The Central College Women’s Soccer team is picked to finish fourth this season in the preseason coaches poll.

Loras, a co-champion in 2016, received 5 of 9 first place votes and 56 total points, edging Wartburg by one. Luther, who was co-champ with Loras and won the league tournament, tallied 48 points, two ahead of the Dutch.

Central is coming off a 15-4-1 season that included a 6-2 mark in the Iowa Conference, good for fourth place.

The Dutch open the 2017 season on September 1st at home against Maranatha Baptist.