MARLBOROUGH, Mass.—The Babson College women's cross country team was picked to finish sixth in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) pre-championship coaches' poll, which was released on Friday.
No. 2 MIT, which has won the last 17 conference championships, was picked to repeat again after collecting 11 of 12 first-place votes and earning 121 points. Defending runner-up Coast Guard received the remaining top vote and finished second with 110 points, while Wellesley (99), Smith (86), Springfield (79), and Babson (68) round out the top half of the 12-team field. The Beavers were picked 10th in the preseason coaches' poll a year ago and finished seventh at the conference championships.
Led by 22nd-year head coach
Russ Brennen, the Green and White has posted top-five results in two of the four races they've competed in this fall. They were fifth out of 18 schools in the Suffolk Short Course Classic at Highland Park in Attleboro to open the season back on August 30 and placed third out of 12 teams at the Hopkinton (N.H.) XC Festival on October 10. The Beavers finished 13th out of 42 programs at last week's Connecticut College Invitational White race and cracked the USTFCCCA East Region rankings at No. 10 for the first time in school history on Tuesday.
The NEWMAC Championship 6K race is slated for Saturday, November 1, at Highland Park in Attleboro, Mass., beginning at 12 p.m.
2025 NEWMAC Women's Cross Country Pre-Championship Coaches' Poll
| Rank |
School (first-place votes) |
|
| 1 |
MIT (11) |
121 |
| 2 |
Coast Guard (1) |
110 |
| 3 |
Wellesley |
99 |
| 4 |
Smith |
86 |
| 5 |
Springfield |
79 |
| 6 |
Babson |
68 |
| 7 |
WPI |
66 |
| 8 |
Wheaton |
49 |
| 9 |
Salve Regina |
41 |
| 10 |
Mount Holyoke |
37 |
| T-11. |
Clark |
18 |
| T-11. |
Emerson |
18 |
