Men's Cross Country ranked No. 23 in first weekly USTFCCCA poll

September 16, 2015

By Tim Glon

ADA – The Ohio Northern men's cross country team is ranked No. 23 nationally in the first weekly United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division III poll.

The Polar Bears (31-1 overall) received 103 points in the voting after posting a second place finish at the 29-team Calvin (Mich.) Knight Invitational last week.

North Central (Ill.) is ranked first with 280 points and all eight first place votes, St. Olaf (Minn.) is second with 268 points and Amherst (Mass.) is third with 266 points.

Ohio Northern will return to action Saturday at the Rochester (N.Y.) Yellowjacket Invitational.

USTFCCCA Division III Poll - Week 1

Sept. 16, 2015

		Total	Last
Rank	School (1st Place Votes)	Points	Week
1.	North Central (Ill.) (8)	280	1
2.	St. Olaf (Minn.)	268	2
3.	Amherst (Mass.)	266	4
4.	Wisconsin-Eau Claire	256	3
5.	MIT	246	7
6.	St. Lawrence (N.Y.)	238	6
7.	Washington (Mo.)	235	5
8.	Williams (Mass.)	226	9
9.	Wisconsin-LaCrosse	218	8
10.	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Calif.)	201	12
11.	Tufts (Conn.)	194	10
12.	Wabash (Ind.)	192	11
13.	Carnegie Mellon (Pa.)	186	12
14.	Pomona-Pitzer (Calif.)	173	15
15.	Wisconsin-Oshkosh	167	22
16.	Carleton (Wis.)	156	14
17.	Colby (Maine)	153	21
18.	Geneseo State (N.Y.)	148	18
19.	Calvin (Mich.)	142	16
20.	Johns Hopkins (Md.)	134	20
21.	Haverford (Conn.)	120	23
22.	Dickenson (Pa.)	105	25
23.	Ohio Northern	103	NR
24.	Middlebury (Vt.)	96	16
25.	Rose-Hulman (Ind.)	83	26
26.	Wisconsin-Platteville	79	27
27.	Loras (Iowa)	67	28
28.	RPI (N.Y.)	55	29
29.	Widener (Pa.)	52	19
30.	Central (Iowa)	42	24
31.	Allegheny (Pa.)	41	NR
32.	Bates (Maine)	39	RV
33.	Emory (Ga.)	28	30
34.	Chicago (Ill.)	25	32
35.	New York U.	13	NR

Others Receiving Votes: Messiah 7, SUNY Oneonta 4, Saint John's (Minn.) 3.