2021 NAIA Women's Cross Country Coaches Top 25 Poll - No 4
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - St. Francis (Ill.) remains at No. 1 in the latest Coaches Top 25 Poll.
Poll Methodology
• The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences or groups.
• Each conference is represented by one rater.
• 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 rating) 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 appear on.
• Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes.”
| RANK | LAST TIME | SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | POINTS |
| 1 | 1 | St. Francis (Ill.) [20] | 560 |
| 2 | 2 | Milligan (Tenn.) | 537 |
| 3 | 3 | Cornerstone (Mich.) | 529 |
| 4 | 4 | Taylor (Ind.) | 501 |
| 5 | 5 | Saint Mary (Kan.) | 478 |
| 6 | 9 | College of Idaho | 472 |
| 7 | 6 | The Master's (Calif.) | 454 |
| 8 | 7 | Aquinas (Mich.) | 435 |
| 9 | 8 | Montreat (N.C.) | 426 |
| 10 | 22 | Westmont (Calif.) | 380 |
| 11 | 12 | Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) | 368 |
| 12 | 13 | Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) | 354 |
| 13 | 10 | Southern Oregon | 348 |
| 14 | 14 | Dordt (Iowa) | 339 |
| 15 | NR | Grace (Ind.) | 304 |
| 16 | 18 | Montana Tech | 283 |
| 17 | 17 | Saint Francis (Ind.) | 274 |
| 18 | 19 | Huntington (Ind.) | 240 |
| 19 | 21 | Columbia (Mo.) | 235 |
| 20 | 23 | Carroll (Mont.) | 215 |
| 21 | 11 | Concordia (Neb.) | 201 |
| 22 | NR | Indiana Tech | 190 |
| 23 | 15 | Indiana Wesleyan | 163 |
| 24 | NR | Rocky Mountain (Mont.) | 123 |
| 25 | 25 | Northwest (Wash.) | 122 |
Dropped from the Top 25: Hastings (Neb.), Lewis-Clark State (Idaho), Oklahoma City
Receiving Votes: Vanguard (Calif.) 91, Hastings (Neb.) 83, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 83, Dalton State (Ga.) 50, Doane (Neb.) 42, Oregon Tech 23, Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio) 19, Cumberlands (Ky.) 15, SCAD Savannah (Ga.) 11, Friends (Kan.)
