The No. 1 teams in the first spring 2026 Mizuno WGCA Coaches Polls

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The No. 1 teams in the first spring 2026 Mizuno WGCA Coaches Polls

The Women's Golf Coaches Association has released the most recent Mizuno WGCA Coaches Poll for women's college golf. This is the first poll (originally released on Feb. 26) of the spring 2026 season.

Stanford remains the unanimous No. 1 in Div. I after winning their first two events of the spring at the Arizona Thunderbird Intercollegiate and the Bruin Wave Invitational. USC holds steady at No. 2 after winning the Alice and John Wallace Women’s Golf Classic. Texas A&M moves up to No. 3 after a runner-up finish at the Moon Golf Invitational. Oregon sits at No. 4 after finishing second at the Chevron Collegiate. Auburn is now No. 5 after winning the UCF Challenge and the Moon Golf Invitational.

Div. I Mizuno WGCA coaches poll

Rank	Team	Points
1	Stanford	450
2	USC	430
3	Texas A&M	403
4	Oregon	400
5	Auburn	387
6	Arkansas	344
7	Wake Forest	337
8	Florida	334
9	Texas	286
10	Pepperdine	284
11	UCLA	238
12	Vanderbilt	237
13	Duke	226
14	North Carolina	214
15	Mississippi State	206
16	Mississippi	202
17	Central Florida	161
18	Baylor	144
19	South Carolina	119
20	Tennessee	106
21	Northwestern	96
22	Arizona State	68
23	Arizona	59
24	Florida State	19
25	Oklahoma	15

Other receiving votes: Missouri (15); Iowa State (14); Eastern Michigan (10); Kent State (6); SMU (3); Kansas State (2); Oklahoma State (2).

Div. II Mizuno WGCA coaches poll

Wingate holds on to the top spot in Division II after receiving 11 first-place votes and securing a win at the Battle at Hilton Head. Dallas Baptist received two first-place votes to remain at No. 2, following a win at the Women’s Rattler Invitational. Anderson is No. 3, Findlay is No. 4 and Grand Valley State is No. 5.

Rank	Team	Points
1	Wingate	323
2	Dallas Baptist	311
3	Anderson	295
4	Findlay	289
5	Grand Valley State	262
6	Texas at Tyler	245
7	North Georgia	239
8	Lander	217
9	Lynn	214
10	Flagler	213
11	Nova Southeastern	195
T12	Lee	171
T12	Florida Southern	171
14	Barry	168
15	Cal State San Marcos	151
16	Indianapolis	141
17	Tampa	120
18	St. Mary’s Texas	111
19	Eckerd College	71
20	Rollins College	65
21	Saint Leo	64
22	Erskine College	52
23	Lincoln Memorial	38
24	Midwestern State	35
25	Ferris State	21

Other receiving votes: Missouri – St. Louis (15); Colorado State Pueblo (11); West Texas A&M (6); Rogers State (4); West Florida (3); Central Missouri (3); Point Loma Nazarene (1).

Div. III Mizuno WGCA coaches poll

Emory received 17 first-place votes to claim the No. 1 spot, after a fifth-place finish at the Space Coast Classic presented by MoonGolf. Carnegie Mellon received three first-place votes to come in closely behind at No. 2, following a runner-up finish at the Centre College Classic. New York University received one first-place vote, holding steady at No. 3. Pomona-Pitzer climbs to No. 4, after winning their first two events in the Spring (West Coast Classic and SCIAC #1). Williams College sits at No. 5 in the poll.

Rank	Team	Points
1	Emory	520
2	Carnegie Mellon	502
3	New York	457
4	Pomona-Pitzer	442
5	Williams College	426
6	Washington in St. Louis	424
7	Amherst College	394
8	Wellesley College	348
9	Wesleyan	341
10	Randolph-Macon College	325
11	Washington and Lee	285
12	Middlebury College	276
13	Hamilton College	257
14	Carleton College	241
15	Redlands	229
16	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges	214
17	Bowdoin College	194
18	Denison	168
19	Trinity (Texas)	155
20	Mary Hardin-Baylor	145
21	Grinnell College	137
22	Illinois Wesleyan	78
23	Babson College	75
24	Huntingdon College	59
25	the South	52

Others receiving votes: DePauw (20); Methodist (18); Piedmont (17); California Lutheran (15); Macalester College (5); Wisconsin-Stout (4); California-Santa Cruz (2)

NAIA Mizuno WGCA coaches poll

The top three in NAIA are unchanged, with Keiser the unanimous No. 1, Dalton State College at No. 2 and Marian University in the No. 3 spot.

Rank	Team	Points
1	Keiser	100
2	Dalton State College	90
3	Marian	78
4	SCAD Atlanta	72
5	SCAD Savannah	60
6	Indiana Wesleyan	50
7	William Carey	38
8	the Cumberlands	29
9	Loyola	20
10	Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical	13

About the Women’s Golf Coaches Association

The Women’s Golf Coaches Association, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women’s 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.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: 2026 Mizuno WGCA Coaches Polls have Stanford, Wingate, Emory at No. 1