Here we dig into Lacrosse at Colorado Mesa University, a spring sport — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. Colorado Mesa plays at the level of NCAA Division II with football as a member of Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.
Skip ahead to the topic you care about:
The Colorado Mesa men’s lacrosse team fields 55 players.
The Colorado Mesa women’s lacrosse team carries 38 players.
Between the two teams, Colorado Mesa carries 93 lacrosse athletes — 55 on the men’s side and 38 on the women’s.
Among the 17 varsity sports Colorado Mesa reports, lacrosse ranks #3 by total roster size.
The men’s lacrosse program carries 3 coaches — 1 head coach and 2 assistants. In all, 2 work full-time and 1 part-time. At the helm is Troy Moyer.
The women’s lacrosse program carries 2 coaches — 1 head coach and 1 assistant. Of those, 2 work full-time and 0 part-time. The head coach is Ashley Delaney.
Side by side, the men’s program carries 3 coaches to the women’s 2.
Across the school’s 17 sports, lacrosse ranks #6 by total coaching staff.
The figures below come from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Colorado Mesa men’s lacrosse program reported $500,517 in revenue against $493,674 in expenses, a net profit of $6,843. This comes to about $4,070 in operating expense per athlete, or $223,856 per team.
The Colorado Mesa women’s lacrosse program brought in $422,039 in revenue against $432,801 in expenses, running a deficit of $10,762. That works out to about $3,111 in operating expense per athlete, or $118,221 per team.
Between the genders, the men’s team brought in $500,517 to the women’s $422,039 in revenue.
Against the school’s 17 sports, lacrosse ranks #5 by revenue, accounting for 6% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
If Colorado Mesa 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.
If we don’t have data on a particular metric for this sport, it won’t appear above.