Women’s Soccer receives votes in final United Soccer Coaches Poll of 2022 season, ranked No. 25 by D3soccer.com
By Wes Mayberry
| United Soccer Coaches Division III Top 25 Poll – Final | D3soccer.com Top 25 Poll – Final |
The Ohio Northern women's soccer team received votes in the final United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division III Top 25 Poll of the 2022 season, which was released on Tuesday.
The Polar Bears are listed second among teams in the "also receiving votes" category, putting them at No. 27 in the poll.
National champion Johns Hopkins (Md.) is the top-ranked team in the poll, and runner-up Case Western Reserve is No. 2.
Messiah (Pa.), Virginia Wesleyan and Misericordia (Pa.) round out the top five.
Additionally, ONU is ranked No. 25 in the final D3soccer.com Top 25 poll of the season. The Polar Bears received 104 points in the poll.
Johns Hopkins, Case Western Reserve, Misericordia, Messiah and Christopher Newport (Va.) are the top five teams in that poll.
The Polar Bears finished the 2022 season 14-2-5 overall and were OAC regular season co-champions with Capital, posting a 7-0-2 mark in conference play. They won their second straight OAC Tournament championship to clinch an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament, where they advanced to the second round for the second consecutive year.
United Soccer Coaches Top 25 - Final
Dec. 6, 2022
| Rank | School | Last | Record |
| 1. | Johns Hopkins (Md.) | 2 | 23-0-2 |
| 2. | Case Western Reserve | 4 | 20-1-1 |
| 3. | Messiah (Pa.) | 5 | 21-2-3 |
| 4. | Virginia Wesleyan | NR | 19-3-4 |
| 5. | Misericordia (Pa.) | 1 | 21-1-1 |
| 6. | Christopher Newport (Va.) | 3 | 19-0-3 |
| 7. | William Smith (N.Y.) | 6 | 14-2-6 |
| 8. | Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) | 7 | 14-3-2 |
| 9. | Trinity (Tex.) | 9 | 21-1-2 |
| 10. | Washington (Mo.) | NR | 11-5-7 |
| 11. | Amherst (Mass.) | 8 | 18-3-0 |
| 12. | Williams (Mass.) | 11 | 11-5-3 |
| 13. | Wisconsin-La Crosse | 13 | 21-2-1 |
| 14. | Emory (Ga.) | 18 | 13-5-1 |
| 15. | Loras (Iowa) | 15 | 19-1-3 |
| 16. | Scranton (Pa.) | NR | 17-3-2 |
| 17. | Montclair State (N.J.) | 12 | 17-3-1 |
| 18. | Mass. Inst. of Tech. | 16 | 15-5-3 |
| 19. | Calvin (Mich.) | 10 | 18-1-1 |
| 20. | Pacific Lutheran (Wash.) | NR | 17-2-3 |
| 21. | SUNY Cortland | 20 | 13-1-6 |
| 22. | Trinity (Conn.) | 19 | 7-5-7 |
| 23. | Wartburg (Iowa) | 17 | 16-3-2 |
| 24. | Tufts (Mass.) | 22 | 11-6-2 |
| 25. | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 13 | 17-1-1 |
Also receiving votes: Rowan University, Ohio Northern University, Illinois Wesleyan University, Wesleyan University