Men's Cross Country moves up to No. 19 in second weekly USTFCCCA Division III poll
By Tim Glon
| USTFCCCA poll |
ADA – The Ohio Northern men's cross country team moved up four spots to No. 19 in the second weekly United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division III poll on Wednesday.
The Polar Bears (52-1 overall) received 131 points in the voting after winning the 22-team Rochester (N.Y.) Invitational last week.
ONU was ranked No. 23 with 103 points in the first weekly poll.
North Central (Ill.) remains ranked first with 280 points and all eight first place votes, St. Olaf (Minn.) is second with 269 points and Amherst (Mass.) is third with 267 points.
Ohio Northern is idle this weekend and will compete again on Oct. 2 at the All-Ohio Championships at Cedarville.
USTFCCCA Division III Poll - Week 2
Sept. 23, 2015
Total | Last | ||
Rank | School (1st Place Votes) | Points | Week |
1. | North Central (Ill.) (8) |
280 | 1 |
2. | St. Olaf (Minn.) | 269 | 2 |
3. | Amherst (Mass.) |
267 | 3 |
4. | Washington (Mo.) | 256 | 7 |
5. | Wisconsin-Eau Claire | 244 | 4 |
6. | St. Lawrence (N.Y.) | 238 | 6 |
MIT | 238 | 5 | |
8. | Williams (Mass.) |
220 | 8 |
9. | Wisconsin-LaCrosse | 216 | 9 |
10. | Wabash (Ind.) | 206 | 12 |
11. | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Calif.) |
205 | 10 |
12. | Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) | 187 | 13 |
13. | Pomona-Pitzer (Calif.) | 182 | 14 |
Wisconsin-Oshkosh | 182 | 15 | |
15. | Calvin (Mich.) | 164 | 19 |
16. | Geneseo State (N.Y.) | 154 | 18 |
17. | Haverford (Conn.) | 152 | 21 |
18. | Bates (Maine) | 1498 | 32 |
19. | Ohio Northern | 131 | 23 |
20. | Johns Hopkins (Md.) |
125 | 20 |
21. | Tufts (Conn.) | 123 | 11 |
22. | Loras (Iowa) | 116 | 27 |
23. | Dickenson (Pa.) | 107 | 22 |
24. | Colby (Maine) | 99 | 17 |
25. |
Wisconsin-Platteville | 84 | 26 |
26. | Middlebury (Vt.) | 79 | 24 |
27. | Allegheny (Pa.) | 67 | 31 |
28. | Saint Thomas (Minn.) | 65 | RV |
29. | RPI (N.Y.) | 52 | 28 |
30. | Central (Iowa) | 49 | 30 |
31. | Widener (Pa.) | 35 | 29 |
32. | Carleton (Wis.) | 23 | 33 |
Emory (Ga.) | 23 | 16 | |
34. | Chicago (Ill.) | 21 | 34 |
35. | Messiah (Pa.) |
19 | RV |
Others Receiving Votes: New York U. 12.