Women's Cross Country ranked No. 35 in USTFCCCA Week 4 poll
By Wes Mayberry
| USTFCCCA NCAA III Women's Cross Country Poll - Week 4 |
ADA — The Ohio Northern women's cross country team is ranked No. 35 nationally in the USTFCCCA NCAA Division III National Coaches Poll for Week 4, which was released on Wednesday.
The Polar Bears (60-9 overall) received 16 points in the poll and moved down four spots from the Week 3 poll.
SUNY Geneseo remains No. 1 in the poll with 350 points and all 10 first-place votes. Wartburg (Iowa) is second with 340 points, and Chicago (Ill.) is third with 330 points.
Additionally, ONU is ranked No. 5 in the Great Lakes Region, trailing Hope (Mich.), Calvin (Mich.), John Carroll and Case Western Reserve.
The Polar Bears are coming off a ninth-place finish of 36 teams at the Pre-National Meet at Forest Akers East Golf Course in East Lansing, Mich., on Saturday. Northern finished behind eight other nationally ranked teams.
Fifth-year senior Tessa Pitcovich (Stow/Stow-Munroe Falls) led the way, placing 27th of 316 runners overall with a time of 22:46 on the 6,000-meter course.
Northern returns to action on Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Oberlin Region Rumble.
USTFCCCA Coaches Poll - #4
Oct. 5, 2022
| Rank |
School (First Place Votes) | Total Points |
Last Week |
| 1. | SUNY-Geneseo (10) | 350 | 1 |
| 2. | Wartburg (Iowa) | 340 | 2 |
| 3. | Chicago (Ill.) | 330 | 3 |
| 4. | Johns Hopkins (Md.) | 316 | 4 |
| 5. | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Calif.) | 314 | 5 |
| 6. | Mass. Inst. of Technology | 295 | 7 |
| 7. | Washington (Mo.) | 293 | 6 |
| 8. | Amherst (Mass.) | 282 | 8 |
| 9. | Wisconsin-LaCrosse | 270 | 9 |
| 10. | Pomona-Pitzer (Calif.) | 260 | 10 |
| 11. | Hope (Mich.) | 248 | 12 |
| 12. | George Fox (Ore.) | 238 | 25 |
| 13. | Tufts (Mass.) | 228 | 13 |
| 14. | St. Olaf (Minn.) | 218 | 15 |
| 15. | Lynchburg (Va.) | 203 | 27 |
| 16. | Williams (Mass.) | 202 | 16 |
| 17. | Carleton (Minn.) | 188 | 11 |
| 18. | Calvin (Mich.) | 182 | 23 |
| 19. | Bates (Maine) | 171 | 19 |
| 20. | New York U. | 156 | 26 |
| 21. | John Carroll | 146 | 17 |
| 22. | Colorado College | 139 | 29 |
| 23. | Loras (Iowa) | 124 | 18 |
| 24. | Dickinson (Pa.) | 104 | 24 |
| 25. | Emory (Ga.) | 101 | 28 |
| 26. | Wisconsin-Eau Claire | 95 | 22 |
| 27. | Case Western Reserve | 94 | NR |
| 28. | California-Santa Cruz | 81 | 21 |
| 29. | Middlebury (Vt.) | 68 | 14 |
| 30. | Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) | 66 | 20 |
| 31. | St. Lawrence (N.Y.) | 60 | 35 |
| 32. | Washington & Lee (Va.) | 34 | 32 |
| 33. | Central (Iowa) | 33 | NR |
| 34. | Worcester Polytechnic Inst. (Mass.) | 19 | 34 |
| 35. | Ohio Northern | 16 | 31 |
Others receiving votes : Widener 13, Elizabethtown 9, Allegheny (Pa.) 6, Smith 4, RPI 3, Caltech 1