High Point Voted 2021 Preseason Women's Cross Country Favorite
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (www.BigSouthSports.com) – Four-time defending Big South women’s cross country champion High Point University has been voted the favorite in the conference’s annual preseason poll by the league’s head coaches, the conference office announced Monday.
The Panthers received nine of the 12 first-place votes and 139 total points to claim the top spot for the fourth consecutive season. Campbell received two first-place votes and 128 points to finish second in the poll, while Radford was third with 121 points and collected the remaining first-place vote.
Charleston Southern finished fourth in the voting with 97 points, ahead of UNC Asheville, which placed fifth in the poll with 92 points. USC Upstate claimed sixth-place with 80 points, followed by Winthrop in seventh with 75 points and new Big South member North Carolina A&T in the eighth position (53 points). Longwood landed in ninth (44 points), followed by Gardner-Webb (10th, 43 points), Hampton (11th, 33 points) and Presbyterian College (12th, 31 points).
The women’s cross country season begins Wednesday, Sept. 1. The 2021 Big South Women’s Cross Country Championship is slated for Friday, Oct. 29, in Kernersville, N.C., and will be hosted by High Point University.
2021 BIG SOUTH PRESEASON WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY POLL
| Rk - School (first-place votes) |
Points |
| 1 - High Point (9) |
139 |
| 2 - Campbell (2) |
128 |
| 3 - Radford (1) |
121 |
| 4 - Charleston Southern |
97 |
| 5 - UNC Asheville |
92 |
| 6 - USC Upstate |
80 |
| 7 - Winthrop |
75 |
| 8 - North Carolina A&T |
53 |
| 9 - Longwood |
44 |
| 10 - Gardner-Webb |
43 |
| 11 - Hampton |
33 |
| 12 - Presbyterian College |
31 |
Note: points are based on a weighted system, with first-place votes receiving 12 points, followed by 11 points for second-place, and so on.