Three AAC Teams Land in NAIA Women's Golf Top 20
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Three Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) teams are ranked in the NAIA Women's Golf Coaches' Top 25 Poll, the national organization announced on Thursday.
In all, four teams received votes.
SCAD Atlanta leads the way, checking in at No. 12 with 284 voting points.
Milligan is next in line at No. 15 with 247 voting points, while Truett McConnell garnered 213 voting points to land 17th.
Pikeville missed out on the top 25 as it collected 41 voting points.
Poll Methodology
• The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences.
• Each conference is represented by one rater.
• The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each voter ranks the best teams. A team receives 30 points for each first-place vote, 29 for second-place and so on through the list.
• The highest and lowest ranking for each team (a non-rating is considered a low rating) is removed and the team's ranking will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that the teams appear on.
• Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered "receiving votes."
| RANK | LAST TIME | INSTITUTION [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | FINAL POINTS |
| 1 | 2 | Keiser (Fla.) [15] | 450 |
| 2 | 1 | British Columbia | 428 |
| 3 | 3 | Oklahoma City | 424 |
| 4 | 4 | SCAD Savannah (Ga.) | 407 |
| 5 | 5 | Texas Wesleyan | 368 |
| 6 | 6 | William Carey (Miss.) | 353 |
| 7 | 8 | Marian (Ind.) | 343 |
| 8 | 9 | Southeastern (Fla.) | 328 |
| 9 | 7 | Dalton State (Ga.) | 314 |
| 10 | 13 | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | 293 |
| 11 | 14 | Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) | 286 |
| 12 | 11 | SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) | 284 |
| 13 | 17 | Indiana Wesleyan | 271 |
| 14 | 16 | Cumberlands (Ky.) | 255 |
| 15 | 18 | Milligan (Tenn.) | 247 |
| 16 | 12 | Loyola (La.) | 231 |
| 17 | 10 | Truett McConnell (Ga.) | 213 |
| 18 | 15 | OUAZ (Ariz.) | 193 |
| 19 | 19 | Taylor (Ind.) | 192 |
| 20 | RV | Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | 122 |
| 21 | 20 | Oregon Tech | 118 |
| 22 | 22 | Rocky Mountain (Mont.) | 110 |
| 23 | RV | Victoria (B.C.) | 97 |
| 24 | 24 | Coastal Georgia | 80 |
| 25 | RV | Cumberland (Tenn.) | 67 |
| 25 | RV | Morningside (Iowa) | 67 |
Receiving Votes: Hope International (Calif.) 66, Bethel (Ind.) 65, Northwest Ohio 56, Wayland Baptist (Texas) 54, Pikeville (Ky.) 41, Tennessee Southern 35, William Penn (Iowa) 33, Mount Mercy (Iowa) 30, Bethel (Tenn.) 16, Columbia (Mo.) 14, IU East (Ind.) 10, Huntington (Ind.) 6, St. Ambrose (Iowa) 5