This is the first of five installments during the 2021-2022 competition season. The panel considered returning rosters and performance expectations, as well as the most recent college spring 2021 season. The next ranking can be expected in October 2021.
| Rank | Women’s | Coed |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanford | Stanford |
| 2 | Boston College | Navy |
| 3 | Tulane | Yale |
| 4 | Harvard | Georgetown |
| 5 | Brown | Dartmouth |
| 6 | Yale | Tulane |
| 7 | Dartmouth | Brown |
| 8 | Cornell | Harvard |
| 9 | Navy | Boston College |
| 10 | Charleston | Roger Williams |
| 11 | Tufts | Charleston |
| 12 | Georgetown | UC Santa Barbara |
| 13 | MIT | Hobart & William Smith Colleges |
| 14 | Hobart & William Smith Colleges | Coast Guard |
| 15 | Jacksonville | St. Mary’s |
| 16 | Coast Guard | Jacksonville |
| 17 | U. Penn | George Washington |
| 18 | Old Dominion | Connecticut College |
| 19 | St. Marys | U. Penn |
| 20 | Bowdoin | Tufts |
| *Also receiving votes: George Wash, URI, UCSB, Conn Coll, USF | *Also receiving votes: MIT, Cornell, URI, Bowdoin, ODU, NY Maritime |
