KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Cascade Collegiate Conference saw three teams ranked on the NAIA 2022 Women’s Cross Country Preseason Coaches’ Top 25 Poll, released Thursday by the national office.
The College of Idaho leads the trio of CCC teams, sitting at No. 7 on the preseason poll. Southern Oregon University follows at No. 16, while Lewis-Clark State College rounds out the CCC teams at No. 23.
2022 NAIA Women’s Cross Country Coaches’ Top 25 Poll – Preseason
| RANK |
LAST TIME |
SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] |
POINTS |
| 1 |
1 |
Milligan (Tenn.) |
551 |
| 2 |
2 |
St. Francis (Ill.) |
535 |
| 3 |
3 |
Cornerstone (Mich.) |
530 |
| 4 |
4 |
Taylor (Ind.) |
510 |
| 5 |
7 |
Saint Mary (Kan.) |
491 |
| 6 |
6 |
The Master's (Calif.) |
462 |
| 7 |
5 |
College of Idaho |
445 |
| 8 |
8 |
Dordt (Iowa) |
444 |
| 9 |
15 |
Grace (Ind.) |
410 |
| 10 |
9 |
Indiana Wesleyan |
382 |
| 11 |
10 |
Aquinas (Mich.) |
373 |
| 12 |
17 |
Westmont (Calif.) |
368 |
| 13 |
14 |
Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) |
340 |
| 14 |
16 |
Carroll (Mont.) |
325 |
| 15 |
12 |
Oklahoma City |
312 |
| 16 |
18 |
Southern Oregon |
305 |
| 17 |
22 |
Montreat (N.C.) |
257 |
| 18 |
20 |
Indiana Tech |
248 |
| 18 |
19 |
Hastings (Neb.) |
248 |
| 20 |
25 |
Saint Francis (Ind.) |
218 |
| 21 |
23 |
Huntington (Ind.) |
187 |
| 22 |
13 |
Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) |
175 |
| 23 |
RV |
Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) |
166 |
| 24 |
RV |
Montana Tech |
161 |
| 25 |
RV |
Benedictine (Kan.) |
111 |
Receiving Votes: Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 99, Concordia (Neb.) 87, Cumberlands (Ky.) 63, Marian (Ind.) 55, Dalton State (Ga.) 31, Vanguard (Calif.) 30, William Woods (Mo.) 28, SCAD Savannah (Ga.) 15, Goshen (Ind.) 5, Campbellsville (Ky.) 4, Texas Wesleyan 3
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.”