2021 NAIA Women's Cross Country Coaches Top 25 Poll - Final
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.) [21] | 591 |
| 2 | 2 | Milligan (Tenn.) | 568 |
| 3 | 3 | Cornerstone (Mich.) | 556 |
| 4 | 4 | Taylor (Ind.) | 528 |
| 5 | 5 | Saint Mary (Kan.) | 507 |
| 6 | 6 | College of Idaho | 505 |
| 7 | 7 | The Master's (Calif.) | 481 |
| 8 | 9 | Montreat (N.C.) | 451 |
| 9 | 10 | Westmont (Calif.) | 439 |
| 10 | 8 | Aquinas (Mich.) | 424 |
| 11 | 11 | Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) | 396 |
| 12 | 12 | Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) | 366 |
| 13 | 13 | Southern Oregon | 364 |
| 14 | 14 | Dordt (Iowa) | 351 |
| 15 | 23 | Indiana Wesleyan | 313 |
| 16 | 20 | Carroll (Mont.) | 297 |
| 17 | 15 | Grace (Ind.) | 277 |
| 18 | 19 | Columbia (Mo.) | 232 |
| 19 | 18 | Huntington (Ind.) | 230 |
| 19 | 22 | Indiana Tech | 230 |
| 21 | 16 | Montana Tech | 207 |
| 22 | 17 | Saint Francis (Ind.) | 188 |
| 23 | NR | Oregon Tech | 182 |
| 24 | NR | Hastings (Neb.) | 156 |
| 25 | NR | Vanguard (Calif.) | 139 |
Dropped from the Poll: Rocky Mountain (Mont.), Northwest (Wash.), Concordia (Neb.)
Receiving Votes: Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 102, Dalton State (Ga.) 99, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 45, William Woods (Mo.) 41, Benedictine (Kan.) 41, Oklahoma City 36, Cumberlands (Ky.) 15, SCAD Savannah (Ga.) 15, Morningside (Iowa) 13, Friends (Kan.) 10, Baker (Kan.) 7, William Carey (Miss.) 7, Northwest (Wash.) 3
