by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Softball at University of Iowa, a spring sport — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. Iowa plays at the level of NCAA Division I-FBS as a member of Big Ten Conference.
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The Iowa women’s softball team carries 26 student athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 75. The NCAA tracked 105 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Of the 17 varsity sports Iowa reports, softball sits at #9 by total roster size.
The women’s softball program employs 5 coaches — 1 head coach and 4 assistants. Staffing-wise, 4 are full-time and 1 part-time. The head coach is Stacy May-Johnson.
Among the school’s 17 sports, softball sits #5 by total coaching staff.
Financial data is drawn from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Iowa women’s softball program generated $286,678 in revenue against $2,349,229 in expenses, coming up short by $2,062,551. That works out to about $22,982 in operating expense per athlete, or $597,543 per team.
Among the school’s 17 sports, softball ranks #7 by revenue, or about 0% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The women’s softball team recorded an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 979 (976 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 79%. It retained 98% of its athletes, with 97% remaining academically eligible.
Against the school’s average team APR of 991, softball trails the average at 979.
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Blank metrics mean the data was not reported for this team.