Emory is the top-ranked team in 2022-23 Mizuno WGCA Div. III preseason coaches poll

September 2, 2022

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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.