The National Collegiate Women's Varsity Rugby Association (NCWVRA) has released its latest Coaches Poll, a ranking of varsity programs that are also eligible for the first-ever varsity championship. Only those coaches whose programs are championship-eligible were surveyed.
The nine coaches ranked the teams 1 through 9. First place affords 10 points, second place nine points, etc., and a team's "score" is the average of those nine rankings. The final poll will determine the quarterfinal match-ups, set to take place on Nov. 14 at the higher seed's home field. The semifinals will be contested on Nov. 20, and the final on Nov. 22 at Brown University.
| NCWVRA Coaches Poll – Nov. 2, 2015 | ||||
| RANK | TEAM | RECORD * | PD | SCORE |
| 1 | Quinnipiac | 5-1 | 149 | 9.89 |
| 2 | Army | 5-1 | 81 | 9.11 |
| 3 | AIC | 3-4 | 216 | 7.33 |
| 4 | Norwich | 2-4 | -7 | 6.78 |
| 5 | Dartmouth | 2-1 | -35 | 5.75 |
| 6 | Brown | 1-2 | -22 | 5.44 |
| 7 | Harvard | 1-2 | -26 | 4.33 |
| 8 | West Chester | 0-1 | -6 | 3.00 |
| 9 | Sacred Heart | 0-4 | -445 | 2.00 |
Record = Only games against championship-eligible teams are reflected
* Notre Dame College was recently deemed ineligible for the varsity championship, so the conference records have been adjusted.
PD = Point differential
Coaches polled: Rebecca Carlson (Quinnipiac), Tony DeRemer (West Chester), Katie Dowty (Dartmouth), Dimitri Efthimiou (AIC), Kathy Flores (Brown), Austin Hall (Norwich), Bill LeClerc (Army), Sue Parker (Harvard), Michelle Reed (Sacred Heart)
