by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Volleyball at Samford University — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. Samford plays at the level of NCAA Division I-FCS as a member of Southern Conference.
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The Samford women’s volleyball team fields 16 athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 47. The most recent cohort included 48 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Among the 11 varsity sports Samford sponsors, volleyball comes in at #9 by total roster size.
The women’s volleyball program is staffed by 3 coaches — 1 head coach and 2 assistants. In all, 3 are full-time and 0 part-time. At the helm is Keylor H. Chan.
Among the school’s 11 sports, volleyball ranks #9 by total coaching staff.
These numbers are reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Samford women’s volleyball program reported $1,155,381 in revenue against $1,062,763 in expenses, for a surplus of $92,618. This comes to about $5,859 in operating expense per athlete, or $93,748 per team.
Among the school’s 11 sports, volleyball sits #7 by revenue, accounting for 4% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The women’s volleyball team posted an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 1000 (984 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 100%. Year over year, it held onto 99% of its athletes, with 98% remaining academically eligible.
Relative to the school’s average team APR of 988, volleyball grades out ahead at 1000.
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Blank metrics mean the data was not reported for this team.