Here we dig into Softball at Bellarmine University, a spring sport — the roster, coaching, finances and academics, broken out by gender and stacked against the school’s other sports. Bellarmine U competes in NCAA Division I without football as a member of Atlantic Sun Conference.
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The Bellarmine U women’s softball team lists 28 players. The NCAA tracked 82 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Of the 14 varsity sports Bellarmine U reports, softball sits at #8 by total roster size.
The women’s softball program is staffed by 3 coaches — 1 head coach and 2 assistants. In all, 2 work full-time and 1 part-time. The head coach is Whitney Arion.
Across the school’s 14 sports, softball ranks #10 by total coaching staff.
These numbers are reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Bellarmine U women’s softball program generated $691,415 in revenue against $691,415 in expenses, essentially breaking even. That works out to about $7,015 in operating expense per athlete, or $196,413 per team.
Among the school’s 14 sports, softball ranks #7 by revenue, or about 4% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The women’s softball team recorded an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 980 and a Graduation Success Rate of 93%.
Compared with the school’s average team APR of 989, softball sits below average at 980.
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