SUWANEE, Ga. - For
the first time since joining the league in 2007, Colorado College
was selected as the preseason favorite to win the Southern
Collegiate Athletic Conference volleyball championship in 2010.
The Tigers were tabbed as the preseason favorite to win the
SCAC title just ahead of Trinity University. In the annual
preseason vote by the league's head coaches, Colorado
College tallied seven of 12 first place votes and received
126 points to headline the poll.
Head coach Rick Swan and his Tigers finished 2009 with a 35-5
overall record and 12-2 mark in SCAC play and lost a 3-1 decision
to Washington (Mo.) in the Division III national quarterfinals.
Colorado College is ranked fifth in the 2010 AVCA Division III
Coaches Top 25 preseason poll.
Trinity University closely followed Colorado
College and checked in at No. 2 in the preaseason poll for the
second straight year. The Tigers garnered 120 points and three of
12 first place votes. Trinity, who is 12th in the 2010 AVCA
Division III Coaches Top 25 preseason poll, bowed out of the
Division III national quarterfinals with a 3-0 loss to Juniata.
Defending SCAC champion, Southwestern
University (111 points, two first place vote), was the
only other team to receive first place votes and
checked into the poll in third place. The Pirates are ranked
16th in the 2010 AVCA Division III Coaches Top 25 preseason
poll.
DePauw University and
Austin College tallied 96 and 83
points to finish fourth and fifth respectively.
Centre College rounds out the top six with 65
points.
Rounding out the 2010 predicted order of finish: Millsaps
College was tabbed seventh with 56 points and
Rhodes College was just behind in eighth place,
picking up 55 points. Hendrix College followed
with 35 points while Oglethorpe University (10th,
33 points) and Sewanee: University of the South
(11th, 12 points) complete the poll.
| 2010 SCAC Predicted Order of Finish | ||||
| 2009 Record Conf. / Overall |
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| No. of votes | ||||
| 1 | Colorado College Tigers | 126 (7) | 12-2 | 35-5 |
| 2 | Trinity University Tigers | 120 (3) | 11-4 | 30-12 |
| 3 | Southwestern University Pirates | 111 (2) | 14-0 | 35-4 |
| 4 | DePauw University Tigers | 96 | 11-3 | 28-9 |
| 5 | Austin College Kangaroos | 83 | 9-6 | 28-12 |
| 6 | Centre College Colonels | 65 | 7-8 | 21-15 |
| 7 | Millsaps College Majors | 56 | 5-9 | 17-17 |
| 8 | Rhodes College Lynx | 55 | 5-10 | 14-25 |
| 9 | Hendrix College Warriors | 35 | 4-11 | 12-25 |
| 10 | Oglethorpe University Stormy Petrels | 33 | 2-12 | 17-22 |
| 11 | Sewanee: University of the South Tigers | 12 | 0-15 | 3-29 |
| *Birimingham-Southern, a Division III provisional
member, was not considered in the pre-season conference rankings. Note: First-place votes (in parentheses) are worth eleven points, second-place worth ten, on down to eleventh-place votes being worth one. |
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