Here we dig into Baseball at Davidson College, a spring sport — the roster, coaching, finances and academics, broken out by gender and stacked against the school’s other sports. Davidson competes in NCAA Division I-FCS as a member of Atlantic 10 Conference.
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The Davidson men’s baseball team carries 40 players, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 68. The most recent cohort included 113 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Of the 15 varsity sports Davidson reports, baseball sits at #5 by total roster size.
The men’s baseball program is staffed by 5 coaches — 1 head coach and 4 assistants. In all, 4 work full-time and 1 part-time. At the helm is Rucker Taylor.
Across the school’s 15 sports, baseball sits #6 by total coaching staff.
These numbers are reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Davidson men’s baseball program brought in $1,098,350 in revenue against $1,505,685 in expenses, a net loss of $407,335. This comes to about $5,326 in operating expense per athlete, or $213,040 per team.
Against the school’s 15 sports, baseball sits #4 by revenue, accounting for 4% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s baseball team posted an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 1000 (996 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 100%. The program kept 99% of its athletes, with 100% remaining academically eligible.
Against the school’s average team APR of 994, baseball comes in above the pack at 1000.
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Blank metrics mean the data was not reported for this team.