Adams State University, the defending NCAA Division II women’s national champion, is picked to win the 2025 RMAC women’s cross country championship in a poll of the league’s 15 head coaches released Thursday.

The Grizzlies received 13 of the possible 14 first-place votes – coaches were not permitted to vote for their team – and finished with 195 of a maximum 196 points. Colorado School of Mines was picked second in the poll with 170 points.

Colorado State University Pueblo nabbed one of the remaining first-place votes and is third in the poll with 160 points. Western Colorado picked up the remaining first-place vote and is tied for fourth place with the University of Colorado Colorado Springs at 156 points.

Fort Lewis College (122 points), Colorado Mesa University (113 points) and Colorado Christian University (112) points are tightly packed at sixth, seventh, and eighth, respectively.

Metropolitan State University of Denver (89) and Black Hills State University (87) are picked ninth and tenth, respectively, ahead of South Dakota Mines (59), Chadron State College (55), New Mexico Highlands University (45), Regis University (40), and Westminster (16).

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