2023-24 NAIA Women’s Tennis Coaches’ Preseason Top 25 (August 23)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – After claiming its seventh-consecutive NAIA National Championship (eighth in the last nine years), Georgia Gwinnett was ranked in the top spot of the preseason edition of the Top 25. The Grizzlies claimed 12, first-place votes. Keiser (Fla.) grabbed one first-place vote and checked-in at No. 2, while Southeastern (Fla.), Tennessee Wesleyan and Xavier (La.) rounded-out the top five.
Rating Methodology:
- The Top 25 was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences, and Unaffiliated Groupings.
- The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each voter ranks the best teams. A team receives 30 points for each first-place vote, 29 for second-place and so on through the list.
- The highest and lowest ranking for each team (a non-rating is considered a low ratings) is removed and the team’s ranking will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that the teams appears on.
- Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes”
- The frequency of ratings occurs bi-weekly. This policy was approved by the National Administrative Council (NAC) for the 2017-18 academic season. This change will allow raters the opportunity to consider a larger body of work in between rating periods.
- For the complete Top 25 calendar, click HERE.
| RANK |
LAST TIME |
SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] |
RECORD |
POINTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Georgia Gwinnett [12] | 21-1 | 343 |
| 2 | 1 | Keiser (Fla.) [1] | 22-2 | 332 |
| 3 | 6 | Southeastern (Fla.) | 14-8 | 313 |
| 4 | 10 | Tennessee Wesleyan | 15-3 | 307 |
| 5 | 4 | Xavier (La.) | 22-7 | 302 |
| 6 | 5 | Ave Maria (Fla.) | 11-8 | 285 |
| 7 | 3 | LSU Alexandria (La.) | 13-4 | 277 |
| 8 | 11 | St. Thomas (Fla.) | 20-7 | 265 |
| 9 | 7 | Middle Georgia State | 12-6 | 263 |
| 10 | 9 | Cumberlands (Ky.) | 21-3 | 239 |
| 11 | 15 | Loyola (La.) | 14-8 | 226 |
| 12 | 8 | SCAD Savannah (Ga.) | 9-11 | 221 |
| 13 | 16 | William Carey (Miss.) | 12-10 | 205 |
| 14 | 13 | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | 15-7 | 200 |
| 15 | 14 | Union (Ky.) | 16-2 | 193 |
| 16 | 18 | Holy Cross (Ind.) | 11-2 | 169 |
| 17 | 21 | Westcliff (Calif.) | 14-4 | 162 |
| 18 | 12 | Mobile (Ala.) | 10-5 | 159 |
| 19 | 17 | Indiana Wesleyan | 29-5 | 156 |
| 20 | 19 | SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) | 12-5 | 133 |
| 21 | 20 | Campbellsville (Ky.) | 18-7 | 126 |
| 22 | 22 | William Woods (Mo.) | 9-14 | 110 |
| 23 | RV | Marian (Ind.) | 19-9 | 81 |
| 24 | 23 | Menlo (Calif.) | 12-4 | 71 |
| 25 | RV | Blue Mountain (Miss.) | 9-8 | 52 |
Receiving Votes: Midland (Neb.) 51, Coastal Georgia 44, McPherson (Kan.) 27, Cumberland (Tenn.) 26, Oakland City (Ind.) 24, St. Francis (Ill.) 24, Bethel (Ind.) 22, Brenau (Ga.) 21, Our Lady of the Lake (Texas) 20, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho)7, Dillard (La.) 6, Morningside (Iowa) 5, Ottawa (Kan.) 5.
