Men's Swimming & Diving moves up to No. 11 in final CSCAA Division III poll
By: Tim Glon
ADA — The Ohio Northern men's swimming & diving team moved up five more spots to No. 11 in the final regular season College Swimming Coaches Association of America Division III poll.
The Polar Bears ended their regular season with a 12-1 overall and won their sixth consecutive the Ohio Athletic Conference regular season title with a 5-0 mark.
The No. 11 ranking is the best-ever for the ONU Men's Swimming & Diving program in its history.
ONU was ranked No. 22 in the first poll and was No. 16 in the second poll in December.
Kenyon is ranked No. 1, Denison is No. 2 and Emory (Ga.) is No. 3.
Northern as won seven consecutive OAC Championships titles under eighth-year head coach Peggy Ewald and will be ginning for its eighth straight title at the OAC Championships Feb. 16-18 at the University of Akron's Ocasek Nataorium.
CSCAA Men's Top 25 - Final
Feb. 1, 2012
| # | School (1st votes) | Last Week |
| 1 | Kenyon | 1 |
| 2 | Denison | 2 |
| 3 | Emory (Ga.) | 3 |
| 4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4 |
| 5 | Johns Hopkins (Md.) | 5 |
| 6 | New Jersey | 7 |
| 7 | Amherst (Mass.) | 10 |
| 8 | Stevens (N.Y.) | 6 |
| 9 | Williams (Mass.) | 8 |
| 10 | DePauw (Ind.) | 13 |
| 11 | Ohio Northern | 16 |
| 12 | Chicago (Ill.) | 9 |
| 13 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Calif.) | 14 |
| 14 | Case Western Reserve | 12 |
| 15 | Washington (Mo.) | 15 |
| 16 | Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) | 17 |
| 17 | Wisconsin-Stevens Point | 11 |
| 18 | Hartwick (N.Y.) | 18 |
| 19 | Washington & Lee (Va.) | 19 |
| 20 | New York U. | 20 |
| 21 | Rochester (N.Y.) | 21 |
| 22 | Connecticut College | 25 |
| 23 | Coast Guard (Conn.) | 23 |
| 24 | Whitworth (Wash.) | NR |
| 25 | Keene State (N.J.) | 24 |
Others receiving votes: Gettysburg (Pa.), Ithaca (N.Y.), Grove City (Pa.), Kalamazoo (Mich.)