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Redlands breaks tie for No. 1 spot

Sewanee

Redlands has broken a tie for the top spot in the third Mizuno WGCA Coaches Div. III Poll in women’s college golf.

Redlands and Emory shared top billing last time around.

This time, Redlands, with eight first-place votes, is alone at No. 1.

Washington University in St. Louis received two first-place votes and jumped five spots to No. 2.

George Fox also got a first-place vote and checks in at No. 3. Emory slid back to No. 4 while also garnering a first-place vote.

Centre College moves up five spots to round out the top five.

Rank University (First-place votes) Points
1 Redlands (8) 286
2 Washington University in St. Louis (2) 266
3 George Fox (1) 258
4 Emory (1) 253
5 Centre College 251
6 Carnegie Mellon 221
7 Washington and Lee 216
8 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 214
9 Methodist University 201
10 Texas at Dallas 187
11 Illinois Wesleyan 165
12 Williams College 148
13 St. Catherine 146
14 Amherst College 139
15 Carleton College 136
16 NYU 114
17 Wisconsin Whitewater 101
18 Bethel 99
19 Pomona-Pitzer 88
20 Denison 72
21 Mary Hardin-Baylor 61
22 Grinnell College 49
T23 California Lutheran 32
T23 Otterbein 32
25 Trinity (Texas) 28
Others Receiving Votes: Rhodes College (25); Middlebury College (22); Sewanee: The University of the South (20); Christopher Newport (14); Hamilton College (12); Central College (10); Carthage College (8); UC-Santa Cruz (8); Wellesley College (6); Gustavus Adolphus College (5); Saint Mary’s College (IN) (4); Adrian College (1); Concordia Texas (1); Macalester 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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