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Emory is No. 1 team

Emory is No. 1 team

Emory women’s golf ended last season on top of Div. III.

The Eagles will start the new season in that same spot.

Emory is the unanimous No. 1 team to open the new season in the 2022-23 Mizuno WGCA Div. III preseason coaches poll. The Eagles collected all 11 first-place votes.

George Fox check in at No. 2 with Methodist coming in at No. 3.

Carnegie Mellon and Williams College will start at No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, the poll.

Rank University (First-place votes) Points
1 Emory (11) 275
2 George Fox 250
3 Methodist 245
4 Carnegie Mellon 236
5 Williams College 226
6 Pomona-Pitzer 208
7 University of Redlands 207
8 New York University 193
9 Centre College 177
10 Washington University in St. Louis 169
11 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 157
12 Amherst College 154
13 Washington and Lee 139
14 Illinois Wesleyan 126
15 Denison 106
16 Rhodes College 102
17 St. Catherine 93
18 Mary Hardin-Baylor 88
19 Trinity (Texas) 66
20 Texas at Dallas 51
21 Berry College 48
T22 Gustavus Adolphus College 32
T22 Middlebury College 32
T22 Sewanee: The University of the South 32
25 UC-Santa Cruz 23
Others receiving votes: Carthage College (22); Wellesley College (18); Bethel (17); Chapman  (15); Carleton College (10); California Lutheran (8); Wisconsin-Whitewater (8); College of Saint Benedict (7); Christopher Newport (6); Grinnell College (6); Hamilton College (6); York College of Pennsylvania (6); Oglethorpe (5); Randolph-Macon College (3); DePauw (2); Hope College (1)

About the Women’s Golf Coaches Association

The Women’s Golf Coaches Association, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women’s collegiate golf coaches. The WGCA was formed to encourage the playing of college golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition. Today, the WGCA represents over 650 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes they represent.

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