by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Soccer at Xavier University, a fall sport — with a section for each major topic and side-by-side gender and cross-sport context. Xavier competes in NCAA Division I without football as a member of BIG EAST Conference.
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The Xavier men’s soccer team fields 31 players, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 80. The NCAA tracked 108 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
The Xavier women’s soccer team carries 35 student athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 111. The most recent cohort included 139 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Across both rosters, Xavier fields 66 soccer athletes — 31 on the men’s side and 35 on the women’s.
Among the 11 varsity sports Xavier reports, soccer ranks #2 by total roster size.
The men’s soccer program is staffed by 4 coaches — 1 head coach and 3 assistants. Staffing-wise, 3 are full-time and 1 part-time. Leading the program is John Higgins.
The women’s soccer program is staffed by 4 coaches — 1 head coach and 3 assistants. In all, 3 are full-time and 1 part-time. Leading the program is Katy Etelman.
Comparing the two, men’s program carries 4 coaches to the women’s 4.
Among the school’s 11 sports, soccer ranks #2 by total coaching staff.
These numbers are reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Xavier men’s soccer program brought in $88,550 in revenue against $1,271,264 in expenses, running a deficit of $1,182,714. That works out to about $5,407 in operating expense per athlete, or $167,632 per team.
The Xavier women’s soccer program brought in $1,435,867 in revenue against $1,435,866 in expenses, for a surplus of $1. This comes to about $4,413 in operating expense per athlete, or $154,441 per team.
Comparing the two programs, the men’s team brought in $88,550 to the women’s $1,435,867 in revenue.
Against the school’s 11 sports, soccer sits #2 by revenue, or about 5% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s soccer team posted an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 969 (997 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 100%. Year over year, it held onto 100% of its athletes, with 99% remaining academically eligible.
The women’s soccer team posted an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 986 (1000 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 96%. Year over year, it held onto 100% of its athletes, with 100% remaining academically eligible.
Between the genders, the men posted an APR of 969 and the women 986, with graduation success rates of 100% and 96% respectively.
Against the school’s average team APR of 987, soccer lands below the pack at 978.
When Xavier places on one of our Best Schools for a Sport list, you’ll see it called out. To rank well, a program needs strong athletics and a quality education.
Some figures may be missing where the school did not report them.