Here we dig into Softball at California State University-Long Beach, a spring sport — the roster, coaching, finances and academics, broken out by gender and stacked against the school’s other sports. CSULB competes in NCAA Division I without football as a member of Big West Conference.
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The CSULB women’s softball team fields 26 players, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 90. Academic data covers 101 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Of the 12 varsity sports CSULB reports, softball sits at #6 by total roster size.
The women’s softball program employs 4 coaches — 1 head coach and 3 assistants. In all, 3 work full-time and 1 part-time. The head coach is Kendall Fearn.
Among the school’s 12 sports, softball sits #5 by total coaching staff.
These numbers are reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The CSULB women’s softball program reported $1,321,951 in revenue against $1,321,951 in expenses, breaking even on the year. This comes to about $12,670 in operating expense per athlete, or $329,417 per team.
Among the school’s 12 sports, softball ranks #6 by revenue, or about 5% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The women’s softball team earned an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 979 (983 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 88%. The program kept 97% of its athletes, with 98% remaining academically eligible.
Relative to the school’s average team APR of 980, softball trails the average at 979.
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