Georgia Bulldogs Top First Women’s Division I CSCAA Poll for 2015-16

Retta Race
by Retta Race 1

October 27th, 2015 College, News, Pac-12, SEC

Editor’s Note: SwimSwam does not participate in the voting for the CSCAA Poll. Our first Power Rankings of the 2015-16 season were released last week.

The Collegiate Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has unveiled their first women’s rankings of the 2015-2016 season. The Georgia Bulldog team, last year’s NCAA Championships runner-up, narrowly slid by a fight-to-the-end Tar Heel team in their season-opener. Coming down to the last relay, a North Carolina DQ rendered the squad just short of what they needed to stop the Dawgs’ ability to boost their home-in streak to 95.  Georgia’s Hali Flickinger swam her way to 3 individual wins – 200 free, 200 back, 200 fly – and now holds the NCAA’s top time in 2 of those events, to help propel her Dawgs to the top of the initial CSCAA rankings.

Last year’s NCAA Champions, the California Bears, find themselves positioned in the number 7 spot, just ahead of the Louisville Cardinals at this early point in the season. With the Bears’ talent-rich roster, including freshmen Kathleen Baker and Amy Bilquist, juniors Celina Li and Farida Osman and seniors Rachel Bootsma and Elizabeth Pelton, moving up in the rankings is only a matter of time for the Pac-12 powerhouse.

About: The College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Division I Team Rankings are compiled by nine CSCAA-member coaches and one media member.   The rankings will be released on a weekly basis throughout the 2015-16 season, alternating weeks between a men’s and women’s team ranking.

Methodology: The CSCAA DI Poll Committee will produce in-season rankings of the 25 best performing NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving teams in rank order at the time of each poll.  The poll is not designed to predict the results of the NCAA Championship, but rather which teams would win head-to-head against other teams in the country. Ranking are based on performances that have taken place since the previous poll and include invites as well as dual meets.  The committee does not consider teams that have yet to post official times in the current college season for the first poll.

CSCAA NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Ranking as of October 27, 2015

 

Rank Team Points
1 Georgia 249
2 Stanford 226
3 Texas 224
4 Virginia 218
5 North Carolina 188
6 Florida 187
7 California 180
8 Louisville 176
9 Wisconsin 160
10 Tennessee 157
11 Indiana 152
12 Auburn 139
13 NC State 132
14 Southern California 126
15 Texas A & M 122
16 UCLA 97
17 Minnesota 94
18 Arizona 73
19 Missouri 69
20 Penn State 59
21 Southern Methodist 56
22 Duke 42
23 Michigan 39
24 Alabama 30
25 Florida State 16

 

Women’s DI Poll Committee: 

Chair: Suzanne Yee, Princeton University; Dan Colella, Duke University; Roric Fink, University of Texas; Naya Higashijima, UCLA; Tanica Jamison, Texas A&M University; Mike Keeler, University of San Diego; Colleen Murphy, United States Air Force Academy; Sue Novitsky, University of Illinois; Katie Robinson, Tulane; Colin Shannahan, Wagner College

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colin mcfly
8 years ago

Woohoo go Georgia girls! Watching the girls train everyday pushes me to give my best whenever I can! Go dawgs!

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Former Masters swimmer and coach Loretta (Retta) thrives on a non-stop but productive schedule. Nowadays, that includes having just earned her MBA while working full-time in IT while owning French 75 Boutique while also providing swimming insight for BBC.

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