Here we dig into Rowing at Lehigh University, a spring sport — the roster, coaching, finances and academics, broken out by gender and stacked against the school’s other sports. Lehigh plays at the level of NCAA Division I-FCS as a member of Patriot League.
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The Lehigh women’s rowing team fields 38 student athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 32. The NCAA tracked 47 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Of the 17 varsity sports Lehigh sponsors, rowing comes in at #8 by total roster size.
The women’s rowing program carries 7 coaches — 1 head coach and 6 assistants. Staffing-wise, 0 are full-time and 7 part-time. The head coach is Peter Costas.
Across the school’s 17 sports, rowing ranks #6 by total coaching staff.
The figures below come from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Lehigh women’s rowing program brought in $507,953 in revenue against $507,953 in expenses, right at break-even. That works out to about $2,089 in operating expense per athlete, or $79,384 per team.
Against the school’s 17 sports, rowing ranks #14 by revenue, or about 1% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The women’s rowing team earned an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 995 (1000 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 100%. Year over year, it held onto 100% of its athletes, with 100% remaining academically eligible.
Against the school’s average team APR of 995, rowing sits above average at 995.
When Lehigh places on one of our Best Schools for a Sport list, we note it here. College Factual’s sports rankings weigh both athletics and academics.
Blank metrics mean the data was not reported for this team.