2024 NCAA DIII Women’s Cross Country National Coaches’ Poll – Week 3
NEW ORLEANS – Two big races this weekend will prove crucial to many nationally-ranked teams and their chances to make the upcoming NCAA DIII Cross Country Championships.
Week 3 of the 2024 NCAA DIII Women’s Cross Country National Poll, which was released Wednesday by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association (USTFCCCA) saw slight changes to the top-30 ahead of a massive weekend.
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NCAA Division III — Women's Cross Country
This Week's National Top Five
1
Colorado College
Colorado College
2
Chicago
Chicago
3
NYU
NYU
4
MIT
MIT
5
SUNY Geneseo
SUNY Geneseo
Cross Country Polls & Rankings
Five top-10 teams will measure their potential on Saturday at the Paul Short Run in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which is hosted by Lehigh University. The College Women’s White 6k is the most intriguing with No. 3 NYU, No. 5 SUNY Geneseo, No. 6 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and No. 7 Emory in the field, among other ranked squads. No. 8 Johns Hopkins will compete at the meet, but is entered in the College Women’s Gold 6k as the only NCAA DIII program in the field.
Numerous top-30 crews will race at the Pre-National Invitational on Friday night at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course. Only two of those teams raced at the John McNichols Invitational last month: No. 2 Chicago and No. 10 Washington (Mo.). No. 4 MIT, No. 17 DePauw, No. 19 George Fox, No. 21 Washington and Lee, No. 22 Connecticut College, and No. 29 UC-Santa Cruz will all have a fresh look of the course that will host the approaching NCAA DIII Cross Country Championships on November 23.
Gwyneth Young is a junior studying criminal justice and communications at Elizabethtown College. She is a distance runner on the Blue Jays cross country and track and field teams, where her main events are the 1500 and the 5000. She is originally from Lebanon, Pennsylvania and graduated from Cedar Crest High School, where she ran cross country and track and field as well.
