Wittenberg Holds Onto #1 Position In AVCA Division III Rankings

  0 Carly DeMarque | October 25th, 2017 | College - Women's Indoor, NCAA D3, News, Rankings

Wittenberg continues to hold on to the #1 position in the AVCA Division III rankings while claiming 47 of the first-place votes. Wittenberg is just one of two teams in the top-25 that are still unbeaten on the year as they are 18-0 while Johnson & Wales holds a 26-0 record and moves up to #11 from #14.

The top-five stayed the same in the polls while Emory moved up to #8 from #10 and Wisconsin Whitewater to #7 from #9. Entering the top-10 this week is Millikin from #12 to #10.

Entering the top-25 are Berry at #24 while Pacific Lutheran takes over the #25 spot. MIT fell back to #22 from #15 along with Juniata from #19 to #21. Stevenson made a jump in the polls from #25 to #19.

RANK SCHOOL POINTS RECORD PREVIOUS WEEK
1 Wittenberg (47) 1655 18-0 1
2 Colorado College (20) 1626 26-1 2
3 Southwestern (TX) 1481 25-4 3
4 Calvin 1421 21-3 4
5 Trinity (TX) 1376 23-6 5
6 Carnegie Mellon 1350 25-1 6
7 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 1263 20-5 8
8 Emory 1097 21-5 10
9 Wisconsin-Whitewater 977 20-4 7
10 Millikin 957 22-6 12
11 Johnson & Wales (RI) 926 26-0 14
12 Washington-St. Louis 853 19-6 13
13 Illinois Wesleyan 771 18-6 18
14 Northwestern (MN) 732 27-6 9
15 Chicago 701 19-5 17
16 Gustavus Adolphus 616 21-5 11
17 Johns Hopkins 543 20-3 16
18 St. Thomas (MN) 458 22-5 20
19 Stevenson 447 27-1 25
20 Ohio Northern 434 23-4 21
21 Juniata 393 19-7 19
22 MIT 382 24-2 15
23 Christopher Newport 337 22-3 23
24 Berry 139 23-4 NR
25 Pacific Lutheran 126 17-3 NR

Others receiving votes and listed on two or more ballots: Randolph-Macon 90; La Verne 81; Tufts 79; Texas-Dallas 59; Wisconsin-Stevens Point 50; Otterbein 45; Iowa Wesleyan 34; Cornell (IA) 31; Ithaca 29; Mary Hardin-Baylor 28; Wesleyan (CT) 26; Scranton 25; Wisconsin-La Crosse 25; Aurora 20; Concordia (WI) 15; Carthage 13; Mount Union 10; Vassar 5; Wartburg 5

Seven teams mentioned on only one ballot for a total of 44 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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