Top-Five Shake Ups In This Weeks AVCA Division III Rankings

  0 Carly DeMarque | October 20th, 2017 | College - Women's Indoor, NCAA D3, News, Rankings

Wittenberg retains their #1 rankings in this week’s AVCA Division III rankings with 55 first-place votes ahead of Colorado College who has 12 first-place nods. Southwestern (TX) moved up two spots this week into the #3 position while Calvin worked their way up into the top-five at #4. Trinity (TX) fell back from #3 into the #5 position.

Carnegie-Mellon jumped ahead to the #6 ranking this week from the #10 position. Wisconsin-Whitewater also moved up to #7 from #9.

Johnson & Wales remain undefeated along with Wittenberg, moving up to #14 from #16 in this week’s poll.

Falling back this week is Emory who held the #4 spot in last weeks rankings but dropped back to #10. Illinois Wesleyan and Chicago also fell back to #18 and #17 after holding the #12 and #13 spots, respectively.

Washington-St. Louis moved up seven positions to #20 in this week’s rankings.

RANK SCHOOL POINTS RECORD PREVIOUS RANKING
1 Wittenberg (55) 1663 16-0 1
2 Colorado College (12) 1617 22-1 2
3 Southwestern (TX) 1491 22-3 5
4 Calvin 1389 19-3 6
5 Trinity (TX) 1377 21-4 3
6 Carnegie-Mellon 1249 22-1 10
7 Wisconsin-Whitewater 1214 18-3 9
8 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 1197 17-5 8
9 Northwestern (MN) 1087 26-4 7
10 Emory 1046 19-5 4
11 Gustavus Adolphus 970 20-3 11
12 Millikin 807 20-6 14
13 Washington-St. Louis 717 18-6 20
14 Johnson & Wales (RI) 697 23-0 16
15 MIT 687 21-1 15
16 Johns Hopkins 676 19-2 18
17 Chicago 626 19-5 13
18 Illinois Wesleyan 519 14-6 12
19 Juniata 416 17-6 17
20 St. Thomas (MN) 374 20-5 19
21 Ohio Northern 349 21-4 21
22 Texas-Dallas 296 18-4 22
23 Christopher Newport 281 19-3 23
24 La Verne 201 16-5 24
25 Stevenson 178 23-1 25

Others receiving votes and listed on two or more ballots: Berry 140; Pacific Lutheran 85; Aurora 51; Wisconsin-Stevens Point 42; Cornell (Iowa) 39; Randolph-Macon 38; Scranton 35; Mary Hardin-Baylor 30; Otterbein 30; Wesleyan (Conn.) 30; Ithaca 16; Hope 11; Vassar 11; Carthage 10; Muskingum 9; Wisconsin-La Crosse 5; Wisconsin-Eau Claire 4; Cal Lutheran 3; Mount Union 3; Tufts 2

Ten teams mentioned on only one ballot for a total of 56 combined points.

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Carly DeMarque has been involved with competitive volleyball for the majority of her life, playing competitively at the club and collegiate level for 15 years and coaching club for five. Now a retired Division I volleyball athlete out of McNeese State University, she continues her volleyball enthusiasm by stepping back into …

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