2002 AVCA Division III Nationally and Regionally Ranked Teams List

October 30, 2002

TO: AVCA Division III Member Head Coaches
FR: Jenifer Scheibler, AVCA director of events & awards
RE:  Nationally and regionally ranked teams for postseason award nominations

Included with this letter is the exclusive list of regionally and nationally ranked teams to be used for the compilation of statistics for your nominees for AVCA All-Region and All-America awards.

For AVCA All-Region and All-America Awards purposes, a regionally ranked team is defined as any institution included in any NCAA regional ranking during the 2002 ranking period; a nationally ranked team is defined as any team ranked in the 2002 AVCA Division III Coaches Top 25 Poll for any three weeks, excluding the preseason poll.

Please refer to the 2002 AVCA Division III Awards Packet and the Postseason Nomination Form and Procedures when you compile the statistics for your student-athletes. When you complete the “Individual Season Totals” for your players (bottom of page 9 in the awards packet), you should only use the teams that are listed on the following page for requirements 2) and 3) below. You must submit each player’s statistics against:

1) All teams on your schedule;
2) regionally ranked teams only (from all regions, not just your own); and,
3) nationally ranked teams only.

**Use only the teams listed on the following page when calculating statistics against regionally and nationally ranked teams; do not add teams as new polls and/or rankings are released.

If you do not have a 2002 AVCA Awards Packet you may obtain one from the forms and packets or awards sections of AVCA Online (http://www.avca.org) in Word and PDF format.

Please remember that all postseason nomination forms must be filled out completely and must reach the AVCA office no later than noon Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2002. It is strongly recommended that material be sent via overnight mail service (morning delivery) to the AVCA office in order to allow your package to be tracked. No faxed or late entries will be accepted; AVCA staff will not pick up nomination materials from the airport or any other location. Those packages not meeting the November 12 noon deadline will be disqualified.
2002 AVCA Division III Ranked Teams Lists

**Use only the teams listed on the following page when calculating statistics against regionally and nationally ranked teams; do not add teams as new polls and/or rankings are released.

2002 AVCA Division III Ranked Teams Lists:

Regionally Ranked Teams
Alma
Amherst
Austin
Baldwin-Wallace
Benedictine (Ill.)
Bethel (Minn.)
Bridgewater (Va.)
Cal State Hayward
Capital
Carnegie Mellon
Catholic
Central (Iowa)
Christopher Newport
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Clarkson
Coast Guard
Colby
Colorado College
Concordia-Moorhead
SUNY Cortland
DePauw
East Texas Baptist
Eastern
Elmhurst
Emory
Franklin
Franklin & Marshall
Frostburg State
SUNY Geneseo
George Fox
Gettysburg
Gordon
Greensboro
Illinois Wesleyan
Ithaca
Juniata
King's (Pa.)
La Verne
Lakeland
Lebanon Valley
Linfield
Loras
Maryville (Tenn.)
McMurry
Messiah
MIT
Millsaps
Moravian
Mount Union
Mount St. Joseph
Mount Union
Regionally Ranked Teams (Cont.)
Nazareth
Nebraska Wesleyan
New York U.
Ohio Northern
Oneonta State
Oswego State
Pacific Lutheran
Plymouth State
Puget Sound
Rhodes
Roanoke
Rochester Institute of Technology
St. Olaf
St. Thomas (Minn.)
Savannah Art and Design
Simpson
Smith
Southwestern (Texas)
Springfield
Trinity (Texas)
Tufts
Union (N.Y.)
Vassar
Wartburg
Washington (Mo.)
Washington and Lee
Wellesley
Wesleyan (Conn.)
Whitman
Whitworth
Williams
Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Wisconsin-La Crosse
Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Wisconsin-River Falls
Wisconsin-Stout
Wisconsin-Whitewater
Wittenberg
York (Pa.)

Nationally Ranked Teams
Baldwin-Wallace
Bethel (Minn.)
Cal State Hayward
Carnegie Mellon
Central (Iowa)
Eastern
Elmhurst
Emory
George Fox
Gordon
Ithaca
Juniata
La Verne
Mount St. Joseph
Nazareth
Nebraska Wesleyan
Ohio Northern
Puget Sound
St. Thomas (Minn.)
Trinity (Texas)
Wartburg
Washington (Mo.)
Whitworth
Wisconsin-River Falls
Wisconsin-Stout
Wisconsin-Whitewater
Wittenberg