Kenyon Stays Atop Division III Poll

A record-setting performance at the Nike Cup propelled Kenyon College, the longtime lords of Division III swimming to a near-unanimous lead in the latest CSCAA/CollegeSwimming.com Division IIII Dual Meet Polls.

The Lords and Ladies, who own the nation's fastest times in each relay, claimed seventeen of nineteen first place votes in the women's poll and all but two of twenty-five first place votes cast in the men's poll.  Kenyon has cast a long shadow over Division III swimming with the Lords winning 29 consecutive NCAA Championships and the Ladies winning twenty-two of the past twenty-five titles.  The CSCAA/CollegeSwimming.com Poll reflect dual-meet strength.
 
In the women's poll, Emory University and Denison University retained their second and third-place rankings while Amherst, with one first-place vote, moved ahead of Williams for fourth place in the poll.  UC Santa Cruz made the biggest jump.  After not being ranked in the first poll, the Banana Slugs crawled up to 11th in the national poll.  Luther College, ranked 16th in the poll, received the final first-place vote.
 
In the men's poll, Kenyon remains in the top spot.  Last year's dual-meet champions, Denison University moved up a spot into second, one spot and eight points ahead of Emory University.  Washington University and Luther College each received one first place vote.  Wash U moved ahead of Johns Hopkins into fourth while Luther dropped a spot to 23rd.  UC Santa Cruz and Washington & Lee University both benefitted from strong swims at the UCSC Invitational.  The Banana Slugs jumped up nine spots to 17th while the Generals gained six to rank 13th.

Rank	School	Points	Prev
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25	Kenyon (23) Denison Emory Wash U(MO)  (1) Johns Hopkins St. Olaf College Grove City TCNJ Hope Williams MIT UW-Stevens Point Wash &  Lee Carnegie Mellon DePauw Kalamazoo UC Santa Cruz New York Amherst Carthage Gustavus Adolphus Luther (1) Chicago Puget Sound Alfred	622 592 584 524 479 423 386 382 337 317 294 285 255 253 221 203 187 186 173 163 148 125 88 87 82	1 3 2 5 4 6 9 8 12 7 17 10 19 14 18 15 26 11 21 24 20 23 26 16 26
Also Receiving Votes: SUNY Geneseo 74, Tufts 69, Wooster 51, Case Western 47, Middlebury 45, Wabash 36, Stevens Tech 36, Franklin & Marshall 16, Springfield 15,  Washington & Jefferson 14, USMMA 12, Connecticut 11, Mary Washington 11, Carleton 9, Wittenberg 9, Centre 8, Westminster 7, Wheaton-IL 4, Ohio Northern 3, Whitworth 3