LANCASTER, PA – The Johns Hopkins women's track and field team was selected to finish atop the Centennial Conference in the preseason coaches' poll, as released this morning. The Blue Jays have taken home the last 13 Conference Championships and will look to secure number 14 in the upcoming season.

Hopkins claimed all nine possible first-place votes in the poll to total 81 points. Dickinson (73) received a first-place vote from the Jays to finish second, with Swarthmore (59) rounding out the projected top three teams. 

Hopkins has recorded the highest point tallies in championship history in each of the last three seasons — 343 in 2022, 291 in 2023, and 311 in 2024 — en route to three consecutive top four finishes at the National Championships. The Blue Jays, led by a trio of All-Americans in Lauren Phillips, Mackenzie Setton, Annie Huang, seem poised to put together another dominant campaign. 

The Blue Jays will open the season with two separate events Saturday, December 7 with the Navy Invitational in Annapolis, MD and the BU Sharon Colyear Danville Invitational in Boston, MA.  

2024-25 Centennial Conference Preseason Poll 

1. Johns Hopkins (9) – 81 points 
2. Dickinson (1) – 73
3. Swarthmore – 59
4. Ursinus – 56
5. Gettysburg – 51
6. Haverford – 46
7. McDaniel – 28 
8. Muhlenberg – 25 
9. Franklin and Marshall – 21
10. Bryn Mawr – 10