Subject: UPA Collegiate Rankings - Women's Division
Date: 9 Apr 1996 18:24:52 GMT
Summary: Top College Ultimate Teams in the U.S.
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Rec-sport-disc-archive-name: upa_top25_women
Posting-Frequency: Weekly, March to June
Version: 1996.06


INTRO:
                The UPA Top 25 College Rankings

The UPA is the Ultimate Players Association, a non-profit
organization that promotes the sport of Ultimate, a disc/frisbee
sport.

The following is a copy of a UPA press release, except that only the
top 25 schools were listed.

For more information about the UPA call 1-800-UPA-GetH.  More
information about the algorithms used in the Top 25 appears in the
rec.sport.disc FAQ.

***** Special Notes this week: most scores are still missing from
Terminus, Centex, Las Positas, Northwestern's Big Chill, Clemson's
Joint Summit Classic, and Smith's Easter tourney.

FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION:

1.  On the Web - you can see your scores by visiting the Top 25 
Score Server at http://www.unipress.com/people/paul/top25.html.

2.  By Email - you can get a report of your scores by sending
a message to ultimate_report_send@scilla.central.sun.com.  The
subject line should have: "top25 teamname", where <teamname> is the 
name of the team as it appears in these rankings.  You can get other 
information by sending a message to that address with "help" as the 
subject.


RETREIVING THE LIST FROM ALTERNATE SOURCES

1.  Pick it up from the UPA E-mail Alias server:
    Send a message to ultimate_report_send@scilla.central.sun.com
    with a subject line of: top25_rankings Open
                        or: top25_rankings Women

2.  Pick it up from anonymous FTP sources.
    ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/rec.sport.disc
    The name of the files are:
          upa_top25_open
          upa_top25_women

3.  Send an e-mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with
        no subject and in the body of the message:
    send usenet/rec.sport.disc/upa_top25_open
    send usenet/rec.sport.disc/upa_top25_women

4.  With a Web cruiser, check out the UPA Home Page, which is at:
    http://www.upa.org/~upa
    or Eric Simon's Frisbee Connection, at:
    http://www.access.digex.net/~erics/top25.html


THE PRESS RELEASE:

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NEWS RELEASE

Date:             April 9, 1996

From:             UPA College Rankings Office

Contact:          Eric Simon


The Ultimate Players Association has released its latest Collegiate 
Women's Rankings of the 1996 season.  Only teams that have played 
four games or more this season have been ranked.


Rank   Team            P.R.*   W  -  L    L.W.

  1 Stanford             1595   9 -  0      1
  2 UNC-Wilmington       1560  17 -  0      2
  3 Columbia             1366  11 -  1      -
  4 Cornell              1363   5 -  2      3
  5 U. Penn.             1340  11 -  4      4
  6 Rutgers              1331  11 -  3      -
  7 Florida State        1296   7 -  2      5
  8 Colorado             1256   5 -  2      6
  9 U.C.Davis            1208   4 -  2      7
 10 U.C.Santa Barbara    1195   5 -  2      8
 11 Williams             1063   6 -  2      -
 12 Yale                 1055   5 -  4      -
 13 Oregon               1052   2 -  3     10
 14 Macalester            961   4 -  6     12
 15 William and Mary      934   3 -  2     10
 16 Stanford-B            875   3 -  3     14
 17 Haverford             869   3 -  6      -
 18 East Carolina         836   4 -  7     15
 19 Brown                 827   3 -  4      -
 20 Princeton             806   7 -  6      9
 21 Oberlin               805   1 -  4     16
 22 U.C.Santa Cruz        792   1 -  4     17
 23 Wesleyan              785   1 -  5     18
 24 Swarthmore            772   0 -  4      -
 25 Appalachian State     760   1 -  4     19
 26 N.C.State             744   1 -  3
 27 U. Mass.              688   3 -  4
 28 Sonoma State          671   1 -  5
 29 North Carolina        636   1 -  3
 30 Humboldt State        590   0 -  4
 31 Oregon State          521   0 -  4
 32 S.U.N.Y. Binghamton   498   0 -  5
 33 Maryland              454   1 -  5
 34 Rochester             409   0 -  7
 35 Vermont               280   0 -  5
 36 Drew                  162   0 -  5

For more information about the UPA call 1-800-UPA-GetH.

*P.R. is the "UPA Power Rating."  W - L is the Won/Loss Record.  LW
is the UPA ranking last week.

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