by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Baseball at Saint Mary’s College of California, a spring sport — with a section for each major topic and side-by-side gender and cross-sport context. SMC is classified as NCAA Division I without football as a member of West Coast Conference.
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The SMC men’s baseball team fields 40 athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 98. The most recent cohort included 123 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Among the 14 varsity sports SMC reports, baseball comes in at #6 by total roster size.
The men’s baseball program is staffed by 4 coaches — 1 head coach and 3 assistants. Of those, 3 are full-time and 1 part-time. The head coach is Eric Valenzuela.
Among the school’s 14 sports, baseball ranks #5 by total coaching staff.
These numbers are reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The SMC men’s baseball program generated $2,618,282 in revenue against $2,618,282 in expenses, essentially breaking even. That works out to about $21,559 in operating expense per athlete, or $862,360 per team.
Against the school’s 14 sports, baseball sits #3 by revenue, or about 8% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s baseball team posted an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 957 (976 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 100%. It retained 95% of its athletes, with 100% remaining academically eligible.
Compared with the school’s average team APR of 986, baseball trails the average at 957.
When SMC places on one of our Best Schools for a Sport list, you’ll see it called out. College Factual’s sports rankings weigh both athletics and academics.
Blank metrics mean the data was not reported for this team.