Top Five Unchanged in Steady Second Poll of the 2026 NAIA Women’s Tennis Season
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Keiser (Fla.) remained a unanimous No. 1 in the second regular-season edition of the NAIA Women’s Tennis Coaches’ Top 25 Poll, 10 points ahead of No. 2 Lindsey Wilson (Ky.), one of five top-five teams that remained unchanged this week.
This week’s steadiness comes after considerable shakeup in the first regular-season poll, released on Feb. 11. No teams moved more than two places in this week’s poll, and Marian (Ind.) is the only team to enter the top 10, at No. 10, replacing Holy Cross (Ind.), falling to No. 11.
The next women’s tennis poll is slated for March 11.
| Rank |
Last Time |
Trend |
|
Institution [First-Place Votes] |
Points |
| 1 |
1 |
● |
|
Keiser (Fla.) [12] |
300 |
| 2 |
2 |
● |
|
Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) |
290 |
| 3 |
3 |
● |
|
Tennessee Wesleyan |
280 |
| 4 |
4 |
● |
|
Southeastern (Fla.) |
270 |
| 5 |
5 |
● |
|
William Carey (Miss.) |
260 |
| 6 |
7 |
▲ |
|
Xavier (La.) |
238 |
| 7 |
6 |
▼ |
|
SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) |
237 |
| 8 |
8 |
● |
|
Loyola (La.) |
227 |
| 9 |
10 |
▲ |
|
LSU Alexandria (La.) |
216 |
| 10 |
T-11 |
▲ |
|
Marian (Ind.) |
208 |
| 11 |
9 |
▼ |
|
Holy Cross (Ind.) |
207 |
| 12 |
T-11 |
▼ |
|
SCAD Savannah (Ga.) |
199 |
| 13 |
14 |
▲ |
|
Cumberlands (Ky.) |
180 |
| 14 |
13 |
▼ |
|
Georgia Gwinnett (Ga.) |
167 |
| 15 |
15 |
● |
|
St. Thomas (Fla.) |
152 |
| 16 |
16 |
● |
|
Dillard (La.) |
148 |
| 17 |
17 |
● |
|
Our Lady of the Lake (Texas) |
132 |
| 18 |
18 |
● |
|
Louisiana Christian |
121 |
| 19 |
20 |
▲ |
|
William Woods (Mo.) |
115 |
| 20 |
21 |
▲ |
|
Morningside (Iowa) |
109 |
| 21 |
19 |
▼ |
|
Indiana Wesleyan |
97 |
| 22 |
23 |
▲ |
|
Cumberland (Tenn.) |
85 |
| 23 |
24 |
▲ |
|
Bethel (Ind.) |
72 |
| 24 |
22 |
▼ |
|
Oakland City (Ind.) |
71 |
| 25 |
25 |
● |
|
LSU Shreveport (La.) |
54 |
Receiving Votes: Texas A&M-Texarkana 36, Bethel (Kan.) 31, Bethel (Tenn.) 24, McPherson (Kan.) 21, Stanton (Calif.) 17, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 14, Missouri Baptist 11, Mobile (Ala.) 11, Grace (Ind.) 10, Huntington (Ind.) 4.
Key: Steady●| Climbed ▲ | Dropped ▼
Poll Methodology
- The national poll is for publicity purposes only and does not influence the selection process for national championship consideration.
- A panel of head coaches representing each conference and the Continental Athletic Conference (Independents) votes in the poll.
- The Top 25 teams are selected using a points-based system:
- 30 points for a 1st-place vote, 29 for 2nd, 28 for 3rd, and so on.
- The highest and lowest rankings received by each team are discarded before final tallying.
- Teams receiving only one point are not listed as “receiving votes.”
- For the Preseason Poll, there is no “previous ranking” column since it is the initial poll and differs from the prior rating system.
<table class="table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Rank</th>
<th>University</th>
<th>Points</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>1</td><td>Oklahoma Wesleyan University (Okla.)</td><td>504</td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td><td>MidAmerica Nazarene University (Kan.)</td><td>485</td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td><td>Keiser University (Fla.)</td><td>456</td></tr>
<tr><td>4</td><td>Bethel University (Ind.)</td><td>455</td></tr>
<tr><td>5</td><td>Lindsey Wilson University (Ky.)</td><td>407</td></tr>
<tr><td>6</td><td>University of the Cumberlands (Ky.)</td><td>397</td></tr>
<tr><td>7</td><td>Louisiana State University Shreveport (La.)</td><td>374</td></tr>
<tr><td>8</td><td>Indiana Wesleyan University (Ind.)</td><td>364</td></tr>
<tr><td>9</td><td>William Carey University (Miss.)</td><td>354</td></tr>
<tr><td>10</td><td>Life University (Ga.)</td><td>351</td></tr>
<tr><td>11</td><td>Cumberland University (Tenn.)</td><td>318</td></tr>
<tr><td>12</td><td>Georgia Gwinnett College (Ga.)</td><td>317</td></tr>
<tr><td>13</td><td>Grand View University (Iowa)</td><td>281</td></tr>
<tr><td>14</td><td>Bethel University (Tenn.)</td><td>270</td></tr>
<tr><td>15</td><td>Madonna University (Mich.)</td><td>262</td></tr>
<tr><td>16</td><td>William Penn University (Iowa)</td><td>244</td></tr>
<tr><td>17</td><td>Indiana Tech (Ind.)</td><td>229</td></tr>
<tr><td>18</td><td>West Virginia University Institute of Technology (W.Va.)</td><td>215</td></tr>
<tr><td>19</td><td>Dalton State College (Ga.)</td><td>167</td></tr>
<tr><td>20</td><td>Grace College (Ind.)</td><td>147</td></tr>
<tr><td>21</td><td>Ottawa University (Kan.)</td><td>118</td></tr>
<tr><td>22</td><td>Xavier University (La.)</td><td>108</td></tr>
<tr><td>23</td><td>Eastern Oregon University (Ore.)</td><td>89</td></tr>
<tr><td>24</td><td>Olivet Nazarene University (Ill.)</td><td>75</td></tr>
<tr><td>25</td><td>University of Northwestern Ohio (Ohio)</td><td>74</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
