Stanford sits atop Mizuno WGCA Coaches Poll for Div. I women's golf to open spring season
Stanford sits atop Mizuno WGCA Coaches Poll for Div. I women's golf to open spring season
Stanford, Anderson, Emory and Keiser are all starting the women's golf spring season at the top.
In the latest Women's Golf Coaches Association Mizuno WGCA Coaches Polls, those are the No. 1-ranked teams in the first polls of the spring 2025 season.
Mizuno WGCA Div. I Coaches Poll
Rank University (First Place Votes) Points 1 Stanford (22) 622 2 Arkansas (3) 593 3 Oregon 567 4 USC 554 5 South Carolina 528 6 Florida State 504 7 Texas 477 8 Arizona State 450 9 Wake Forest 425 10 Northwestern 397 11 Vanderbilt 355 12 Virginia 328 13 TCU 308 14 Ole Miss 291 15 Mississippi State 288 16 Arizona 234 17 Texas A&M 221 18 North Carolina 210 19 Duke 189 20 Auburn 164 21 Kansas 103 22 Michigan State 85 23 LSU 78 24 Houston 75 25 Ohio State 24 Others receiving votes: UCLA (14); Oklahoma State (10); UNLV (10); Baylor (9); Florida (8); Kansas State (3); Georgia Southern (1)
Mizuno WGCA Div. II Coaches Poll
Rank University (First Place Votes) Points 1 Anderson (17) 473 2 Wingate (2) 453 3 Flagler College 426 T4 Dallas Baptist 412 T4 Findlay 412 6 Lynn 371 7 Grand Valley State 354 8 St. Mary's (Texas) 334 9 California State San Marcos 326 10 Lee 316 11 North Georgia 264 12 West Texas A&M 253 13 Tampa 243 14 Texas at Tyler 222 15 Saint Leo 186 16 Rollins College 184 17 Nova Southeastern 164 18 Central Missouri 157 19 Rogers State 153 20 Palm Beach Atlantic 109 21 Missouri-St. Louis 99 22 Simon Fraser 63 23 Lander 51 24 California State Los Angeles 43 25 West Florida 41 Others receiving votes: Barry (17); Henderson State (12); Ashland (9); Lincoln Memorial (7); California State East Bay (6); Harding (5); Tiffin (4); Carson-Newman (3); Florida Southern College (1); Midwestern State (1); Nebraska at Kearney (1)
Mizuno WGCA Div. III Coaches Poll
Rank University (First Place Votes) Points 1 Emory (14) 515 2 Carnegie Mellon (4) 504 3 Washington University (3) 479 4 Wellesley College 429 5 Williams College 428 6 George Fox 418 7 Pomona-Pitzer 411 8 St. Catherine 356 9 New York University 342 10 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 339 11 Amherst College 312 12 Centre College 251 13 Hamilton College 233 14 Babson College 229 15 Washington and Lee 220 16 Illinois Wesleyan 205 17 Randolph-Macon College 196 18 Denison 176 19 Trinity (Texas) 132 20 Redlands 114 21 Bowdoin College 99 22 Christopher Newport 96 23 Middlebury College 75 T24 Grinnell College 67 T24 Methodist 67 Others receiving votes: Carleton College (43); Rhodes College (30); Mary Hardin-Baylor (18); California Lutheran (17); Wesleyan (16); Bethel (6); Trine (2)
Mizuno WGCA NAIA Coaches Poll
Rank University (First Place Votes) Points 1 Keiser (10) 100 2 SCAD Savannah 90 3 Lindsey Wilson College 76 4 Marian 74 5 Dalton State College 59 6 Texas Wesleyan 50 7 SCAD Atlanta 39 8 Milligan 28 9 Oklahoma City 24 10 William Carey 7 Others receiving votes: Truett McConnell (3)
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 750 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes they represent.
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