Endless Pools Division III - Hopkins Hops to Top

The top spots of the Endless Pools / CollegeSwimming.com Division III Top 25 have new occupants in the top spot.  Johns Hopkins University has moved to the top spot of both rankings following their performance at Rutgers' Frank Elm Invitational.  Each got their a different way.  The JHU women used star power in the form of Anastasia Bogdanovski and  Taylor Kitayama to move past Kenyon and Emory while the Bluejay men saw nine guys contribute to their score which accounts for a team's top twenty-seven swims each week. 

That's not to say the rest of Division III was idle.  Kenyon College sent limited squads to Northwestern.  The meet provided some of the nation's fastest times and kept the Lords and Ladies in the top two.  After that the rankings take different paths with Emory, Denison and Chicago rounding out the top five on the women's side while MIT, Chicago and Emory rank third, fourth and fifth for the men. 

Hopkins' position atop the rankings could prove short-lived however as the traditional powers of Division III take aim at major mid-season invitationals after Thanksgiving.  Kenyon will host its own Total Performance Invitational while Denison and Emory will head to the respective Miami (OH) and Georgia Invitationals.

Points for the Endless Pools / CollegeSwimming.com Top 25 are calculated using the average percentile rank of each team's top twenty-seven in each meet.  The Top 25 are ranked according on the basis of each team's highest-scoring meet within the previous three weeks.

Division III - Women

Pos	Prev	Team	@ Meet	Points
1	4	Johns Hopkins	Frank Elm Invite	22.3
2	3	Kenyon	Northwestern TYR Invitational	22.4
3	1	Emory	Florida State vs. Emory	25.9
4	2	Denison	Ohio State vs. Denison	34.2
5	7	Chicago	University of Chicago Invitational	35.5
6	5	MIT	MIT vs. Babson, Bowdoin	44.6
7	9	Wheaton IL	University of Chicago Invitational	50.9
8	6	Saint Olaf	Saint Olaf vs. Gustavus Adolphus	51.2
9	8	Washington (Mo)	Washington University vs. Chicago	52.9
10	11	Carnegie Mellon	Carnegie Mellon Invite	53.0
11	24	Trinity (TX)	Tiger Southwest Shootout	53.2
12	13	Keene State College	Keene State vs. Tufts	54.9
13	NR	Amherst	Amherst vs. Colby	55.0
14	10	TCNJ	Princeton Invitational	55.2
15	12	Rhode Island College	Rhode Island vs. Coast Guard, Springfield	56.9
16	14	UW-La Crosse	UW-La Crosse vs. UW-Eau Claire	59.5
17	NR	Sewanee	Western Kentucky Invite	59.9
18	NR	Connecticut College	Connecticut vs. Tufts, Middlebury	59.9
19	18	Carthage	Woehnker Invitational	60.4
20	15	Stevens Institute	New York Univesity Fall Invite	60.8
21	16	Gustavus Adolphus	Saint Olaf vs. Gustavus Adolphus	61.3
22	21	De Pauw	Woehnker Invitational	61.9
23	17	Calvin College	Wheaton (IL) vs. Calvin	62.3
24	25	Grove City	Kenyon vs. Grove, Gannon, Case Western	63.1
25	19	Rochester	Rochester vs. Union	63.5

Division III - Men

Pos	Prev	Team	@ Meet	Points
1	3	Johns Hopkins	Frank Elm Invite	26.2
2	1	Kenyon	Northwestern TYR Invitational	29.0
3	5	MIT	MIT vs. Babson, Bowdoin	29.5
4	15	Chicago	University of Chicago Invitational	31.1
5	2	Emory	Florida State vs. Emory	34.4
6	4	Denison	Denison vs. Kenyon	36.3
7	6	Stevens Institute	New York Univesity Fall Invite	48.7
8	NR	Carnegie Mellon	Carnegie Mellon Invite	50.0
9	7	CMS	UC-San Diego vs. C-M-S	50.6
10	8	TCNJ	TCNJ vs. New York	52.4
11	10	De Pauw	Wabash vs. De Pauw	54.3
12	NR	Amherst	Amherst vs. Colby	54.8
13	11	Case Western	UAA Invitational	55.5
14	12	Saint Olaf	Saint Olaf vs. Gustavus Adolphus	57.3
15	13	UW-Stevens Point	Border War Invite	58.2
16	14	Washington &  Lee	Wingate Quad	59.5
17	20	Keene State College	Keene State vs. Tufts	62.1
18	16	Rochester	Rochester vs. Union	63.6
19	NR	Hartwick College	Hamilton vs. Ithaca, Harwick, SUNY-Geneseo	64.2
20	NR	Wheaton IL	University of Chicago Invitational	64.3
21	NR	Connecticut College	Connecticut vs. Tufts, Middlebury	65.9
22	NR	Southwestern	Tiger Southwest Shootout	66.9
23	17	Washington (Mo)	Washington University vs. Chicago	67.9
24	18	Saint Thomas-MN	Saint Thomas vs. Carleton	68.0
25	NR	Ithaca College	Hamilton vs. Ithaca, Harwick, SUNY-Geneseo	68.4