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NCAA Division III
Women's Cross Country
Regional Coaches' Rankings
NCAA Division III
Women's Cross Country
Regional Coaches' Rankings
2021
2021
Week-by-Week Ranking
East (NCAA DIII)
| Team | Preseason | Week #1 | Week #2 | Week #3 | Week #4 | Week #5 | Week #6 | Week #7 | FINAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tufts | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| MIT | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Bates | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Brandeis | 8 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Wellesley | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
| Colby | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 |
| Bowdoin | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
| WPI | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
| Colby-Sawyer | 10 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Endicott | 10 | ||||||||
| Wheaton (Mass.) | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 11 |
| Suffolk | 10 | 12 | |||||||
| Univ. of New England | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 13 | ||||
| Plymouth State | 14 | ||||||||
| Gordon (Mass.) | 15 | ||||||||
| Emerson | 16 | ||||||||
| Simmons | 17 | ||||||||
| Regis (Mass.) | 18 | ||||||||
| Husson | 19 | ||||||||
| Bridgewater State | 20 | ||||||||
| Keene State | 21 | ||||||||
| Clark (Mass.) | 22 | ||||||||
| Saint Joseph's (Maine) | 23 | ||||||||
| Fitchburg State | 24 | ||||||||
| Babson | 25 | ||||||||
| UMaine Farmington | 26 | ||||||||
| UMass Boston | 27 | ||||||||
| UMaine Presque Isle | 28 | ||||||||
| Lasell | 29 | ||||||||
| Worcester State | 10 |
Great Lakes (NCAA DIII)
| Team | Preseason | Week #1 | Week #2 | Week #3 | Week #4 | Week #5 | Week #6 | Week #7 | FINAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hope | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Calvin | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| John Carroll | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Case Western Reserve | 9 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| Trine | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Allegheny (Pa.) | 10 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Ohio Northern | 7 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
| Mount Union | 7 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | |
| DePauw | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | |||
| Oberlin | 5 | 10 | |||||||
| Centre | 11 | ||||||||
| Manchester | 10 | 10 | 12 | ||||||
| Wooster | 13 | ||||||||
| Baldwin Wallace | 6 | 14 | |||||||
| Kenyon | 9 | 10 | 10 | 15 | |||||
| Kalamazoo | 10 | 10 | 16 | ||||||
| Franciscan | 17 | ||||||||
| Wittenberg | 18 | ||||||||
| Denison | 19 | ||||||||
| Albion | 20 | ||||||||
| Rose-Hulman | 21 | ||||||||
| Saint Mary's (Ind.) | 22 | ||||||||
| Otterbein | 4 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 23 | ||||
| Heidelberg | 24 | ||||||||
| Hanover | 25 | ||||||||
| Anderson (Ind.) | 26 | ||||||||
| Ohio Wesleyan | 27 | ||||||||
| Adrian | 28 | ||||||||
| Bluffton | 29 | ||||||||
| Franklin | 30 | ||||||||
| Olivet | 31 | ||||||||
| Capital | 32 | ||||||||
| Alma | 33 | ||||||||
| Earlham | 34 | ||||||||
| Marietta | 35 | ||||||||
| Berea (Ky.) | 36 | ||||||||
| Defiance (Ohio) | 37 |
Metro (NCAA DIII)
| Team | Preseason | Week #1 | Week #2 | Week #3 | Week #4 | Week #5 | Week #6 | Week #7 | FINAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haverford | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Swarthmore | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Widener | 3 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 |
| TCNJ | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | |
| Moravian | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Stockton | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| Muhlenberg | 10 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 7 | |
| Ursinus | 9 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| DeSales | 9 | 9 | 8 | 9 | |||||
| Rowan | 2 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| Ramapo | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | |||||
| Arcadia | 12 | ||||||||
| St. Joseph's (Long Island) | 13 | ||||||||
| Bryn Mawr | 14 | ||||||||
| Stevens | 8 | 10 | 15 | ||||||
| Eastern (Pa.) | 7 | 9 | 10 | 16 | |||||
| Montclair State | 17 | ||||||||
| Drew | 18 | ||||||||
| Immaculata | 19 | ||||||||
| Cedar Crest | 20 | ||||||||
| Valley Forge (Pa.) | 21 | ||||||||
| Gwynedd Mercy | 22 | ||||||||
| Cairn | 23 | ||||||||
| Cabrini | 24 |
Mid-Atlantic (NCAA DIII)
| Team | Preseason | Week #1 | Week #2 | Week #3 | Week #4 | Week #5 | Week #6 | Week #7 | FINAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Dickinson | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Carnegie Mellon | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Susquehanna | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | |
| Misericordia | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| Lebanon Valley | 7 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 6 | |
| Scranton | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 7 | ||
| Franklin & Marshall | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | |
| Elizabethtown | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 9 |
| Messiah | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | |
| Waynesburg | 8 | 11 | |||||||
| Salisbury | 8 | 9 | 12 | ||||||
| York (Pa.) | 10 | 9 | 13 | ||||||
| Gettysburg | 9 | 14 | |||||||
| Grove City | 15 | ||||||||
| Geneva | 16 | ||||||||
| Marywood | 17 | ||||||||
| Stevenson | 18 | ||||||||
| Washington & Jefferson | 19 | ||||||||
| King's College (Pa.) | 20 | ||||||||
| Alvernia | 21 | ||||||||
| Wilkes | 22 | ||||||||
| St. Mary's (Md.) | 23 | ||||||||
| Chatham | 24 | ||||||||
| Juniata | 25 | ||||||||
| Hood | 26 | ||||||||
| McDaniel | 27 | ||||||||
| Lycoming | 28 | ||||||||
| Thiel | 29 | ||||||||
| Penn College | 30 | ||||||||
| Notre Dame (Md.) | 31 |
Mideast (NCAA DIII)
| Team | Preseason | Week #1 | Week #2 | Week #3 | Week #4 | Week #5 | Week #6 | Week #7 | FINAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williams | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Middlebury | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Amherst | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Smith | 7 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 4 | |
| Mount Holyoke | 9 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 5 | |
| St. Lawrence | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 6 |
| Connecticut College | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | ||
| RPI | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 8 |
| Wesleyan (Conn.) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 9 |
| Vassar | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |||||
| Coast Guard | 8 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 11 | |||
| Clarkson | 12 | ||||||||
| Springfield (Mass.) | 10 | 13 | |||||||
| Trinity (Conn.) | 7 | 10 | 14 | ||||||
| SUNY Plattsburgh | 15 | ||||||||
| Westfield State | 8 | 16 | |||||||
| SUNY New Paltz | 17 | ||||||||
| Roger Williams | 18 | ||||||||
| Eastern Connecticut State | 19 | ||||||||
| Salve Regina | 20 | ||||||||
| Union (N.Y.) | 21 | ||||||||
| Norwich | 22 | ||||||||
| Sage Colleges | 23 | ||||||||
| Western Connecticut State | 24 |
Midwest (NCAA DIII)
| Team | Preseason | Week #1 | Week #2 | Week #3 | Week #4 | Week #5 | Week #6 | Week #7 | FINAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wartburg | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Washington (Mo.) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Chicago | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Loras | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Elmhurst | 8 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 |
| Central (Iowa) | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | |
| Wheaton (Ill.) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 7 |
| Millikin | 10 | 8 | |||||||
| Simpson (Iowa) | 10 | 9 | |||||||
| Illinois Wesleyan | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 10 |
| North Central (Ill.) | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 11 |
| Luther | 7 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 12 | ||||
| Nebraska Wesleyan | 13 | ||||||||
| Aurora | 14 | ||||||||
| Webster | 15 | ||||||||
| Cornell College | 9 | 10 | 10 | 16 | |||||
| Grinnell | 17 | ||||||||
| Augustana (Ill.) | 18 | ||||||||
| Monmouth (Ill.) | 19 | ||||||||
| Greenville | 20 | ||||||||
| Lake Forest | 21 | ||||||||
| North Park | 22 | ||||||||
| Dubuque | 23 | ||||||||
| Dominican (Ill.) | 24 | ||||||||
| Cornell | 9 |
Niagara (NCAA DIII)
| Team | Preseason | Week #1 | Week #2 | Week #3 | Week #4 | Week #5 | Week #6 | Week #7 | FINAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUNY Geneseo | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Rochester (N.Y.) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| Ithaca | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| Hamilton | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
| St. John Fisher | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| Nazareth | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| RIT | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| NYU | 7 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 8 | |
| SUNY Cortland | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | |
| SUNY Brockport | 8 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 10 |
| SUNY Oneonta | 11 | ||||||||
| William Smith | 12 | ||||||||
| SUNY Delhi | 13 | ||||||||
| SUNY Oswego | 14 | ||||||||
| Utica | 15 | ||||||||
| Penn State Behrend | 16 | ||||||||
| Fredonia | 17 | ||||||||
| Alfred | 18 | ||||||||
| Hartwick | 19 | ||||||||
| Alfred State | 20 | ||||||||
| Houghton | 10 | 10 |
North (NCAA DIII)
| Team | Preseason | Week #1 | Week #2 | Week #3 | Week #4 | Week #5 | Week #6 | Week #7 | FINAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UW-La Crosse | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| UW-Eau Claire | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Carleton | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| St. Olaf | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| UW-Oshkosh | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 5 |
| UW-Stevens Point | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| Saint Benedict | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 7 |
| UW-Stout | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Gustavus Adolphus | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 |
| Bethel (Minn.) | 10 | 9 | 10 | ||||||
| Lawrence | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 11 | |||
| Macalester | 12 | ||||||||
| Carroll (Wis.) | 13 | ||||||||
| Ripon | 14 | ||||||||
| UW-Platteville | 15 | ||||||||
| Edgewood | 16 | ||||||||
| St. Norbert | 9 | 17 | |||||||
| Concordia Moorhead | 18 | ||||||||
| St. Scholastica | 19 | ||||||||
| Hamline | 20 | ||||||||
| Concordia Wisconsin | 21 | ||||||||
| UW-Whitewater | 22 | ||||||||
| MSOE | 23 | ||||||||
| Carthage | 24 | ||||||||
| UW-River Falls | 25 | ||||||||
| Wisconsin Lutheran | 26 | ||||||||
| Martin Luther | 27 | ||||||||
| Minnesota Morris | 28 | ||||||||
| Bethany Lutheran | 29 | ||||||||
| St. Catherine (Minn.) | 30 | ||||||||
| UW-Superior | 31 | ||||||||
| Beloit | 32 |
South (NCAA DIII)
| Team | Preseason | Week #1 | Week #2 | Week #3 | Week #4 | Week #5 | Week #6 | Week #7 | FINAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emory | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Lynchburg | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Washington and Lee | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Christopher Newport | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Rhodes | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Southern Virginia | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 6 | ||
| Berry | 6 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 7 | ||
| Catholic (D.C.) | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 8 | ||
| Mary Washington | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 9 | ||
| Shenandoah | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |||
| Piedmont | 10 | 11 | |||||||
| Univ. of the South | 12 | ||||||||
| Meredith | 10 | 10 | 10 | 13 | |||||
| Covenant | 9 | 14 | |||||||
| Bridgewater (Va.) | 7 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 15 | ||||
| Eastern Mennonite | 9 | 9 | 16 | ||||||
| Oglethorpe | 17 | ||||||||
| Roanoke | 18 | ||||||||
| Mary Baldwin | 19 | ||||||||
| Sweet Briar | 20 | ||||||||
| Marymount (Va.) | 21 | ||||||||
| Hollins | 22 | ||||||||
| Pfeiffer | 23 | ||||||||
| Brevard (N.C.) | 24 |
West (NCAA DIII)
| Team | Preseason | Week #1 | Week #2 | Week #3 | Week #4 | Week #5 | Week #6 | Week #7 | FINAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Pomona-Pitzer | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Colorado College | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| UC Santa Cruz | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| George Fox | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 5 |
| Trinity (Texas) | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| Redlands (Calif.) | 10 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 7 |
| Caltech | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 8 | ||
| Lewis & Clark | 5 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 9 |
| Pacific (Ore.) | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 10 | |
| Whitman | 11 | ||||||||
| Chapman | 10 | 12 | |||||||
| Occidental | 8 | 13 | |||||||
| McMurry | 14 | ||||||||
| Pacific Lutheran | 15 | ||||||||
| Whitworth | 16 | ||||||||
| UMHB | 17 | ||||||||
| La Verne | 18 | ||||||||
| Puget Sound | 9 |