by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Tennis at Saint Mary’s College of California, a spring sport — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. SMC is classified as NCAA Division I without football as a member of West Coast Conference.
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The SMC men’s tennis team carries 10 athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 35. Academic data covers 34 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
The SMC women’s tennis team carries 8 players, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 32. Academic data covers 34 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Between the two teams, SMC carries 18 tennis athletes — 10 on the men’s side and 8 on the women’s.
Of the 14 varsity sports SMC reports, tennis sits at #10 by total roster size.
The men’s tennis program is staffed by 3 coaches — 1 head coach and 2 assistants. Staffing-wise, 1 work full-time and 2 part-time. The head coach is Daniel Cardiff.
The women’s tennis program carries 3 coaches — 1 head coach and 2 assistants. Of those, 2 are full-time and 1 part-time. The head coach is Katharina Winterhalter.
Side by side, the men’s program carries 3 coaches to the women’s 3.
Across the school’s 14 sports, tennis ranks #3 by total coaching staff.
The figures below come from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The SMC men’s tennis program brought in $646,961 in revenue against $646,961 in expenses, right at break-even. That works out to about $14,931 in operating expense per athlete, or $149,313 per team.
The SMC women’s tennis program generated $886,886 in revenue against $886,886 in expenses, right at break-even. That works out to about $15,267 in operating expense per athlete, or $122,133 per team.
Side by side, the men’s team brought in $646,961 to the women’s $886,886 in revenue.
Among the school’s 14 sports, tennis sits #4 by revenue, accounting for 5% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s tennis team posted an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 992 (968 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 100%. It retained 95% of its athletes, with 98% remaining academically eligible.
The women’s tennis team posted an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 1000 (983 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 100%. It retained 97% of its athletes, with 100% remaining academically eligible.
Between the genders, the men posted an APR of 992 and the women 1000, with graduation success rates of 100% and 100% respectively.
Against the school’s average team APR of 986, tennis sits above average at 996.
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Blank metrics mean the data was not reported for this team.