Kansas City, Mo. - The Central Methodist Volleyball program moved two spots to No. 21 in the latest NAIA Women's Volleyball Coaches' Top 25 poll, which was announced by the national office Wednesday.
CMU is one of two Heart programs featured in the Top 25, with the other being No. 7 Park University.
CMU currently sits at 18-7 overall and 12-3 in the Heart of America Athletic Conference. In the month of October, Central has posted a 7-1 record, with six of their seven wins coming via three-set sweeps.
The Eagles are featured in several top five leaderboards in the Heart of America Athletic Conference. Senior Delaney Miller is ranked first in the Heart in hitting percentage at .383. Fellow teammates Callie Henson (.335) and Annabelle Maassen (.320) are ranked third and fifth in the same category.
Senior libero Krystal Brauner is No. 1 in the conference in digs/set at 5.16, while Henson is tied for third in kills/set (3.11).
On the national stage, the Eagles are fifth in the country in hitting percentage at .266
Central will next travel to Benedictine College to face the Ravens Friday, Oct. 27 at 7:00 p.m. in Atchison.
To view the poll methodology and the compete Top 25 poll, please see below.
Rating Methodology
- The rating was rated by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences/Continental Athletic Conference (Independents)/unaffiliated groups.
- The Coaches Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each voter ranks the best teams. A team receives 30 points for each first-place vote, 29 for second place and so on through the list.
- The highest and lowest ranking for each team (a non-rating is considered a low rating) is removed and the team's ranking will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that the teams appear on.
- Teams that receive only one point on the ballot are not considered "receiving votes"
- For the complete women's volleyball ratings calendar, CLICK HERE.
| RANK | LAST TIME | SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | RECORD | POINTS |
| 1 | 2 | Indiana Wesleyan [10] | 26-0 | 546 |
| 1 | 3 | Northwestern (Iowa) [8] | 20-2 | 546 |
| 3 | 3 | Eastern Oregon [2] | 24-1 | 529 |
| 4 | 1 | Concordia (Neb.) | 18-2 | 501 |
| 5 | 5 | Viterbo (Wis.) | 25-3 | 497 |
| 6 | 6 | Corban (Ore.) | 23-3 | 467 |
| 7 | 8 | Park (Mo.) | 24-2 | 446 |
| 8 | 9 | College of Saint Mary (Neb.) | 21-5 | 429 |
| 9 | 7 | Missouri Baptist | 19-4 | 423 |
| 10 | 10 | Montana Tech | 19-3 | 392 |
| 11 | 11 | Vanguard (Calif.) | 22-1 | 384 |
| 12 | 12 | Jamestown (N.D.) | 19-7 | 362 |
| 13 | 14 | Texas Wesleyan | 21-3 | 340 |
| 14 | 15 | IU Kokomo (Ind.) | 24-3 | 323 |
| 15 | 13 | Columbia (Mo.) | 22-6 | 290 |
| 16 | 16 | Southern Oregon | 21-5 | 263 |
| 17 | 20 | Bethel (Ind.) | 23-4 | 249 |
| 18 | 17 | Midland (Neb.) | 12-9 | 239 |
| 19 | 22 | Saint Katherine (Calif.) | 24-2 | 236 |
| 20 | 18 | Bellevue (Neb.) | 19-8 | 224 |
| 21 | 19 | Central Methodist (Mo.) | 17-7 | 220 |
| 22 | 23 | St. Thomas (Fla.) | 19-2 | 185 |
| 23 | 25 | Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio) | 25-6 | 155 |
| 24 | 24 | SAGU (Texas) | 18-6 | 154 |
| 25 | 21 | Ottawa (Kan.) | 17-9 | 125 |
Dropped from the Top 25: none
Receiving Votes: Indiana Tech 96, Montana Western 65, Valley City State (N.D.) 60, Blue Mountain Christian (Miss.) 39, CIU (S.C.) 32, Judson (Ill.) 29, Kansas Wesleyan 24, Morningside (Iowa) 11, Loyola (La.) 9, Indiana East (Ind.) 8, Marian (Ind.) 7, Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 6, Oklahoma Wesleyan 6
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