Here we dig into Softball at Wellesley College, a spring sport — with a section for each major topic and side-by-side gender and cross-sport context. Wellesley competes in NCAA Division III without football as a member of New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference.
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The Wellesley women’s softball team carries 22 student athletes.
Among the 16 varsity sports Wellesley sponsors, softball ranks #5 by total roster size.
The women’s softball program is staffed by 3 coaches — 1 head coach and 2 assistants. Of those, 0 work full-time and 3 part-time. The head coach is Keri O'Meara.
Across the school’s 16 sports, softball ranks #5 by total coaching staff.
The figures below come from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Wellesley women’s softball program brought in $255,911 in revenue against $255,911 in expenses, right at break-even. That works out to about $925 in operating expense per athlete, or $20,354 per team.
Against the school’s 16 sports, softball ranks #3 by revenue, accounting for 5% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
When Wellesley places on one of our Best Schools for a Sport list, we note it here. Our sports rankings reward schools that excel on the field and in the classroom.
If we don’t have data on a particular metric for this sport, it won’t appear above.