October 23, 2012
D3soccer.com Women's Top 25, Week 8
Through games of Sunday, October 21, 2012
| # | School (1st Pl. Votes) | Record | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | Messiah (5) | 14-1-1 | 594 | 2 |
| 2 | Emory (15) | 10-0-4 | 590 | 1 |
| 3 | Hardin-Simmons (3) | 13-0-1 | 573 | 3 |
| 4 | Ithaca (1) | 15-0-1 | 549 | 4 |
| 5 | Virginia Wesleyan (1) | 16-0-1 | 530 | 5 |
| 6 | Lynchburg | 15-0-3 | 476 | 7 |
| 7 | Trinity (Texas) | 11-1-2 | 462 | 9 |
| 8 | Washington U. | 12-1-1 | 450 | 8 |
| 9 | Aurora | 17-0-1 | 410 | 10 |
| 10 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 14-2-2 | 375 | 11 |
| 11 | TCNJ | 14-1-1 | 354 | 13 |
| 12 | William Smith | 12-2-1 | 343 | 14 |
| 13 | Amherst | 11-1-1 | 323 | 15 |
| 14 | Centre | 15-1-0 | 308 | 6 |
| 15 | Middlebury | 11-1-1 | 284 | 16 |
| 16 | Montclair State | 14-1-1 | 225 | 18 |
| 17 | Williams | 10-2-1 | 183 | 19 |
| 18 | Wheaton (Mass.) | 14-1-3 | 178 | 12 |
| 19 | Thomas More | 16-1-0 | 165 | 21 |
| 20 | Union | 13-2-0 | 148 | 17 |
| 21 | Misericordia | 13-2-1 | 134 | 20 |
| 22 | Johns Hopkins | 12-3-1 | 85 | 22 |
| 23 | Loras | 14-4-0 | 81 | 24 |
| 24 | Cal Lutheran | 16-2-0 | 52 | — |
| 25 | Carnegie Mellon | 10-1-2 | 51 | — |
Dropped out: No. 23 Mass-Boston, No. 25 Wartburg
Receiving Votes: Rowan 48, Brockport State 34, Linfield 28, Washington and Lee 18, Mass-Boston 15, Augustana 14, Richard Stockton 11, Mary Washington 8, Western Connecticut 6, Concordia-Moorhead 6, Westfield State 5, Bowdoin 3, MIT 2, Texas-Tyler 1, Kean 1, Wartburg 1, Chicago 1
The D3soccer.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly.
