After winning it's first ever Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Women's Cross Country Championship in 2008, Saint Xavier University has been selected as the preseason favorite to repeat as champions in a vote of the conference's nine coaches. Saint Xavier featured five runners in the top eight of last year's league championship meet, including the second-place finisher. The Cougars then finished 19th in the nation at the NAIA National Championship.

Saint Xavier garnered seven of the nine first-place votes and 66 votes overall in this year's poll to earn the top nod. Illinois Institute of Technology, which collected one of the other first-place votes, totaled 61 votes and was predicted to finish second.

The next four teams were separated by just seven votes. University of St. Francis was chosen as the third-place favorite with 49 votes, while Trinity Christian College was right behind with 48 votes. Olivet Nazarene University, who earned the other first-place vote, came in with 47 votes. Second-year program Judson University gained the No. 6 spot with its 42 votes.

Rounding out the poll were Robert Morris University (30 votes), Cardinal Stritch University (28) and first-year competitor Holy Cross College (13).

The complete 2009 CCAC Preseason Women's Cross Country Coaches Poll is listed below: