{"id":9392,"date":"2026-05-29T13:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/9392\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T13:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:34:15","slug":"mizuno-womens-golf-coaches-association-college-golf-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/9392\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizuno Women&#8217;s Golf Coaches Association college golf polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 10, 2026, 11:58 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Women\u2019s Golf Coaches Association has announced the results of the most recent Mizuno WGCA coaches polls. These are the third polls of the spring 2026 season. In Div. I and Div. II, the top teams are holding steady while there&#8217;s a new No. 1 in Div. III.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:474px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/89552577007-wingate.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Wingate women's golf team for the 2025-2026 season.\"\/>Mizuno WGCA women&#8217;s golf coaches poll &#8211; Div. I<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Stanford is the unanimous No. 1 in the latest poll. The Cardinal earned another win \u2013 at theCharles Schwab Women\u2019s Collegiate Invitational \u2013 since the last poll. USC is No. 2, Texas A&amp;M stays No. 3, with Florida at No. 4 and Oregon moving into the No. 5 spot.<\/p>\n<p>RankTeamVotes (first-place votes)1Stanford475 (19)2USC4563Texas A&amp;M4264Florida4235Oregon3936Texas3877Arkansas3638Auburn3429Wake Forest32410Pepperdine30011Duke28512North Carolina26113Vanderbilt22314UCLA21415Central Florida21216Florida State17317Mississippi State16818Tennessee15919Arizona State11920Mississippi10721South Carolina7822Baylor7623Iowa State6424Oklahoma State6025Oklahoma25<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Other receiving votes: Eastern Michigan (19); Houston (12); SMU (10); Arizona (9); Missouri (7); Kent State (4); Virginia (1).<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a>Mizuno WGCA women&#8217;s golf coaches poll &#8211; Div. II<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Wingate is the unanimous No. 1 in the latest Div. II poll, coming off the heels of a win at the 2026 Grand Harbor Classic and a fourth-place finish at the 2026 Carolina Challenge Cup. Dallas Baptist is No. 2, and Anderson slides up to the No. 3 spot.<\/p>\n<p>RankTeamVotes (first-place votes)1Wingate475 (19)2Dallas Baptist4563Anderson4274Findlay4235Lander3926Texas &#8211; Tyler3817Nova Southeastern3678Lynn3399Barry31610Lee30711North Georgia27712Cal State San Marcos25913Florida Southern College24414Tampa23915Flagler College20616St. Mary\u2019s Texas19917Rollins College16218Grand Valley State15619Indianapolis13420Saint Leo11221Erskine College8722Eckerd College6523Lincoln Memorial5124Midwestern State4825West Florida30<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Other receiving votes: Colorado State-Pueblo (9); Palm Beach Atlantic (6); West Texas A&amp;M (6); California State-Los Angeles (2).<\/p>\n<p>Mizuno WGCA women&#8217;s golf coaches poll &#8211; Div. III<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Emory is the new No. 1 in the Div. III poll after a second-place finish in the 2026 Georgia State Invitational. NYU is also moving up, into the No. 2 spot after consecutive wins. Carnegie Mellon is No. 3.<\/p>\n<p>RankTeamVotes (first-place votes)1Emory539 (15)2New York University528 (6)3Carnegie Mellon514 (1)4Pomona\u2011Pitzer4515Williams College4326Washington University in St. Louis4297Amherst College4258Washington and Lee3879Claremont\u2011Mudd\u2011Scripps Colleges37810Randolph\u2011Macon College34511Redlands32312Hamilton College28113Middlebury College26614Mary Hardin\u2011Baylor25115Wellesley College24816Carleton College21917Bowdoin College205T18Trinity176T18Denison17620Grinnell College15221Illinois Wesleyan11822Babson College8223University of the South6224Huntingdon College5725UC-Santa Cruz35<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Other receiving votes: George Fox (31); Wisconsin-Stout (25); California Lutheran (7); DePauw (4); Macalester College (3); Lynchburg (1).<\/p>\n<p>Mizuno WGCA women&#8217;s golf coaches poll &#8211; NAIA<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Keiser remains the unanimous No. 1, followed by No. 2 Dalton State with Marian moving to No. 3.<\/p>\n<p>RankTeamVotes (first-place votes)1Keiser100 (10)2Dalton State College903Marian784SCAD Savannah715SCAD Atlanta586William Carey537Loyola388Indiana Wesleyan299Embry\u2011Riddle1510the Cumberlands12<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Other receiving votes: Pikeville (3); Texas Wesleyan (3).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">About the Women\u2019s Golf Coaches Association<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Women\u2019s Golf Coaches Association, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women\u2019s collegiate golf coaches. The WGCA was formed to encourage the playing of college golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition. Today, the WGCA represents over 750 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes they represent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 10, 2026, 11:58 a.m. ET The Women\u2019s Golf Coaches Association has announced the results of the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3021],"tags":[58,3123,59,60,61,77,73,990,65,4502,4500,4498,4501,4497,4499,69,308,4134,67,315,4503,62],"class_list":["post-9392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mizuno","tag-accessfree","tag-mizuno","tag-sourcegolfweek","tag-sstssportsgolfcollege","tag-sstsncollege","tag-tagcolleges-universities","tag-tageastern-michigan-university","tag-tagflorida","tag-taggolf","tag-taghuntingdon-college","tag-tagiowa-state-university","tag-tagkent-state-university","tag-tagmidwestern-state-university","tag-tagnaia","tag-tagnew-york-university","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","tag-tagsports-coaching-training","tag-tagsports-news","tag-taguniversity-of-southern-california","tag-tagwest-texas-am-university","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}