LYCOMING COLLEGE FOOTBALL RANKED 14^TH BY
STREET & SMITH’S

WILLIAMSPORT, PA – The 2003 Lycoming College football team has been ranked 14^th in Street & Smith’s Division III preseason top-25 poll. The poll is part of the Street & Smith’s 2003 College Football National Preview and is the first preseason poll released for Division III.

The Warriors return 14 starters and 26 letterwinners from last season’s 6-3 squad. Key veterans on the offensive side of the ball include junior quarterback Phil Mann (Mill Hall, PA; Central Mountain), who was 6-1 in his first season as a starter, senior center Matt Mendola (Dunmore, PA; Dunmore), and the entire starting receiving corps. On defense, four starters are back, including last year’s leading tackler Luke Sterling (So./Lehighton, PA; Lehighton) at linebacker and free-safety Brian Kaspick (Jr./Clearfield, PA; Clearfield).

Lycoming is one of just two Middle Atlantic Conference teams in the top-25. Widener University is ranked 22^nd by the magazine. Wilkes University is one of 14 institutions listed in the “Best of the Rest” section of the article. This is the eighth consecutive year that the Warriors have been ranked in the preseason top-25 by Street & Smith’s.

Street & Smith’s Division III Preseason Top-25
1.     Mount Union
2.     St. John’s (Minn.)
3.     Rowan
4.     Wabash
5.     Wheaton (Ill.)
6.     Baldwin-Wallace
7.     Washington & Jefferson
8.     Trinity (Texas)
9.     Brockport St.
10.   Linfield
11.   Wisconsin-La Crosse
12.   Bridgewater
13.   Wartburg
14.   Lycoming
15.   Augustana (Ill.)
16.   Wisconsin-Stout
17.   Muhlenberg
18.   Hanover
19.   Wittenberg
20.   Central (Iowa)
21.   Hardin-Simmons
22.   Widener
23.   Alma
24.   Worcester St.
25.   Ohio Northern