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Cross Country: Division I Rankings, Women

Posted October 30th, 2007 at 8:45 PM by J. R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Cross Country

Stanford maintained its top national ranking by winning a highly competitive Pacific-10 Conference women’s cross country championship race Saturday in Corvallis, Ore. The top-ranked Cardinal defeated three other teams ranked in the top seven to collect its 12th straight conference title.

Stanford received 12 of 13 first-place votes in the Division I women’s poll released today by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Fourth-ranked Princeton claimed the remaining first-place vote.

Trailing Stanford in this week’s top 10 are Oregon, Florida State, Princeton, Arizona State, Minnesota, Washington, Michigan State, Michigan and Arkansas.

The second 10 consists of Colorado State, Illinois, Colorado, West Virginia, Providence, Rice, BYU, Texas Tech, Iowa and Georgetown.

Arianna Lambie and Teresa McWalters finished one-two as Stanford won the Pac-10 championship with 48 points. Lambie became just the third female runner to win three Pac-10 individual championships.

Stanford will be shooting for its third straight national title at the 2007 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships Nov. 20 in Terre Haute, Ind.

Second-ranked Oregon, led by freshman Alex Kosinski’s third-place finish, placed second with 64 points. Fifth-ranked Arizona State and seventh-ranked Washington each scored 68 points with ASU claiming third place on the tiebreaker.

Susan Kuijken’s individual victory led third-ranked Florida State to the Atlantic Coast Conference women’s championship in Charlottesville, Va. The Seminoles scored 64 points to finish 38 points in front of No. 21 North Carolina State.

Fourth-ranked Princeton won the Ivy League Heptagonals at Van Cortlandt Park with 25 points. Prinecton’s Liz Costello finished first individually.
Sixth-ranked Minnesota won the Big 10 championship in Columbus, Ohio, scoring 72 points to edge eighth-ranked Michigan State by one point. Minnesota’s top individual, Ladia Albertson-Junkans, finished 10th, but the Gophers placed five runners in the top 17 to edge Michigan State.

No. 10 Arkansas won the Southeastern Conference championship with 34 points, finishing comfortably in front of No. 25 Tennessee (84 points). Arkansas placed four runners in the top 10, led by Christine Kalmer’s second-place finish. Georgia’s Sarah Madebach won the individual title.

Division I teams will compete in nine regional meets across the country on the weekend of Nov. 10.

The voting panel for the Division I women’s poll consists of nine elected regional representatives and four at-large USTFCCCA members. The rankings are compiled by Jesse Rosen.

Oregon is the top-ranked Division I men’s team.

NCAA Division I women’s cross country rankings
Oct. 30, 2007
(first-place votes and point total)

1. Stanford (12) 389
2. Oregon 367
3. Florida State 364
4. Princeton (1) 358
5. Arizona State 330
6. Minnesota 325
7. Washington 310
8. Michigan State 305
9. Michigan 268
10. Arkansas 267
11. Colorado State 251
12. Illinois 245
13. Colorado 240
14. West Virginia 233
15. Providence 185
16. Rice 181
17. BYU 172
18. Texas Tech 170
19. Iowa 167
20. Georgetown 159
21. North Carolina State 124
22. Northern Arizona 121
23. Wisconsin 118
24. Boston College 88
25. Tennessee 58
26. North Carolina 48
27. UC Santa Barbara 46
28. Penn State 34
29. Georgia 33
30. Nebraska 25

Also receiving votes: Columbia 15, Washington State 15, Virginia Tech 12, Florida 9, Baylor 4, UC-Riverside 3, Stony Brook 3, Wichita State 2, Villanova 1.