North Carolina Earns Top Spot in IWLCA Media/Coaches Preseason Poll

Three weeks after earning the No. 1 spot in the Nike/USA Lacrosse Division I Women's Preseason Top 20, defending champion North Carolina earned the top rank in the ILWomen/IWLCA Division I poll, which was released Monday morning.

The preseason poll saw the Tar Heels earn 22 first-place votes. Maryland, which placed second, earned two first-place votes, and third-place Boston College earned three first-place votes. the ILWomen/IWLCA Division I poll is compiled through the voting of coaches and members of the media. 

ILWOMEN/IWLCA
DIVISION I POLL

1. North Carolina, 666 (22 FPV)
2. Maryland, 634 (2)
3. Boston College, 613 (3)
4. Northwestern, 599
5. Syracuse, 574
6. Stony Brook, 536
7. Florida, 500
8. Rutgers. 439
9. Denver, 426
10. Loyola, 412
11. Duke, 402
12. James Madison, 361
13. Virginia, 334
14. Stanford, 319
15. Princeton, 302
16. Notre Dame, 300
17. Michigan, 249
18. USC, 234
19. Jacksonville, 198
20. Johns Hopkins, 103
21. Yale, 98
22. Richmond, 88
23. UMass, 69
24. UConn, 53
25. Colorado, 40

Receiving votes: Arizona State, Penn State, Ohio State, Temple, Navy

MIDDLEBURY TOPS DIVISION III

Middlebury earned 36 first-place votes to top the ILWomen/IWLCA Division III poll, while Tufts earned the last first-place vote and checks in at No. 2.

ILWOMEN/IWLCA
DIVISION II POLL

1. Middlebury, 924 (36)
2. Tufts, 884 (1)
3. TCNJ, 835
4. Salisbury, 784
5. Gettysburg, 776
6. Franklin & Marshall, 748
7. Colby, 683
8. Washington and Lee, 654
9. William Smith, 641
10. Ithaca, 593
11. Wesleyan, 579
12. York, 501
13. Cortland, 461
14. St. Lawrence, 378
15. Bowdoin, 370
16. Messiah, 320
17. Chicago, 315
18. Catholic, 288
19. Denison, 247
20. Hamilton, 227
21. Trinity, 188
22. Pomona-Pitzer, 157
23. Geneseo, 123
24. Haverford, 87
25. Roanoke, 62

Receiving votes: Amherst, St. John Fisher, Colorado College, Rhodes, Christopher Newport