NORTHFIELD, Minn. – Four fall teams at Carleton College are currently nationally ranked for their respective sports. The men's soccer and women's cross country programs are sitting inside the top-5, while the women's golf and men's cross country teams are listed among the top-25. Meanwhile, the women's soccer team is receiving votes in the latest national poll.
 
Men's Soccer is having a season for the record books. The Knights are currently 13-1-1. This week's United Soccer Coaches poll listed Carleton at No. 4 in the nation—the program's highest-ever ranking—while the Knights stayed atop the region for the fourth consecutive week. ON Wednesday, the Knights were among the seven teams listed in the initial NCAA Regional Rankings, which are used by the selection committee when considering teams for at-large bids to the NCAA Championships. Carleton sits in a tie atop the conference standings and has already clinched a berth in the MIAC Playoffs for a conference-record 16th consecutive time.
 
Carleton women's cross country team is back up to No. 4 in this week's USTFCCCA's national rankings, matching the highest placement in program annals. The Knights continue their stranglehold on the top spot of the North Region as well. Coming off a fourth-place finish at the 2022 NCAA Championships, the Knights have been ranked among the top-6 teams in the country all season long. Carleton won another invite this past weekend, beating then No. 4 SUNY-Geneseo for the top spot in a 23-team field including six nationally ranked programs.
 
The women's golf team holds down the No. 21 spot in the Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) national poll. In the six tournaments during the fall season, the Knights have two teams wins and three second-place finishes (all to the No. 8 squad in the country). Earlier this week, Carleton posted an eighth-place finish at the Golfweek Fall Invitational, a 24-team tournament that included 18 nationally-ranked programs. All seven teams that finished above the Knights sit inside the top 13 in the country, with Carleton placing ahead of 10 nationally-ranked programs, eight of which are listed ahead of the Knights in the WGCA rankings, including a trio of top-15 squads.
 
The men's cross country team returned to the national rankings at spot No. 23, the highest the Knights have been listed this season. Carleton moved up to fourth in the North Region rankings following a sixth-place finish at the Augustana Interregional Invitational where the Knights finished above four other nationally-ranked programs.
                                                                                                               
The women's soccer team has worked its way into the national picture as the season has progressed. The Knights are 13-1-1 heading into Wednesday's game at Wartburg and are receiving votes in this week's United Soccer Coaches top-25 national poll as well as moving up to third in the region. Like the men's soccer team, the Carleton women are among the seven teams listed in the initial NCAA Regional Rankings, used by the NCAA Championships selection committee. The defending MIAC regular-season champs, Carleton sits atop the MIAC women's soccer standings once again with only two conference games left to play.
 
Elsewhere around the fall sports scene:
• the Carleton football team is 5-1 on the year
• the volleyball team has already surpassed last season's win total with five matches remaining in the regular season.
• men's tennis has started the year 4-0, while women's tennis is 3-0
• men's golf finished sixth at the MIAC Championships