Use the women's soccer athletic scholarship information above to find out:
Total Number of Athletes and Average Athletes Per Team: This lets you know approximately how many female athletes are on women's soccer teams around the U.S., which can help you see how competitive the recruiting process is. The more positions there are the more opportunities you have for getting recruited to a college soccer team.
Average Operating Expenses Per Player: This refers to the amount colleges are spending on average for each player on a women's soccer team for things that are needed such as uniforms and equipment. How much a college invests in you as a player will help figure out how valuable they think you are to the soccer team and the overall sports program as well as the level of support they offer each player.
Average Operating Expenses Per Team: This is exactly what it cost typically for a college to run the day-to-day operations that keep a soccer program up and running. This can give student athletes a good idea of the quality of women's soccer programs, facilities and training staff at colleges across the nation. The more colleges spend the greater quality you may expect.
Total Full and Part Time Coaches: Coaches are vital to assisting you sharpen your skills and help you remain track academically and athletically so you'll be able to keep your soccer scholarship every single year. The more women's soccer coaches there are, the more likely you will be to get one-on-one training and attention which will help you reach your goal of graduating college.
Average Total Revenue: The more money colleges can make off their women's soccer programs the more likely they are to grow them. When women's soccer programs are more profitable and popular colleges will spend more in their existing programs and other colleges will create a new soccer teams to get in on the action. More soccer teams means more athletic scholarship opportunities.
Average Total Expenses: Is there a growing interest in promoting and growing women's soccer teams? Are colleges actively recruiting women's soccer players? The total expenses stat includes operating and recruiting expenses. This will give you a good idea of how much colleges around the United States are investing in women's soccer programs and recruiting players, thus whether or not soccer scholarship opportunities are likely to grow, keep pace or weaken.
Now that you are aware of the national statistics see how the different divisions compare. Pick a division below to get detailed sports program and athletic scholarship statistics.