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Middlebury finished 23-0 and won its third national title since 2019.

Middlebury Leads Wire-to-Wire in Nike/USA Lacrosse D-III Women's Top 20

June 8, 2023
Laurel Pfahler
Keith Lucas

Middlebury completed a perfect season by capturing the Division III women’s national championship, and the Panthers ran the table in the Nike/USA Lacrosse Top 20, too, finishing 2023 at No. 1.

The Panthers have won each of the last three NCAA tournament they’ve competed in. Salisbury won the 2021 title while Middlebury did not compete because of COVID-19 restrictions. There was no tournament in 2020 because of the pandemic.

Denison, which made a surprising run in the postseason, moved into the Top 20 at No. 18 despite a rough regular season that led an 11-11 finish, and Kenyon also returned at No. 19. Amherst, which did not make the tournament field after ending its season in the first round of the NESCAC tournament, and Geneseo, both dropped out of the Top 20.

Nike/USA Lacrosse Rankings
Division I Men | Division I Women
Division II Men | Division II Women
Division III Men | Division III Women

NIKE/USA LACROSSE
DIVISION III WOMEN’S TOP 20

 

Final
W/L
Prev

1

Middlebury

23-0

1

2

Gettysburg

19-5

9

3

William Smith

21-1

2

4

Franklin & Marshall

18-5

8

5

Washington and Lee

19-2

3

6

Tufts

16-5

5

7

York

18-4

10

8

Salisbury

15-4

4

9

Colby

14-6

12

10

TCNJ

16-4

6

11

Waesleyan

15-4

7

12

Messiah

16-4

11

13

St. John Fisher

17-3

13

14

Trinity (Conn.)

13-6

14

15

Roanoke

16-4

15

16

Pomona-Pitzer

21-2

17

17

Stevens

18-3

19

18

Denison

11-11

NR

19

Kenyon

18-2

NR

20

Chicago

16-3

18

Also considered (alphabetical order): Amherst, Christopher Newport, Cortland, Geneseo, Haverford, Ithaca, MIT, Williams