Kenyon College, the defending Division III NCAA Swimming and Diving Champions hold the top spots in the 2009-10 season's first CSCAA / CollegeSwimming.com Division III Poll. On the men's side, Kenyon captured all fifteen of the first place votes. The Lords topped Denison, which was ranked second by a 139-104 margin earlier this season. The Big Red edged Emory which is ranked third.On the women's side, seven voters weren't convinced that Kenyon's early season 139-104 loss to Denison was enough to knock the Ladies from number one. Denison garnered five first-place votes, two more than second-ranked Emory University.
| Women's Poll | Men's Poll | |||||
| 1 | Kenyon College (7) | 362 | |
1 | Kenyon College (15) | 375 |
| 2 | Emory University (3) | 359 | 2 | Denison University | 352 | |
| 3 | Denison University (5) | 350 | 3 | Emory University | 348 | |
| 4 | Williams College | 248 | 4 | Johns Hopkins University | 263 | |
| 5 | Calvin College | 234 | 5 | Kalamazoo College | 235 | |
| 6 | Amherst College | 228 | 6 | TCNJ | 220 | |
| 7 | Johns Hopkins | 172 | 7 | Amherst College | 178 | |
| 8 | Carthage College | 157 | 8 | Washington U (Mo.) | 156 | |
| 9 | Claremont Mudd-Scripps | 150 | 9 | UW-Stevens Point | 150 | |
| 10 | Carnegie Mellon | 118 | 10 | Williams College | 148 | |
| 11 | Stevens Institute | 116 | 11 | Saint Olaf College | 141 | |
| 12 | Washington U (Mo.) | 112 | 12 | MIT | 127 | |
| 13 | Wheaton College (Ill) | 104 | 13 | Gustavus Adolphus |
114 | |
| 14 | Mary
Washington |
103 | 14 | Claremont Mudd-Scripps | 108 | |
| 15 | New York University | 91 | 15 | Carnegie Mellon | 94 | |
| 16 | TCNJ | 85 | 16 | University of Chicago | 88 | |
| 17 | UW-Stevens Point | 81 | 17 | Washington and Lee | 87 | |
| 18 | Hope College | 76 | 18 | Hope College | 84 | |
| 19 | University of Chicago | 75 | 19 | De Pauw University | 77 | |
| 20 | Middlebury College | 68 | 20 | New York University | 64 | |
| 21 | Gustavus Adolphus | 63 | 20 | Carthage College |
64 | |
| 22 | College of Wooster | 62 | 22 | Olivet College | 63 | |
| 23 | UW-Eau Claire | 55 | 23 | Stevens Institute | 60 | |
| 24 | UC-Santa Cruz | 52 | 24 | Grove City College | 57 | |
| 25 | UW-LaCrosse | 47 | 25 | Coast Guard | 53 | |
| Others Receiving Votes: De Pauw 40, Grove City 35, Springfield 31, Redlands 28, Wittenberg 28, Rochester 26, MIT 23, Grinnell 22, Carleton 21, Case Western 17, Gettysburg 17, Puget Sound 16, Allegheny 15, SUNY-Geneseo 15, Whitworth 13, Tufts 12, Depauw 11, Kalamazoo 11, Centre 9, Ithaca 9, Franklin & Marshall 8, Westminster 4, Connecticut 3, Bowdoin 2, SUNY-New Paltz 1 | Others Receiving Votes: Wooster 44, Saint Thomas 33, Tufts University 29, Case Western Reserve 28, Mary Washington 28, Franklin & Marshall 26, Middlebury 26, Puget Sound 22, Hamilton 21, Connecticut College 20, Wheaton (Ill) 18, Redlands 16, Luther 15, Alfred 14, Calvin 13, SUNY-Geneseo 13, Wabash 12, Saint Johns 10, UC-Santa Cruz 9, UW-LaCrosse 8, Pomona-Pitzer 6, Springfield 6, Brandeis 3, Staten Island 3, Whitworth 2, Wittenberg 1 | |||||
