & Field Championships, which begin this Thursday in Rochester, New York. No other marks have been used in this calculation.

NCAA Division III — Women's Outdoor Track & Field

This Week's National Top Five

1
UW-La Crosse

2
Loras

3
Washington (Mo.)

4
Chicago

5
MIT

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No. 1 UW-La Crosse

• National top seeds: Skye Digman, shot put (15.42m/50-7¼), hammer (59.45m/195-1)
• National top-5 seeds: 11
• National top-10 seeds: 16

No. 2 Loras

• National top seeds: Kassie Parker, 5000 meters (15:37.00), 10,000 meters (32:36.22); 4×100 relay (45.72); 4×400 relay (3:40.61); Grace Alley, heptathlon (5163)
• National top-5 seeds: 8
• National top-10 seeds: 10

No. 3 Washington (Mo.)

• National top seeds: Emma Kelley, 800 meters (2:04.41)
• National top-5 seeds: 5
• National top-10 seeds: 8

No. 4 UChicago

• National top seeds: 0
• National top-5 seeds: 3
• National top-10 seeds: 10

No. 5 MIT

• National top seeds: 0
• National top-5 seeds: 3
• National top-10 seeds: 6

Here are the rest of the top-10 teams in the Pre-Championships Edition: No. 6 Mount Union, No. 7 Wartburg, No. 8 SUNY Geneseo, No. 9 Johns Hopkins and No. 10 Rochester (N.Y.). Three of those teams have at least one national top seed on their roster: the sixth-ranked Purple Raiders, the seventh-ranked Knights and the ninth-ranked Blue Jays.

ODDS & ENDS: UW-La Crosse, seeking its fourth national title in program history (first since 2015), has a staggering 31 entries to the Championships … Loras is the three-time defending champion. If the Duhawks make it four in a row, they’ll be the first women’s program in NCAA DIII history to do so … Washington (Mo.) hopes to land on the podium for the sixth time in program history, while UChicago eyes its first with its best finish in program history currently sitting at sixth.