October 5, 2021
D3soccer.com Women's Top 25, Week 5
Through games of Sunday, October 3, 2021
| # | School (1st Pl. Votes) | Record | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | TCNJ (19) | 9-0-0 | 991 | 1 |
| 2 | Chris. Newport | 9-0-0 | 920 | 2 |
| 3 | Johns Hopkins (2) | 7-0-1 | 895 | 3 |
| 4 | Chicago | 9-0-1 | 851 | 4 |
| 5 | MIT (1) | 11-0-1 | 793 | 6 |
| 6 | Washington U. | 8-0-1 | 782 | 5 |
| 7 | William Smith | 8-1-1 | 716 | 8 |
| 8 | Trinity (Texas) | 8-0-1 | 645 | 9 |
| 9 | McDaniel | 10-0-0 | 644 | 10 |
| 10 | Misericordia | 9-1-0 | 604 | 7 |
| 11 | Centre | 9-1-1 | 567 | 11 |
| 12 | Messiah | 6-2-1 | 527 | 14 |
| 13 | Wesleyan | 6-0-0 | 523 | 15 |
| 14 | Case Western Res. | 9-0-0 | 520 | 12 |
| 15 | Amherst | 7-1-1 | 480 | 13 |
| 16 | Loras | 10-0-1 | 367 | 17 |
| 17 | Pomona-Pitzer | 7-0-2 | 343 | 16 |
| 18 | Hamilton | 7-0-2 | 313 | 21 |
| 19 | Scranton | 9-0-0 | 298 | 24 |
| 20 | Carnegie Mellon | 8-2-0 | 255 | 19 |
| 21 | Emory | 7-2-1 | 244 | 18 |
| 22 | Pacific Lutheran | 10-0-0 | 236 | 20 |
| 23 | Puget Sound | 9-0-1 | 114 | 25 |
| 24 | Lynchburg | 8-1-0 | 98 | — |
| 25 | Wartburg | 9-1-1 | 84 | — |
Dropped out: No. 22 Tufts, No. 23 Dickinson
Receiving Votes: Franklin and Marshall 75, Tufts 60, Calvin 40, Middlebury 36, Brandeis 36, Southwestern 29, Hanover 29, Geneseo State 22, Cal Lutheran 18, St. Catherine 15, Central 13, UW-La Crosse 11, Otterbein 9, Connecticut College 9, Gettysburg 4, Bowdoin 4, Dickinson 2, UW-Oshkosh 2, Saint Mary's (Minn.) 2
The D3soccer.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of coaches, Sports Information Directors and D3soccer.com staff, and is published weekly.
