2022 D1 Outdoor Top 25 Rankings (Women): Update #3

Additional contributions by Garrett Zatlin

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Listed eligibility takes redshirts and Covid-related extensions into consideration.

TFRRS is used as a general guide when determining eligibility.

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(Unranked):

Was not ranked in our last update.

(#/#):

First number indicates how much the individual has moved in the rankings.

The second number indicates where they were ranked in our last update.

25. Amelia Mazza-Downie, Sophomore, New Mexico (0 / 25)

Has not competed since our last update.

24. Aneta Konieczek, Senior, Oregon (Unranked)

Oregon's Aneta Konieczek and Oregon State’s Grace Fetherstonhaugh had a wildly close steeplechase battle at the Oregon Relays.

How close?

Blink and you might have missed who won.

Konieczek was the winner on her home track, holding Fetherstonhaugh off by a minuscule .04 seconds in a 9:44 steeplechase season debut. The Oregon senior is clearly experienced in said event as she was an Olympian last summer for Poland and has a PR of 9:25.

The Oregon Relays performance might be nearly 20 seconds off her 2021 personal best, but for a season opener and a real race throughout, Konieczek is in a good starting position with a month to go before she takes on the likes of BYU’s Courtney Wayment, New Mexico's Elise Thorner and West Virginia’s Ceili McCabe.

Running a fast time and earning a key win over a top talent like Fetherstonhaugh certainly helps Konieczek's argument for a ranking. However, the potential upside she has when it comes to her 9:25 personal best is arguably her most valuable aspect. With a month left until the national meet, Konieczek might have enough time to build back to sub-9:30 fitness...maybe.

23. Krissy Gear, Senior, Arkansas (-2 / 21)

Gear was the final leg of Arkansas’ 4x1500 meter relay at Penn Relays. The senior, going up against NC State’s Katelyn Tuohy, made a decisive move 230 meters from the finish and helped the Razorbacks break the Penn Relays, Collegiate and National records.

On her leg, Gear was never phased, even when Tuohy passed her early in the 1500 meters. She kept her composure and made the winning move when it mattered. Gear split 4:12 as the anchor and held Tuohy off 16:53 to 16:55.

From here, Gear will most likely put all her efforts into the 1500 and the steeplechase. She could do well in either event as she has run 4:14 and 10:00 so far this season. With the way the steeplechase is shaping out, Gear’s best event might turn out to be the 1500 meters as she has a PR of 4:09 and so many women are around the 4:11 to 4:15 mark right now.

There's a lot of opportunity for Gear in her marquee event and this past weekend was evidence that her veteran poise could produce promising 1500 results in the postseason.

22. Adva Cohen, Senior, New Mexico (Unranked)

Entering this past weekend, we had anticipated New Mexico's Adva Cohen to compete in the steeplechase at Payton Jordan. But instead, she opted to solely contest the 5k.

It was surprising to see Cohen, an All-American in the steeplechase with a PR of 9:29, not yet run the event this spring. However, she is starting to show that she is a star talent in the 5k.

A few weeks ago at Bryan Clay, Cohen ran a then-PR of 15:29 in the 5k, finishing 3rd in a deep field. This time would’ve easily qualified her for the regional meet, but the Lobo senior didn’t stop there.

At this past weekend’s Payton Jordan, Cohen ran in the invitational 5k heat and finished as the top collegiate in 4th place. And to add to that, she recorded a three-second PR of 15:26.

It seems that Cohen is focusing on the 5k this season, but there are still a few opportunities for her to run a regional qualifying steeplechase time. Her improved consistency in the 5k is super promising and her experience is hard to ignore. However, even with the top-heaviness of the women's steeplechase this year, that event still seems to make more sense for Cohen.

And that possibility is what gives her ranking plenty of upside.

21. Lauren Ellsworth-Barnes, Senior, BYU (+1 / 22)

After running 2:01 for 800 meters and 4:13 for 1500 meters, both at Bryan Clay, we opted to put Ellsworth-Barnes in our rankings. And instead of running in the invitational 800 meter race at the Penn Relays, the BYU senior joined her teammates in the DMR and the 4x800 this past weekend.

On Friday’s DMR, Ellsworth-Barnes got things started for the Cougars in the 1200 meter leg. She split 3:18 and had a three-second gap on the field when she passed off the baton. Her teammates did their jobs as well as the relay finished with a time of 10:50.

One day later, Ellsworth-Barnes ran a respectable 2:07 mark during an 800 meter split, making up ground over the course of the two laps. Even though this split is six seconds off the senior’s personal best mark, it doesn’t sway her ranking.

Ellsworth-Barnes has already made her case as a top-tier name in the 800 meters and the 1500 meters. For the most part, she has built great consistency this spring and if you look at TFRRS, you can see that most of her recent momentum stems from a quietly successful winter season.

As long as she maintains decent results into the postseason, we have no reason to drop Ellsworth-Barnes from our rankings.

20. McKenna Keegan, Senior, Villanova (-3 / 17)

Villanova’s McKenna Keegan didn’t toe the line in an individual event over the span of the last two weeks. However, she did run a 400 meter leg on the DMR and an 800 meter leg on the 4x800 meter relay for the Wildcats at Penn Relays.

In her first relay of the weekend (the DMR), Keegan didn’t run the 800 meters, her speciality event. Instead, the senior ran the 400 leg for Villanova, splitting 53.81, a time that would be considered a PR by almost half a second from what she ran at the Virginia Challenge a week before.

The next day, Keegan joined her teammates in the 4x800 and she brought the team home in a time of 2:04, moving up three places over the course of the leg.

Keegan has a seasonal best of 2:03 for 800 meters so far this spring in her lone attempt at the event. However, based on the way she ran at Penn Relays, it wouldn’t be surprising to see her lower that time leading up to the regional meet.

19. Jenna Magness, Junior, Michigan State (+4 / 23)

One week after running a 1500 meter PR of 4:16, Magness traveled to Virginia to take on some of the nation’s best in the 5k. In doing so, one of the most underrated collegiate athletes in the NCAA finished runner-up and with a new shiny PR of 15:26.

Magness is very consistent in the 5k as she hasn’t finished outside of the top-seven in the event since the indoor national meet in May of 2021. Her recent 15:26 performance at the Virginia Challenge was a six-second improvement for the Michigan State star and it sent her into the top-10 on the national leaderboard for the event.

The Spartan veteran has been an All-American in the 5k at the last three national meets on the track, indoors and outdoors combined. She is already making her case to continue this trend come the outdoor national meet.

But, it’s important to note that we are still waiting to see what Magness could do over the 10k if she chooses to contest the event. In theory, she seems to do better the longer distance becomes, and with the 10k so wide-open this spring, Magness would likely improve her chances of finishing higher at the national meet by moving up.

18. Lauren Ryan, Junior, Florida State (-4 / 14)

In her first race since the NCAA Indoor Championships and World Indoor Championships, Florida State’s Lauren Ryan shot herself up into the top-10 on the national leaderboard in the 5k.

Competing at Payton Jordan, Ryan finished as the second-best collegiate in the women's 5k field, only trailing New Mexico’s Adva Cohen in a time of 15:30. This finishing time might not be a PR for Lauren Ryan as she ran 15:22 in May 2021, but it does label Ryan as a potential All-American on the track this season...which is hardly a surprise.

The junior hasn’t competed on the outdoor oval for FSU during her career thus far, but that lack of experience shouldn’t affect Ryan. She has become a dominant competitor and, given her 4:12 personal best for 1500 meters, she is someone who you don’t want close to you when it comes down to the final few laps.

17. Emily Mackay, Senior, Binghamton (+2 / 19)

Is Mackay more primed for the 1500 meters or the 5k?

As an All-American in the 5k with a PR of 15:42, one would think that the 5k should be the event that the senior hones-in on after struggling at the national meet this past winter in the mile, failing to make the finals.

However, at the Virginia Challenge, Mackay continued to attack the metric mile when she ran 4:13 to finish 3rd place, nearly matching her "en route" PR from the indoor season.

Given her success in the mile this past winter, it made sense that Mackay would go after fast 1500 meter marks. Still, the 5k seems like it may be her marquee event.

So which event does she go with?

The Binghamton ace hasn’t raced the 5k this season, so right now, we are under the impression that it’s the 1500 meters that she'll pursue in the postseason.

And just by looking at that aforementioned 4:13 performance, that move would make sense for Mackay. She has, after all, developed more speed during the indoor season, running 2:03 for 800 meters and 4:30 in the mile, respectively.

Just this past weekend, Mackay competed with her teammates in the DMR at Penn Relays and ran a 4:36 split on the 1600 meter anchor leg. She was able to move the Binghamton women up three places during the race en route to breaking their own school record.

Between her Virginia Challenge 1500 meter effort and her Penn Relays' DMR leg, Mackay is solidifying herself as a name to keep in mind for potentially earning All-American honors in the 1500 if that’s the event she pursues.

While the 5k has given her the most historical success, and while the mile did go poorly at the tail-end of this past winter, Mackay has simply been too good in the 1500 meters.

16. Ceili McCabe, Rs. Sophomore, West Virginia (Unranked)

West Virginia’s McCabe quietly put together a 9:32 steeplechase performance at the West Virginia Mountaineer Twilight meet on Saturday evening. In her first race since the NCAA Indoor Championships, McCabe earned a substantial PR and won the race by a 49 second margin.

This West Virginia superstar just recorded a five-second PR in her season debut and has now made a name for herself as one of the top steeplechasers this season, something that her resume did suggest was coming.

However, we can't forget the fact that McCabe has valuable championship experience in this event as she was the 6th place finisher at the 2021 outdoor national meet in the steeplechase. Given her championship experience in other races in other seasons, it's hard to think that McCabe won't have future success in her best event come June.

The main question now is, will McCabe race the 5k at some point in the upcoming week? Or will her main focus be on the steeplechase heading into the BIG 12 Championships? If she does run a quick 5k, would she try the steeple/5k double at the national meet?

This WVU star was the bronze medalist at the cross country national meet in the fall and ran 8:52 in the 3000 during the winter, two indicators of a potentially nationally competitive time in the 5k this spring.

15. Mia Barnett, Freshman, Virginia (Unranked)

How often do you see a true freshman enter the rankings?

Not often?

Rarely?

Almost never?

Well, Barnett is rewriting history.

The Virginia freshman has been consistent since the indoor season and continues to impress. Barnett's lack of national experience doesn’t seem to be hindering her confidence and that is evident from her runner-up finish at the Virginia Challenge (where she was the top collegiate).

On her home track, Barnett stole the show at the collegiate level as she finished the 1500 meters in a blistering time of 4:11, just finishing behind professional and Virginia graduate Michaela Meyer.

She even beat fellow collegiate Emily Mackay, an established indoor star, by two seconds.

This 4:11 finish was a five-second PR for Barnett and it gave her the nation’s leading time prior to Julia Heymach running slightly faster this past weekend at Payton Jordan.

Barnett built off of this performance with a 2:06 mark for 800 meters the following day at the Virginia Challenge and then a 4:34 1600 meter anchor split on UVA's DMR at this past weekend's Penn Relays.

Are we saying that Barnett is now a national title favorite?

Not quite. We still believe that she needs more experience, but an All-American honor shouldn’t be off the table. She races with more poise and conviction than most veterans do, and that is extremely valuable in the postseason.

14. Sarah Hendrick, Junior, Kennesaw State (+4 / 18)

Kennesaw State’s Sarah Hendrick appears to race a lot during the track season. For the fourth weekend in a row, the junior toed the line and picked up her eighth victory of the season in as many races.

Before Penn Relays, Hendrick raced at Georgia Tech, contesting the 800/1500 double. One week after running 2:00.98, she won the 800 meters. Hendrick then held off Georgia Tech’s Nicole Fegans in the 1500 meters, running a one-second PR of 4:15.

This past weekend, Hendrick toed the line in the 1500 meters at Penn Relays. She started out in the middle of the pack through the first 700 meters before making her move towards the front. The Kennesaw State middle distance ace closed in 63 seconds and took the victory over Texas’ Valery Tobias in 4:16.

Hendrick looks like a different runner. She's a strength-based athlete, so it makes sense that she was able to solo insane times and effectively move up in distance. However, what she's doing week in and week out is beyond impressive.

She's building unbelievable consistency, running elite times and has been tactically flawless, earning key wins over some highly established names. That win of Fegans was no joke.

Is this version of Hendrick any different than the version of Hendrick that we saw during the indoor track season? That question will ultimately be answered at the national meet, but right now, Hendrick sure looks like a revamped and refined version of her past self.

And that's likely a scary realization for many of her future opponents.

13. Katy-Ann McDonald, Junior, LSU (0 / 13)

McDonald continues to remain consistent this season. Racing at the LSU Invitational, the veteran used the home track advantage to hold off Baylor’s Aaliyah Miller 2:02.87 to 2:03.32.

This was McDonald’s second win of the season in as many 800 meter races. With the championship portion of the season on the horizon and her already having a 2:00.98 personal best for 800 meters under her belt, there’s no reason as to why McDonald can’t continue to extend her winning streak.

The LSU standout is experienced, but hasn’t always put everything together at the NCAA Championships. Will this be the season where she finds herself amongst the top-eight?

12. Micaela Degenero, Senior, Colorado (-1 / 11)

The 800 meters might not be DeGenero’s marquee event, but that didn’t stop her from running a solid 2:04 mark at the Fresno State Invite over the weekend.

The Colorado NCAA indoor mile champion matched her 800 PR in her runner-up finish to Washington’s Carley Thomas. DeGenero nearly got the win, finishing only behind Thomas by less than half a second.

DeGenero’s time gives her another regional qualifying mark to go along with the 4:15 result for 1500 meters which she recorded at Bryan Clay. The 1500 meters is the stronger event for the senior -- just look at her 4:09 PR -- but that 2:04 mark may be the more encouraging result for DeGenero who continues to show her that speed is going to be a problem for future opponents, especially at the regional meet.

11. Elise Thorner, Sophomore, New Mexico (+5 / 16)

For her second-straight steeplechase effort, New Mexico’s Elise Thorner chopped eight seconds off of her PR. When the Lobo sophomore started the season, she had a 9:52 personal best. Then, at Bryan Clay, she improved upon that mark to a mark of 9:40 via a win.

And then just this past weekend, Thorner ran 9:32 at Payton Jordan.

If she continues with this pattern, could Thorner run 9:24 next time around?

That seems unlikely, but Thorner is excellent example of elite young athletes who boast seemingly endless potential and have a limitless ceiling.

Thorner doesn’t have much experience racing the NCAA’s top steeplechasers, but that hasn't appeared to slow her down as we enter May. She also has some solid 1500 speed, owning a 4:15 personal best, and a good endurance base from cross country.

With the way she’s racing, it wouldn’t be surprising to see Thorner give the likes of Courtney Wayment (BYU), Aneta Konieczek (Oregon) and Ceili McCabe (West Virginia) a run for their money.

New Mexico has a fantastic history of steeple success and right now, it looks like that is being reflected in Thorner's recent performances.

10. Julia Heymach, Senior, Stanford (+5 / 15)

It only took one race for Heymach to take over the 1500 meters on the national leaderboard.

The Stanford senior got the win (amongst collegiates) on her home track at Payton Jordan over the weekend when she ran 4:11 to finish 3rd overall. Even though this time is seven seconds off her 4:04 personal best, it still shows us that Heymach is in a good position to peak as the championship portion of the season nears.

Heymach is clearly an experienced 1500 runner and one of the best to ever do it, but she has also developed a promising 5k resume after finishing 6th place at NCAA Championships last spring in 15:33. Her finishing speed in a handful of 5k races has been awfully impressive.

It seems unlikely that Heymach would stray from the 1500 meters, but it's very possible that she tries the 1500/5k double like she did last year.

Still, at the end of the day, her 1500 meter potential is likely the priority for her and understandably so. With the 5k looking super top-heavy this spring, Heymach's chances of a national title in the metric mile have never been higher.

9. Claire Seymour, Junior, BYU (0 / 9)

Two relays, two 800 splits.

BYU’s 800 meter ace raced in both the DMR and the 4x800 at the Penn Relays. Her splits were 2:05 and 2:03, respectively, two times that continue to show what Seymour can do in the half-mile.

However, the bigger development is the fact that Virginia Tech's Lindsey Butler is out for the season with an injury. So if the outdoor season is anything like the indoor season, then Seymour should be favored for a national title.

8. Imogen Barrett, Junior, Florida (+2 / 10)

So far this season, Florida’s Imogen Barrett has run 2:02, 2:01 and 2:02 for the 800 meters.

Talk about consistency.

Competing at the North Florida Collegiate Invitational, Barrett won her main event in 2:02, more than a second and a half ahead of teammate Gabrielle Wilkinson.

The Florida junior’s resume this outdoor season is trending in the right direction. She has only lost to conference foe Sintayehu Vissa of Ole Miss in the 800 meters when Barrett ran her 2:01 personal best.

Running three elite-caliber 800 meter times this spring is impressive, but the real value in Barrett's ranking is the fact that she has held her own in the metric mile, running 4:14 in the 1500 meters this spring.

Overall, Barrett can do no her wrong and she may be on the best hot streak of anyone in the NCAA this season.

7. Mercy Chelangat, Junior, Alabama (0 / 7)

Has not raced since contesting the 5k at the Mt. SAC Relays.

6. Sintayehu Vissa, Junior, Ole Miss (0 / 6)

At the Penn Relays, Sintayehu Vissa of Ole Miss took part in the DMR and the 4x1500 meter relay.

In the DMR, Vissa ran the fastest split of the day when she anchored her team home with a 4:31 split for 1600 meters. The Rebels weren’t able to catch the BYU women, finishing five-seconds back, but they were four seconds ahead of 3rd place.

Vissa’s 4:31 split is very close to her full mile best if converted.

About 24 hours later, Vissa anchored the Rebels 4x1500 relay with a split of 4:15. The Ole Miss women finished 3rd in the field, running 17:24, finishing less than one second ahead of Indiana.

Vissa bettered her open 1500 meter mark by one second and is in a solid place with the SEC Championships coming up. However, given her success on the indoor oval, Vissa is due for a much faster time than 4:15 this season.

If Vissa doesn't run as fast as she would like to in the 1500 meters this spring, would she consider running the 800 meters in the postseason? With Butler now out, the women's 800 meter title seems open for the taking, something that Vissa could win given her 2:01 personal best which she ran to defeat Imogen Barrett earlier this season.

5. Lauren Gregory, Rs. Junior, Arkansas (0 / 5)

Lauren Gregory of Arkansas didn’t toe the line for an individual event either of the last two weeks, but instead she opted to team up with Krissy Gear, Logan Jolly and Isabel Van Camp to compete in the 4x1500 meter relay at the Penn Relays.

Together, these four women demolished the Penn Relays and collegiate record in the event. Gregory and her teammates ran a remarkable 16:53 with Gregory splitting 4:12 on the third leg, handing the baton off in first to Gear.

A 4:12 split would be a PR for Gregory as she has run 4:15 in the open event. The veteran has been nearly unstoppable this outdoor season, running some of the nation’s top times in the 5k and 10k.

This 1500 split only adds another tool to Gregory’s already expanding toolbox as we enter the championship portion of the season -- something that we admittedly already knew she had.

4. Abby Nichols, Senior, Colorado (0 / 4)

Rather than contesting a third 5k for the season or jumping up in distance to the 10k, Colorado’s Abby Nichols dropped down to the 1500 meters at the Fresno State Invitational.

And you know what? It was a successful business trip.

Nichols just missed out on the win, finishing 2nd to teammate Madie Boreman. The senior crossed the line in 4:14, a solid seven-second PR.

Although she couldn’t take down Boreman, Nichols was able to hold off middle distance specialists Anna Gibson of Washington, Colorado teammate Rachel McArthur and Abbe Goldstein of New Mexico.

The 5k, and hopefully the 10k if she contests it in the upcoming weeks, are better suited for Nichols, at least on paper. So even with this 4:14 performance, it’s unlikely that the Colorado Buffalo will focus on the 1500 during the championship portion of the season.

Still, this is a performance that shouldn’t go unnoticed. Nichols has now developed strong speed that will suit her well in the 5k if it becomes tactical. And given the late-race surges we have seen from Tuohy and Roe, Nichols recent 4:14 mark may have suddenly become the most important result on her resume.

3. Taylor Roe, Junior, Oklahoma State (-1 / 2)

With many of her competitors heading to Penn Relays, Taylor Roe and the Oklahoma State Cowgirls opted for Drake Relays.

With no individual event on tap for Roe, she ran a leg on the 4x800, 4x1600 and DMR.

Opening up the weekend in the 4x1600, the junior split 4:34, leading Oklahoma State to an eight-second victory. When Roe got the baton, she was just barely behind Utah, but then blew the field out of the water.

Running the 4x800 a few hours later, Roe about matched any expectations put on her. The Cowgirl star doesn’t have the most raw speed as her 800 meter personal best is 2:08. On this relay, she nearly matched her PR when she split 2:09.

As for the DMR, Roe brought the baton around the track four times en route to a dominating win for the Cowgirls, winning by 13-seconds. Roe ran an anchor split of 4:36, 11-seconds faster than any other team’s anchor.

These three splits were evidence of Roe’s overall strength as she completed these races in less than 48 hours. Our opinion of Roe hasn't really changed when looking at this trio of results, but all of those middle distances races put together essentially mimic speed-based strength, something that we saw from Roe when she won her 3k national title this past winter.

2. Katelyn Tuohy, Sophomore, NC State (+1 / 3)

Tuohy doesn’t race all that often during the season, but when she does, she makes a statement. A big one.

The sophomore had a brief hiatus from racing between Raleigh Relays (March 24-26) and the Virginia Challenge (April 22-23). With Tuohy not racing, we were speculating about a lot of scenarios.

But then, boom.

Tuohy races the 5k.

She recorded a remarkable time of 15:14, a 16-second PR. And not only was that improvement huge, but she took down the field by eight-seconds.

Did Tuohy just become the national title favorite in the 5k?

We wouldn't argue with you if you said yes.

Tuohy didn’t slow down there as she raced on the 4x1500 meter relay for the Wolfpack at Penn Relays. Tuohy was the anchor for the team, racing against Krissy Gear of Arkansas. She wasn’t able to pull away from Gear over the course of the race, finishing two seconds behind, but she put up a good fight as she made up a 15 meter difference.

Tuohy is flat-out incredible. She has delivered on every expectation we have had for her and then some -- all as a sophomore. There are plenty of women who can considered as the "ace" of their teams, but Tuohy deserves to be in a different category right now.

1. Courtney Wayment, Rs. Senior, BYU (0 / 1)

Flying across the country from Utah to Pennsylvania, BYU’s Courtney Wayment aided in bringing home a Penn Relays wheel for the Cougars in the DMR.

Before Wayment got the baton as the anchor, her teammates, Lauren Ellsworth-Barnes, Alena Ellsworth and Claire Seymour, kept the BYU women in the lead each passing lap. When she did get the baton, Wayment already had a six-second lead on the field. This lead would go on to shrink by only one second over the course of the 1600 meters.

Wayment closed in 4:32 for 1600 meters as the Cougars recorded a finishing time of 10:50, a new school record and No. 3 time in Penn Relays history.

This was a solid performance as Wayment gears up for the championship portion of the season where she will surely focus on the steeplechase and maybe one other event. The redshirt senior has already recorded a 4:12 mark for 1500 meters this season and is the reigning indoor 5k champion.

The 1500 and steeplechase are run back-to-back, so the 5k would be our guess if Wayment was going to pursue a double in addition to the steeplechase.

KICKED OFF

Kelsey Chmiel (NC State)*

Lindsey Butler (Virginia Tech)*

Joyce Kimeli (Auburn)

Samantha Bush (NC State)

Amelia Mazza-Downie (New Mexico)

ADDED

Amelia Mazza-Downie (New Mexico)

Aneta Konieczek (Oregon)

Mia Barnett (Virginia)

Ceili McCabe (West Virginia)

Adva Cohen (New Mexico)

JUST MISSED (in no particular order)

Joyce Kimeli (Auburn)

Samantha Bush (NC State)

Amelia Mazza-Downie (New Mexico)

Grace Fetherstonhaugh (Oregon State)

Ellie Leather (Cincinnati)

Anna Gibson (Washington)

Olivia Howell (Illinois)

Rachel McArthur (Colorado)

Sydney Seymour (Tennessee)

Greta Karinauskaite (California Baptist)

Nicole Fegans (Georgia Tech)

Grace Forbes (Rice)

Logan Jolly (Arkansas)

Kayley DeLay (Yale)

Lucy Jenks (Stanford)

Emma Heckel (New Mexico)

Lydia Olivere (Villanova)

Valery Tobias (Texas)

Brooke Jaworski (Texas)

Kaylee Mitchell (Oregon State)

Gabija Galvydyte (Oklahoma State)

Emily Covert (Colorado)

Eusila Chepkemei (Middle Tennessee State)

Madison Boreman (Colorado)

Alexandra Hays (NC State)

Avi'Tal Wilson-Perteete (Texas A&M)

Michaela Rose (LSU)

Melissa Riggins (Georgetown)

Victoria Tachinski (Penn State)

Gabrielle Wilkinson (Florida)

Gracelyn Larkin (New Mexico)

Cara Woolnough (Utah)

Maggie Donahue (Georgetown)

Gracie Morris (TCU)

Christina Aragon (Stanford)

Izzy Thornton-Bott (Oregon)

Haley Herberg (Washington)

Allie Schadler (Washington)

Alissa Niggemann (Wisconsin)

HONORABLE MENTIONS ( in no particular order)

Bethany Hasz (Minnesota)

Alexa Hokanson (Grand Canyon)

Jenna Schwinghamer (Kentucky)

Aurora Rydna (Michigan)

Kassidy Johnson (Kansas State)

Maudie Skyring (Florida State)

Hannah Steelman (NC State)

Ruby Stauber (Florida State)

Bailey Hertenstein (Indiana)

Kayla Johnson (Miami)

Savannah Shaw (NC State)

Dominique Clairmonte (NC State)

Hannah Branch (Utah Valley)

India Johnson (Colorado)

Kayla Windemueller (Michigan)

Abbe Goldstein (New Mexico)

Kate Hunter (BYU)

Isabel Van Camp (Arkansas)

Aziza Ayoub (Ohio State)

Aaliyah Miller (Baylor)

Dorcus Ewoi (Campbell)

Carley Thomas (Washington)

Carmen Riano (Miami (OH))

Tori Herman (Kentucky)

Laura Pellicoro (Portland)

Jesse Hanson (Northern Arizona)

Emily Venters (Utah)

Evelyn Kemboi (Utah Valley)

Madison Heisterman (Washington)

Carmen Alder (BYU)

Lexy Halladay (BYU)

Kayla Schiera (Southern Illinois)

Sydney Steely (Mississippi State)

Madaline Ulom (Penn State)

Megan Marvin (Furman)

Notes

• Kelsey Chmiel of NC State has been removed from the rankings due to not racing yet this season.

• Lindsey Butler of Virginia Tech has been removed from the rankings after it has been confirmed that she is recovering from a stress fracture.