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Women’s Golf Up Three Spots in WGCA Poll

Titans climb to No. 15

10/23/2026 12:55:00 PM

FRISCO, Texas - The Women's Golf Coaches Association released the second of three Fall Coaches Poll, Oct. 23, with the Illinois Wesleyan University women's golf team slotted No. 15 with 236 points. The Titans jumped three spots after its win at the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Championship and two more top-four finishes.

The Green and White enjoyed a successful month since the last ranking, winning its fifth straight CCIW Championship, Oct. 1-3, along with the league's bid to the 2027 NCAA Division III National Championship in May. At the 54-hole championship, junior Grace Fagan (Kirkwood, Mo.-Visitation Academy) took home medalist honors, highlighted by a one-under 70 for a 218 total.

Fall season also saw IWU compete at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater where it placed second out of 17 teams. Working their way around a tough TPC Wisconsin course, freshman Natalie Ocheltree (Normal, Ill.-University) and senior Nora Cerroni (Waukesha, Wis.-Waukesha North) fired 36-hole totals of 155. Illinois Wesleyan placed five Titans inside the top-16 at the invite.

The Titans followed up the win with a fourth-place finish at the Golfweek October Classic in Sandestin, Fla. Illinois Wesleyan sat in seventh place after the first and second rounds before a final round 305 surged IWU up the leaderboard to take fourth. Ocheltree recorded her fourth top-10 finish with a 228, completed with an opening round of 78 and closed with consecutive 75's.

Emory stayed at the top of the poll, taking all 23 first-place nods for 550 total points. NYU jumped Carnegie Mellon with 525 points to sit No. 2. CMU followed in third with 495 points while WashU and Middlebury rounded out the top-five with 431 and 424 points, respectively.

The final fall WGCA Coaches Poll is set to be released Nov. 13. With the fall schedule complete, the Green and White turn its attention to the spring slate, which begins in March 2027.

DIVISION III WGCA COACHES POLL
1 Emory University (23) 550
2 New York University 525
3 Carnegie Mellon University 495
4 Washington University in St. Louis 431
5 Middlebury College 424
6 Williams College 410
7 University of Mary Hardin-Baylor 362
8 Amherst College 353
9 Bowdoin College 352
10 Pomona-Pitzer 310
11 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges 309
12 Randolph-Macon College 302
13 Hamilton College 292
14 Washington and Lee University 285
15 Illinois Wesleyan University 236
T16 Trinity University – Texas 190
T16 Wellesley College 190
18 University of California, Santa Cruz 180
19 Wesleyan University 145
20 Huntingdon College 132
21 University of the South 128
22 Babson College 120
23 Grinnell College 116
24 Macalester College 67
25 George Fox University 63

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