KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Two of the Cascade Collegiate Conference’s three ranked teams held their spots on the latest NAIA 2022 Women’s Cross Country Coaches’ Top 25 Poll, released Thursday by the national office.
The College of Idaho held onto its No. 6 ranking, while Southern Oregon University remained at No. 10. Lewis-Clark State College slipped one spot to No. 22 on the poll.
2022 NAIA Women’s Cross Country Coaches’ Top 25 Poll – Oct. 13, 2022
| RANK |
LAST TIME |
SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] |
POINTS |
| 1 |
1 |
Milligan (Tenn.) [11] |
582 |
| 2 |
2 |
Taylor (Ind.) [10] |
581 |
| 3 |
3 |
Saint Mary (Kan.) |
550 |
| 4 |
4 |
St. Francis (Ill.) |
530 |
| 5 |
5 |
The Master's (Calif.) |
520 |
| 6 |
6 |
College of Idaho |
496 |
| 7 |
7 |
Cornerstone (Mich.) |
473 |
| 8 |
9 |
Dordt (Iowa) |
455 |
| 9 |
8 |
Grace (Ind.) |
443 |
| 10 |
10 |
Southern Oregon |
410 |
| 11 |
11 |
Indiana Wesleyan |
400 |
| 12 |
12 |
Westmont (Calif.) |
385 |
| 13 |
13 |
Benedictine (Kan.) |
367 |
| 14 |
14 |
Aquinas (Mich.) |
339 |
| 15 |
15 |
Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) |
315 |
| 16 |
17 |
William Carey (Miss.) |
312 |
| 17 |
16 |
Huntington (Ind.) |
286 |
| 18 |
18 |
Montreat (N.C.) |
262 |
| 19 |
19 |
Carroll (Mont.) |
250 |
| 20 |
20 |
Cumberlands (Ky.) |
232 |
| 21 |
22 |
Concordia (Neb.) |
204 |
| 22 |
21 |
Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) |
191 |
| 23 |
23 |
Goshen (Ind.) |
164 |
| 24 |
24 |
Indiana Tech |
143 |
| 25 |
NR |
Rocky Mountain (Mont.) |
110 |
Dropped from the Poll: Oklahoma City
Receiving Votes: SCAD Savannah (Ga.) 90, Oklahoma City 89, William Woods (Mo.) 72, Northwestern (Iowa) 53, Arizona Christian 37, Marian (Ind.) 36, Campbellsville (Ky.) 25, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) 16, Southeastern (Fla.) 8, Missouri Baptist 4, Montana Tech 4
Poll Methodology
• The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences.
• Each conference is represented by one rater.
• The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each voter ranks the best teams. A team receives 30 points for each first-place vote, 29 for second-place and so on through the list.
• The highest and lowest ranking for each team (a non-rating is considered a low rating) is removed and the team’s ranking will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that the teams appear on.
• Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes.”