The December 15, 2003 TheMat.com U.S. Women's College Wrestling Rankings for teams and individuals have been released. This is the first ranking of the year for U.S. women college wrestlers.    Cumberland College, a NAIA school in Kentucky, was named as the top U.S. women's college team in the preseason poll. The team is coached by Kip Flanik. Cumberland received two of the three first place votes.    Cumberland has been very active in the early season, competing a number of times in Canada. The team placed third in the Women's Championship Cup of Wrestling in Regina, Canada, and won the team title at the Brock Invitational Dual Championships.    Missouri Valley College, a NAIA team coached by Carl Murphree, placed second in the poll, with one first-place vote. Missouri Valley has not yet started its competition schedule, but is led by a number of veteran wrestlers and top recruits.    Placing No. 3 in the poll was Pacific Univ., a NCAA Div. III program in Oregon coached by Scott Miller. The athletes from Pacific have participated in their own Mike Clock Pacific Open, as well as at the Clansman International Open in Canada.    Taking the No. 4 spot was NAIA school Menlo College in California. At No. 5 was Lassen College, a junior college in California. Tied at No. 6 was NCAA Div. II Minnesota-Morris and NCAA Div. III MacMurray College of Illinois. Rounding out the Top 10 was No. 8 Univ. of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine WC, No. 9 Princeton Univ. and No. 10 Cal-State Bakersfield.    The poll can be found at:  http://themat.com/rankings/default.asp?CategoryID=108&RankingID=614    The team ranking poll is elected by a panel of three U.S. women's college coaches. Eligible for ranking are college varsity and club women's wrestling programs.    Top-ranked athletes in the individual rankings was spread among many of the teams in the rankings.    Cumberland College had the most No. 1 athletes with three, led by two-time World silver medalist Toccara Montgomery at 72 kg/158.5 lbs. Also top ranked from Cumberland is Suekoiyla Shelly at 55 kg/121 lbs. and Alaina Berube at 59 kg/130 lbs.     Missouri Valley College has a pair of No. 1 athletes: Debbi Sakai at 51 kg/112.25 lbs. and Mollie Keith at 67 kg/147.5 lbs.    UM-Morris also has two athletes ranked No. 1 in their divisions: Ranae Faaborg at 63 kg/138.5 lbs. and Megan Goldsmith at 80 kg/176 lbs.    The other top ranked wrestler in the nation is MacMurray College star Mary Kelly at 48 kg/105.5 lbs.    The 59 kg/130 lbs. weight division is perhaps the most competitive in the nation at this point. Berube gets the top spot, followed by Women's National Team member Lindsay Owens of Menlo College. Leigh Jaynes of Missouri Valley College is at No. 3 and Othella Lucas of Cumberland College gets the No. 4 spot. All eight of the ranked athletes at this division have been successful on the age-group national level in USA Wrestling women's competition.    The December 15, 2003 North American Women's College Individual rankings can be found at:  http://themat.com/rankings/default.asp?CategoryID=108&RankingID=615    The individual rankings are selected by TheMat.com. Athletes who are considered for ranking are eligible full-time college students, and are members of their college women's varsity or club program, or a member of their college men's wrestling team.     The International Olympic Committee has named women's freestyle wrestling as the newest sport added to the Summer Olympic Games program. Women have competed in college wrestling in the United States since the mid-1990s.    Copyright 2003 by USA Wrestling and TheMat.com.    Media outlets may reproduce these rankings only if they identify them as TheMat.com U.S.Women's College rankings