INDIANAPOLIS – The Lewis University women's cross country team was voted as the top choice in the preseason coaches' poll to win the 2024 Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) women's cross country title, the league office announced on Friday (August 23). The preseason poll is selected by the league's head coaches, who, per GLVC Bylaws, are not permitted to vote for their own team.

The Flyers received 196 total points to go along with fourteen first place votes. Lewis returns six all-GLVC runners this season in Hannah Smrcka (Cory, Penn.), Caroline Pacer-Ryan (Wheaton, IL/West Chicago), Anna Kozak (Lockport, IL/Lockport Township), Kate Guderjan (Frankfort, IL/Lincolnway East), Naylah Allen (Oswego, Ill./Oswego East), and Madilyn Calloway (Rochester, IN/Rochester Community).

FULL POLL BELOW
Rank     School                                Points (1st-place votes)
1.           Lewis                                   196 (14)
2.           Southwest Baptist               167
3.           Drury                                   163
4.           Truman State                      151 (1)
5.           Indianapolis                        150
6.           Illinois Springfield               141
7.           Missouri S&T                      119      
8.           Maryville                             97
9.           Missouri-St. Louis               96   
10.         Rockhurst                           92    
11.         McKendree                         64 
12.         Upper Iowa                         43       
13.         William Jewell                     37
14.         Lincoln                                31
15.         Quincy                                28