The Hope women's and men's swimming & diving teams both appear in the first Endless Pools College Swimming Top 25 polls of 2014.

Coach John Patnott's Flying Dutch are ranked 24th in NCAA Division III, while his Flying Dutchmen are 25th.

The ranking accounts for teams' top performances over the preceding month and is the only objective ranking of swimming for NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, NAIA, and NJCAA. The  rankings utilize a new point system based on a 1,100 point scale.  The new scale uses NCAA time standards and a percentile ranking of all times over the past four years.

The Flying Dutch had a score of 335 points. The Flying Dutchmen had a total of 334.5 points.

Click here to see the women's and men's polls.

Hope returns to action on Saturday, Jan. 18, when it swims at Albion College at 1 p.m. The Albion men are ranked 20th.