By Dennis Young, USTFCCCA
May 12, 2015
NEW ORLEANS – The final edition of the NCAA Division III track & field computer team rankings based on the descending order lists—next week’s will be based on the championship entries—look a lot like the first seven editions.
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(Note: today’s rankings were compiled on Monday morning before the early-week last chance meets)
Ninety miles north of La Crosse, the men and women of UW-Eau Claire were perched at No. 2 for the second straight week. (The Blugold men have been ranked second or third all season.
UW-La Crosse’s grip on the women’s top spot loosened very slightly, but they still have nearly double the rankings points of any other team. But the men’s team battle is shaping up to be as spicy as it was at indoor nationals, where Eau Claire slipped by La Crosse by two points. La Crosse’s lead over the UWEC men was the narrowest it has been all season–just 7.06 points.
For the third straight week, the UW-Whitewater men filled out the top three. The next four men’s teams shuffled around slightly: they were No. 4 Monmouth (Ill.), No. 5 Salisbury, No. 6 Augustana (Ill.), and No. 7 St. Olaf.
Joining them in the top ten for the first team in nearly a month was No. 8 North Central (Ill.). The Cardinals were ranked in the top four for the first three weeks of the season, before spending an unprecedented three straight weeks out of the top ten.
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Further down the men’s rankings, SUNY Oneonta rejoined the top ten after exactly one week away. The Red Dragons were ranked No. 10 for the fourth time in the last seven weeks.
No. 12 Wartburg, No. 19 UW-Platteville, and No. 25 Washington (Mo.) were the three teams to join the men’s top twenty-five this week.
WashU made the biggest leap of the week. The Bears clawed their way from No. 58 to No. 25 after Deko Ricketts (800), Josh Clark (1500), and Drew Padgett (5k) went for a whopping thirty-eight rankings points after posting nationally elite times at North Central’s Dr. Keeler Invitational.
In the women’s rankings:
Past La Crosse and Eau Claire, No. 3 MIT, No. 4 UW-Oshkosh, and No. 5 Illinois Wesleyan were the rest of the top five. All three of those schools have been ranked in the top five at least three times this year.
No. 6 WashU, No. 7 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, No. 8 Whitewater, No. 9 North Central, and No. 10 Baldwin Wallace all returned to the top ten for the second straight week.
Just one women’s team joined the rankings this week. That would be No. 25 Cornell College of Iowa, which moved up four slots. The two biggest moves came from national championship hosts St. Lawrence–up eight to No. 15 after Divya Biswal’s massive 5.80m long jump–and No. 12 Rhodes, also up eight slots. Rhodes and Cornell both made their moves thanks to other teams’ athletes sliding down the descending order lists, while their athletes held steady.
The DIII pre-championship rankings will be released Monday, May 18.
USTFCCCA NCAA Division III | |||||
Men’s Outdoor Track & Field National Team Computer Rankings (Top 25) | |||||
2015 Week #7 — May 12 | |||||
| next ranking: May 18 (pre-championships) | |||||
| Rank | Institution | Points | Conference | Head Coach (Yr) | Last Week |
| 1 | UW-La Crosse | 215.69 | WIAC | Josh Buchholtz (7th) | 1 |
| 2 | UW-Eau Claire | 185.14 | WIAC | Chip Schneider (13th) | 2 |
| 3 | UW-Whitewater | 122.50 | WIAC | Mike Johnson (6th) | 3 |
| 4 | Salisbury | 100.56 | CAC | Jim Jones (16th) | 17 |
| 5 | Augustana (Ill.) | 93.81 | CCIW | Paul Olsen (46th) | 5 |
| 6 | Monmouth (Ill.) | 90.74 | Midwest Conference | Roger Haynes (32nd) | 4 |
| 7 | St. Olaf | 89.84 | MIAC | Phil Lundin (7th) | 6 |
| 8 | UW-Stout | 76.28 | WIAC | Kyle Steiner (2nd) | 15 |
| 9 | Wabash | 71.91 | NCAC | Clyde Morgan (7th) | 7 |
| 10 | Brockport | 69.67 | SUNYAC | Ed Jaskulski (3rd) | 18 |
| 11 | Haverford | 67.08 | Centennial | Tom Donnelly (40th) | 13 |
| 12 | North Central (Ill.) | 66.74 | CCIW | Frank Gramarosso (5th) | 16 |
| 13 | Mount Union | 63.97 | OAC | Kevin Lucas (5th) | 8 |
| 14 | SUNY Oneonta | 63.34 | SUNYAC | Angelo Posillico (2nd) | 10 |
| 15 | Whitworth | 61.76 | Northwest Conference | Toby Schwarz (19th) | 9 |
| 16 | Central (Iowa) | 61.61 | IIAC | Joe Dunham (7th) | 12 |
| 17 | UW-Oshkosh | 58.49 | WIAC | Eamon McKenna (3rd) | 11 |
| 18 | Redlands | 58.38 | SCIAC | Mike Schmidt (8th) | 24 |
| 19 | Williams | 56.67 | NESCAC | David Thompson (2nd) | 14 |
| 20 | UW-Stevens Point | 55.94 | WIAC | Rick Witt (36th) | 38 |
| 21 | Messiah | 52.73 | Middle Atlantic | Dale Fogelsanger (21st) | 22 |
| 22 | Widener | 50.52 | Middle Atlantic | Vince Touey (28th) | 19 |
| 23 | UW-River Falls | 47.80 | WIAC | Matthew Cole (2nd) | 27 |
| 24 | Occidental | 46.03 | SCIAC | Robert Bartlett (10th) | 56 |
| 25 | SUNY Cortland | 45.23 | SUNYAC | Steve Patrick (8th) | 32 |
| dropped out: No. 22 Widener, No. 23 UW-River Falls, No. 24 Occidental | |||||
| View All Teams Beyond the Top 25 | |||||
| Men’s Conference Index Top 10 | |||
| Rank | Conference | Points | Top 25 Teams |
| 1 | WIAC | 795.88 | 7 |
| 2 | CCIW | 218.80 | 2 |
| 3 | SUNYAC | 207.65 | 3 |
| 4 | IIAC | 182.21 | 1 |
| 5 | SCIAC | 172.61 | 2 |
| 6 | Middle Atlantic | 158.13 | 2 |
| 7 | NESCAC | 148.78 | 1 |
| 8 | NCAC | 143.76 | 1 |
| 9 | CAC | 142.62 | 1 |
| 10 | Midwest Conference | 141.96 | 1 |
| Men’s Regional Index Leaders | |||
| Region | Institution | Points | Last Week |
| Atlantic | Brockport | 392.84 | 1 |
| Central | Central (Iowa) | 385.76 | 1 |
| Great Lakes | Wabash | 450.11 | 1 |
| Mideast | Widener | 435.61 | 1 |
| Midwest | UW-La Crosse | 488.26 | 1 |
| New England | MIT | 412.90 | 1 |
| South/Southeast | Christopher Newport | 415.50 | 1 |
| West | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 516.88 | 1 |
| View All Regional Rankings | |||
USTFCCCA NCAA Division III | |||||
Women’s Outdoor Track & Field National Team Computer Rankings (Top 25) | |||||
2015 Week #7 — May 12 | |||||
| next ranking: May 18 (pre-championships) | |||||
| Rank | Institution | Points | Conference | Head Coach (Yr) | Last Week |
| 1 | UW-La Crosse | 283.87 | WIAC | Pat Healy (24th) | 1 |
| 2 | UW-Eau Claire | 141.69 | WIAC | Chip Schneider (9th) | 3 |
| 3 | UW-Oshkosh | 117.25 | WIAC | Ben Dorsey (3rd) | 9 |
| 4 | MIT | 116.91 | NEWMAC | Halston Taylor (8th) | 5 |
| 5 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 107.27 | SCIAC | Kelly Beck (1st) | 2 |
| 6 | Washington (Mo.) | 105.55 | UAA | Jeff Stiles (14th) | 7 |
| 7 | Illinois Wesleyan | 102.89 | CCIW | Chris Schumacher (18th) | 4 |
| 8 | UW-Whitewater | 90.77 | WIAC | Mike Johnson (4th) | 18 |
| 9 | Baldwin Wallace | 85.29 | OAC | Bill Taraschke (30th) | 6 |
| 10 | North Central (Ill.) | 82.76 | CCIW | Kari Kluckhohn (12th) | 8 |
| 11 | Johns Hopkins | 74.65 | Centennial | Bobby Van Allen (16th) | 12 |
| 12 | UW-Stout | 68.58 | WIAC | Kyle Steiner (2nd) | 29 |
| 13 | Rowan | 65.44 | NJAC | Derick “Ringo” Adamson (8th) | 41 |
| 14 | George Fox | 63.97 | Northwest Conference | John Smith (9th) | 14 |
| 15 | Ohio Wesleyan | 62.07 | NCAC | Kris Boey (13th) | 22 |
| 16 | Cal Lutheran | 61.07 | SCIAC | Matt Lea (7th) | 13 |
| 17 | UW-Platteville | 58.30 | WIAC | Chris Rotzenberg (3rd) | 36 |
| 18 | UW-Stevens Point | 57.92 | WIAC | Brett Witt (1st) | 24 |
| 19 | Wartburg | 56.93 | IIAC | Marcus Newsom (17th) | 11 |
| 20 | Rhodes | 53.97 | SAA | Robert Shankman (24th) | 10 |
| 21 | Aurora | 51.92 | NACC | Ryan Chapman (7th) | 25 |
| 22 | SUNY Oneonta | 49.49 | SUNYAC | Angelo Posillico (2nd) | 17 |
| 23 | St. Lawrence | 48.57 | Liberty League | Kate Curran (7th) | 21 |
| 24 | Lehman | 46.98 | CUNYAC | Pete Charles (3rd) | 16 |
| 25 | Williams | 46.69 | NESCAC | Nate Hoey (2nd) | 38 |
| dropped out: No. 22 SUNY Oneonta | |||||
| View All Teams Beyond the Top 25 | |||||
| Women’s Conference Index Top 10 | |||
| Rank | Conference | Points | Top 25 Teams |
| 1 | WIAC | 823.42 | 7 |
| 2 | SCIAC | 209.59 | 2 |
| 3 | CCIW | 190.41 | 2 |
| 4 | NEWMAC | 160.86 | 1 |
| 5 | NESCAC | 159.97 | 1 |
| 6 | Centennial | 150.71 | 1 |
| 7 | Northwest Conference | 147.55 | 1 |
| 8 | SUNYAC | 137.74 | 1 |
| 9 | MIAC | 136.00 | |
| 10 | IIAC | 133.86 | 1 |
| Women’s Regional Index Leaders | |||
| Region | Institution | Points | Last Week |
| Atlantic | Ithaca | 274.78 | 1 |
| Central | Wartburg | 356.32 | 1 |
| Great Lakes | Calvin | 377.21 | 2 |
| Mideast | Johns Hopkins | 338.57 | 1 |
| Midwest | UW-La Crosse | 553.38 | 1 |
| New England | MIT | 533.30 | 1 |
| South/Southeast | Emory | 376.86 | 1 |
| West | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 673.32 | 1 |
| View All Regional Rankings | |||
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