by our College Data Analytics TeamOn this page we break down Baseball at Houston Christian University, a spring sport — with a section for each major topic and side-by-side gender and cross-sport context. HBU competes in NCAA Division I-FCS as a member of Southland Conference.
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The HBU men’s baseball team carries 41 student athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 115. Academic data covers 122 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Of the 11 varsity sports HBU reports, baseball sits at #4 by total roster size.
The men’s baseball program employs 4 coaches — 1 head coach and 3 assistants. In all, 3 work full-time and 1 part-time. The head coach is Clayton VanderLaan.
Among the school’s 11 sports, baseball sits #6 by total coaching staff.
The figures below come from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The HBU men’s baseball program brought in $1,157,217 in revenue against $1,157,217 in expenses, breaking even on the year. This comes to about $6,121 in operating expense per athlete, or $250,958 per team.
Against the school’s 11 sports, baseball sits #5 by revenue, or about 6% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s baseball team earned an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 950 (971 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 92%. The program kept 98% of its athletes, with 97% remaining academically eligible.
Compared with the school’s average team APR of 977, baseball sits below average at 950.
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Blank metrics mean the data was not reported for this team.