by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Softball at Rider University, a spring sport — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. Rider is classified as NCAA Division I without football as a member of Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
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The Rider women’s softball team fields 22 athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 68. The most recent cohort included 80 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Of the 15 varsity sports Rider reports, softball comes in at #9 by total roster size.
The women’s softball program employs 2 coaches — 1 head coach and 1 assistant. Staffing-wise, 1 are full-time and 1 part-time. At the helm is Davon Ortega.
Across the school’s 15 sports, softball sits #9 by total coaching staff.
These numbers are reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Rider women’s softball program generated $593,878 in revenue against $593,878 in expenses, right at break-even. That works out to about $4,383 in operating expense per athlete, or $96,415 per team.
Against the school’s 15 sports, softball ranks #8 by revenue, or about 3% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The women’s softball team recorded an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 964 (993 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 94%. The program kept 98% of its athletes, with 100% remaining academically eligible.
Against the school’s average team APR of 979, softball trails the average at 964.
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Blank metrics mean the data was not reported for this team.