Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 2/3/09
Cabrini College is ranked No. 5 and Haverford College is 13th in the LaxPower Preseason Division III Forum Poll. The polls are distinctive in two respects. First, the rankings are made by participating members (for the most part fans) instead of groups of coaches or media people. Second, many pollsters make comments about the teams they rank, and those comments, sometimes extensive, are posted with each poll.
LaxPower 2009 Division III Men’s Preseason Forum Poll
1 Salisbury 358 16 first-place votes
2 Gettysburg 336 2
3 Middlebury 303
4 Cortland 286
5 Cabrini 269
6 Stevenson 263
7 Roanoke 228
8 Endicott 212
9 Ithaca 183
10 Lynchburg 174
11 Washington College 170
12 Wesleyan 151
13 Haverford 145
14 Stevens 144
15 Denison 84
16 St. Lawrence 71
17 Bowdoin 66
18 Springfield 58
19 Geneseo 49
20 Western New England 46
Others receiving votes: Williams (43), Nazareth (37), Washington & Lee (32), Tufts (23), Clarkson (16), RIT (12), Connecticut College (7), Ohio Wesleyan (6), Dickinson (3), Union (2), Whittier (1), Kenyon (1), Muhlenberg (1)
Click here to see poll and reader comments on LaxPower for the Division III Forum Poll
LaxPower 2009 Division I Men’s Preseason Forum Poll
1 Syracuse 414 16 first-place votes
2 Virginia 397 4
3 Maryland 375 1
4 Johns Hopkins 346
5 Cornell 300
6 Duke 286
7 North Carolina 281
8 Georgetown 264
9 Notre Dame 217
10 UMBC 216
11 Navy 210
12 Princeton 174
13 Hofstra 147
14 Albany 134
15 Brown 122
16 Loyola 102
17 Denver 94
18 Colgate 83
19 Ohio State 52
20 Bucknell 48
Others receiving votes: Delaware (34), Massachusetts (25), Drexel (19), Penn State (18), Army (17), Stony Brook (11), Rutgers (10), Lehigh (6), Towson (4), Hobart (2), Harvard (1), St. John’s (1)
Click here to see poll and reader comments on LaxPower for the Division I Forum Poll
LaxPower 2009 Division I Women’s Preseason Forum Poll
1 Northwestern 340 17 first-place votes
2 Duke 309
3 Syracuse 303
4 Virginia 286
5 Princeton 251
6 Penn 242
7 Georgetown 231
8 North Carolina 223
9 Maryland 220
10 Boston University 198
11 Notre Dame 153
12 Vanderbilt 152
13 New Hampshire 112
14 Towson 93
15 Dartmouth 87
16t Cornell 68
16t Denver 68
18 Johns Hopkins 53
19 James Madison 46
20 George Mason 40
Others receiving votes: Stanford (23), Richmond (16), William & Mary (14), Oregon (7), California (7), Loyola (6), Yale (4), Rutgers (4), Navy (4), Massachusetts (3), Penn State (2), Boston College (2), Delaware (1), Temple (1), Ohio State (1)
Click here to see poll and reader comments on LaxPower for the Women’s Division I Forum Poll
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