by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Soccer at Northwestern University, a fall sport — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. Northwestern competes in NCAA Division I-FBS as a member of Big Ten Conference.
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The Northwestern men’s soccer team lists 29 athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 94. The most recent cohort included 104 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
The Northwestern women’s soccer team carries 31 athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 102. The NCAA tracked 113 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Across both rosters, Northwestern fields 60 soccer athletes — 29 on the men’s side and 31 on the women’s.
Of the 16 varsity sports Northwestern reports, soccer sits at #2 by total roster size.
The men’s soccer program carries 4 coaches — 1 head coach and 3 assistants. Of those, 3 are full-time and 1 part-time. Leading the program is Russell Payne.
The women’s soccer program carries 4 coaches — 1 head coach and 3 assistants. In all, 4 work full-time and 0 part-time. At the helm is Michael Moynihan.
Between the genders, the men’s program carries 4 coaches to the women’s 4.
Among the school’s 16 sports, soccer sits #4 by total coaching staff.
The figures below come from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Northwestern men’s soccer program reported $737,081 in revenue against $1,650,824 in expenses, running a deficit of $913,743. This comes to about $5,108 in operating expense per athlete, or $148,125 per team.
The Northwestern women’s soccer program generated $1,464,744 in revenue against $2,434,828 in expenses, coming up short by $970,084. That works out to about $7,409 in operating expense per athlete, or $229,675 per team.
Side by side, the men’s team brought in $737,081 to the women’s $1,464,744 in revenue.
Among the school’s 16 sports, soccer ranks #5 by revenue, or about 2% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s soccer team recorded an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 999 (994 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 95%. It retained 99% of its athletes, with 99% remaining academically eligible.
The women’s soccer team recorded an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 998 (1000 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 100%. The program kept 100% of its athletes, with 100% remaining academically eligible.
Side by side, the men posted an APR of 999 and the women 998, with graduation success rates of 95% and 100% respectively.
Compared with the school’s average team APR of 996, soccer sits above average at 998.
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Some figures may be missing where the school did not report them.