Emory women’s golf ended last season on top of Div. III.
The Eagles will start the new season in that same spot.
Emory is the unanimous No. 1 team to open the new season in the 2022-23 Mizuno WGCA Div. III preseason coaches poll. The Eagles collected all 11 first-place votes.
George Fox check in at No. 2 with Methodist coming in at No. 3.
Carnegie Mellon and Williams College will start at No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, the poll.
| Rank | University (First-place votes) | Points |
| 1 | Emory (11) | 275 |
| 2 | George Fox | 250 |
| 3 | Methodist | 245 |
| 4 | Carnegie Mellon | 236 |
| 5 | Williams College | 226 |
| 6 | Pomona-Pitzer | 208 |
| 7 | University of Redlands | 207 |
| 8 | New York University | 193 |
| 9 | Centre College | 177 |
| 10 | Washington University in St. Louis | 169 |
| 11 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 157 |
| 12 | Amherst College | 154 |
| 13 | Washington and Lee | 139 |
| 14 | Illinois Wesleyan | 126 |
| 15 | Denison | 106 |
| 16 | Rhodes College | 102 |
| 17 | St. Catherine | 93 |
| 18 | Mary Hardin-Baylor | 88 |
| 19 | Trinity (Texas) | 66 |
| 20 | Texas at Dallas | 51 |
| 21 | Berry College | 48 |
| T22 | Gustavus Adolphus College | 32 |
| T22 | Middlebury College | 32 |
| T22 | Sewanee: The University of the South | 32 |
| 25 | UC-Santa Cruz | 23 |
| Others receiving votes: Carthage College (22); Wellesley College (18); Bethel (17); Chapman (15); Carleton College (10); California Lutheran (8); Wisconsin-Whitewater (8); College of Saint Benedict (7); Christopher Newport (6); Grinnell College (6); Hamilton College (6); York College of Pennsylvania (6); Oglethorpe (5); Randolph-Macon College (3); DePauw (2); Hope College (1) | ||
About the Women’s Golf Coaches Association
The Women’s Golf Coaches Association, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women’s collegiate golf coaches. The WGCA was formed to encourage the playing of college golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition. Today, the WGCA represents over 650 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes they represent.
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