We have a tie.
The Women’s Golf Coaches Association released its second Mizuno WGCA Coaches Poll of the 2022-23 season and there are two teams knotted up at the top in Division III.
Emory, which was No. 1 in the preseason poll released three weeks ago, received eight first-place votes this time around.
Redlands collected the four remaining first-place votes and jumped six spots.
Each team received 287 total points, which ties them for No. 1 in the poll.
George Fox drops one spot to No. 3.
There’s another tie in the poll at No. 4 between Carnegie Mellon and Methodist.
| Rank | University (First-place votes) | Points |
| T1 | Emory (8) | 287 |
| T1 | Redlands (4) | 287 |
| 3 | George Fox | 241 |
| T4 | Carnegie Mellon | 230 |
| T4 | Methodist | 230 |
| 6 | Washington and Lee | 227 |
| 7 | Washington University in St. Louis | 224 |
| 8 | Texas at Dallas | 217 |
| T9 | Amherst College | 172 |
| T9 | Centre College | 172 |
| 11 | Pomona-Pitzer | 170 |
| T12 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 160 |
| T12 | Williams College | 160 |
| 14 | New York University | 133 |
| 15 | Illinois Wesleyan | 126 |
| 16 | Wisconsin Whitewater | 90 |
| 17 | Rhodes College | 82 |
| 18 | St. Catherine | 75 |
| 19 | Carleton College | 74 |
| 20 | Bethel | 73 |
| 21 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 59 |
| 22 | Grinnell College | 58 |
| 23 | Denison | 45 |
| T24 | Hamilton College | 36 |
| T24 | Middlebury College | 36 |
| Others receiving votes: California Santa Cruz (33); Carthage College (29); Christopher Newport (29); Trinity (Texas) (25); Oglethorpe (24); Lynchburg (23); Central College (15); Gustavus Adolphus College (13); Sewanee: The University of the South (12); California Lutheran (10); Berry College (7); Wisconsin-La Crosse (5); Ohio Northern (4); Adrian College (3); York College of Pennsylvania (2); Rose Hulman Institute of Technology (1); Wellesley 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.
