Milligan, Montreat Continue to Occupy Top 10 Spots; SCAD Atlanta Earns No. 25 Placement
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Three Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) teams received votes in the NAIA Women's Cross Country Coaches' Top 25 Poll, the national organization announced on Thursday.
Milligan sits at No. 1 for the second week in a row with 550 voting points and 14 first-place votes.
Meanwhile, Montreat checks in at No. 7 with 446 voting points, and SCAD Atlanta is 25th with 116 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 WEEK | SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | POINTS |
| 1 | 1 | Milligan (Tenn.) [14] | 550 |
| 2 | 4 | Taylor (Ind.) [5] | 531 |
| 3 | 2 | Saint Mary (Kan.) [1] | 529 |
| 4 | 3 | The Master's (Calif.) | 520 |
| 5 | 5 | Cumberlands (Ky.) | 491 |
| 6 | 6 | College of Idaho | 471 |
| 7 | 7 | Montreat (N.C.) | 446 |
| 8 | 8 | Dordt (Iowa) | 428 |
| 9 | 9 | Southern Oregon | 401 |
| 10 | 11 | Grace (Ind.) | 390 |
| 11 | 10 | St. Francis (Ill.) | 382 |
| 12 | 13 | SCAD Savanah (Ga.) | 344 |
| 13 | 12 | Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) | 343 |
| 14 | 15 | Indiana Wesleyan | 329 |
| 15 | 14 | Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | 309 |
| 16 | 17 | Cornerstone (Mich.) | 286 |
| 17 | 16 | Huntington (Ind.) | 270 |
| 18 | 18 | Kansas Wesleyan | 250 |
| 19 | 19 | Carroll (Mont.) | 228 |
| 20 | 20 | Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) | 213 |
| 21 | 22 | Mount Mercy (Iowa) | 169 |
| 22 | 21 | Aquinas (Mich.) | 149 |
| 23 | RV | Goshen (Ind.) | 143 |
| 23 | RV | Oklahoma City | 143 |
| 25 | 24 | SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) | 116 |
Receiving Votes: Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 108, Marian (Ind.) 96, Concordia (Neb.) 49, Benedictine (Kan.) 39, Montana Tech 35, College of Saint Mary (Neb.) 32, William Woods (Mo.) 20, Doane (Neb.) 18, Evangel (Mo.) 14, Campbellsville (Ky.) 14, Eastern Oregon 13, UC Merced (Calif.) 9, Cumberland (Tenn.) 3, Missouri Baptist 2