2025 Women's Soccer Top 25

[WLCALUM83]

United Soccer Coaches Pre-Season Women's Top 25 Poll is up:

https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings/college-rankings/ncaa-diii-women/

[Kuiper]

United Soccer Coaches Pre-Season Women's Top 25 Poll is up:

https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings/college-rankings/ncaa-diii-women/

This is just a reposting of last year's rankings, but the ranking is already showing its age after the first weekend of play.  For example, Bridgewater beat #16 Carnegie Mellon, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps beat #17 NYU, #23 Pacific Lutheran tied #10 Trinity (TX), RV Carleton tied #5 Johns Hopkins etc

[Ron Boerger]

There's so little traffic on this board that I didn't want to create another topic, but they're top 25 so it fits:  congrats to Messiah's women's HC Scott Frey who won the 500th game of his career when he led the Falcons to a 3-0 win over Ursinus.  He's currently second among active women's D3 coaches (trailing Lynchburg's Todd Olsen by nine when the season started) and sixth all-time.  He is the winningest active D3 women's coach by a significant margin (.909 at season's start to Loras' Matt Pucci's .845) as well as all time (Hardin-Simmons' Marcus Wood, now at Dallas Baptist, .866). 

[CentPA]

It was great to see Coach Frey get his 500th win.  With winning 90% of his games I would guess 600 wins is within reach if he coaches another 4 to 5 years.

Looking forward to this Friday's game @ 4pm (on a nuetral field and no paywall) between #3 Christopher Newport (4-0-0) and the now #8 Case Western (5-0-0).  Both teams undefeated and both teams have not conceded a goal yet this year.  So something has to give!

[Kuiper]

Here are the results of the first coaches poll for 2025:

https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings/college-rankings/ncaa-diii-women/

National - Poll 1 - September 9, 2025
Rank    School    Prev    W-L-T
1    Washington University (Mo.)    1    4-0-0
2    Messiah University    8    4-0-0
3    Christopher Newport University    3    4-0-0
4    Amherst College    6    3-0-0
5    Emory University    4    3-0-0
6    Massachusetts Institute of Technology    12    4-0-0
7    Misericordia University    7    4-0-0
8    Case Western Reserve University    RV    4-0-0
9    William Smith College    2    3-0-1
10    Pomona-Pitzer Colleges    19    3-0-0
11    University of Chicago    11    2-0-0
12    Wesleyan University    21    2-0-0
13    Middlebury College    RV    3-0-0
14    Swarthmore College    NR    3-0-1
15    Washington & Lee University    13    3-1-0
16    Carleton College    RV    3-0-1
17    Rowan University    RV    3-0-0
18    Carnegie Mellon University    16    3-1-0
19    Brandeis University    NR    3-0-1
20    Claremont-McKenna-Harvey Mudd-Scripps Colleges    NR    3-0-1
21    Tufts University    18    1-0-0
22    Johns Hopkins University    5    2-2-1
23    Vassar College    NR    3-0-0
24    Illinois Institute of Technology    22    3-0-0
25    University of Wisconsin-La Crosse    NR    4-0-0

Records shown are through games of September 7, 2025

Also receiving votes: New York University, California Lutheran University, Colby College, Calvin University, University of Hartford, The College of New Jersey, Williams College, Franklin & Marshall College, Trinity College, Rhodes College