2025 NCAA DIII Men’s Cross Country National Coaches’ Poll – Week 3

NEW ORLEANS – This is the calm before the storm.

Here is the newest edition of the 2025 NCAA DIII Men’s Cross Country National Coaches’ Poll, as released by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) on Tuesday. USTFCCCA polls and rankings are presented by AthleticNET.

NCAA Division III — Men's Cross Country

This Week's National Top Five

1
UW-La Crosse

2
Wartburg

3
SUNY Geneseo

4
Pomona-Pitzer

5
Johns Hopkins

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UW-La Crosse holds the top spot once again, as it has done so for over a year since last year’s rankings. The Eagles, who are no longer unanimous, didn’t compete this past weekend and look ahead to race at Notre Dame’s vaunted Joe Piane Invitational. UW-La Crosse will divide and hope to conquer as it send a second group of men to the Blugold Invitational in Colfax, Wisconsin.

Wartburg remains second, but captured one of UW-La Crosse’s first-place votes despite not competing. The Knights look to compete this weekend at their home meet at the Dan Huston Invitational, along with some national competition in two weeks at the Augustana Interregional Invitational in Rock Island, Illinois.

SUNY Geneseo holds down the third spot in the National Coaches’ Poll. The Knights rested their top men and raced without their top two runners this past weekend at the Harry F. Anderson Invitational. The team competed together as a pack and closed hard to capture the team title SUNY. Geneseo looks ahead to compete at the Paul Short Run hosted by Lehigh University.

Pomona-Pitzer sits fourth in this edition. The Sagehens competed at the UC-Riverside Invitational, where their third-place finish was led by M-F Athletic National Athlete of the Week Jack Stein, who ran a strong 23:45. Pomona-Pitzer looks to compete at their home invite this coming weekend before traveling to Augustana College for its interregional invite.

Johns Hopkins once again rounds out the top-five teams. The Blue Jays didn’t compete, but will this weekend at the Paul Short Run, alongside the rest of NCAA DIII’s finest teams. 

North Central (Ill.) holds sixth and Tufts holds their seventh as they both did not compete. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps rises to eighth over Williams as the Stags were only 14 points behind Pomona-Pitzer at the UC-Riverside Invite. Williams falls to ninth as they did not compete, and RPI rounds out the top-ten teams for week three.

This is likely the last time the National Coaches’ Poll looks like this, with teams gearing up for the stretch run toward the 2025 NCAA DIII Cross Country Championships on November 22 at the Roger Millikin Cross Country Course in Spartanburg, South Carolina.