The Nebraska Wesleyan University men’s golf team is ranked ninth in the first Golf World/Nike Golf Division III Coaches’ Poll of the spring season that was released on Thursday (Feb. 21).

The Prairie Wolves men’s golf team was also ranked ninth at the end of the 2007 fall season. NWU received 206 points in the poll. 

Nebraska Wesleyan won two of the four tournaments that they participated in during the fall season. The Prairie Wolves are set to open the 2008 spring season on March 18-19 when they travel to Atlanta, Ga., to face Emory University.

Golf World/Nike Golf Coaches’ Poll (Division III)

Rank Team

1. Oglethorpe (11)

2. Methodist (1) 

3. Huntington 

4. Saint John’s (Minn.) (1) 

5. Gustavus Adolphus

6. Rhodes College 

7. Guilford 

8. Illinois Wesleyan 

9. Nebraska Wesleyan

10. Ohio Wesleyan 

11. UT-Tyler 

12. Allegheny 

13. Centre 

14. St. John Fisher 

15. Texas Lutheran 

T16. La Verne

T16. Transylvania 

18. La Grange

19. Emory

20. Skidmore 

21. Mary Hardin-Baylor 

22. Washington & Jefferson 

23. Washington & Lee 

24. Otterbein 

25. Hope