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competitive 2015 season
If you like the perspective of numbers, below are approximate college and university stats for division III athletics and especially the softball teams. They are culled from several sources which have been updated at different times by varying measurements (e.g., College Navigator/ CSS / NFCA / NCAA), so its close enough, while not exact data.
Division III by the numbers…
442 TOTAL NCAA division III schools
415 TOTAL division III softball teams
231 northeast division III schools*
Wesley Wolverine junior #22 C/UT Morgan Seymour (Smyrna, DE) |
215 northeast division III softball teams**
46 TOTAL division III conferences
1 Delaware division III school (Wesley College)
19% division III are public institutions
81% division III are private institutions
Wesley Wolverine junior #8 OF Steph Caracozza (Melbourne Beach, FL). |
33,033 TOTAL Capital Athletic Conference undergrads
8,004 Salisbury undergrads
5,094 Christopher Newport undergrads
5,010 York undergrads
4,703 Frostburg State undergrads
4,383 Mary Washington undergrads
3,577 Penn State Harrisburg undergrads
1,600 Wesley College undergrads
662 Southern Virginia undergrads
Wesley Wolverine sophomore #9 P/OF Lily Engel (Dover, DE) |
230 average male athletes/ division III schools
160 average female athletes/ division III schools
$27,204 average division III yearly tuition costs
* Northeast region (231 D3 schools), southeast region (50 D3 schools), central region (126 D3 schools) and Western region (35 D3 schools).
**Approximate northeast softball division III rosters are: Pennsylvania (57 teams), New York (55 teams), Massachusetts (44 teams), New Jersey (15 teams), Maine (10 teams), Connecticut (8 teams), Maryland (7 teams), DC (3 teams), Vermont (6 teams), New Hampshire (5 teams), Rhode Island (4 teams), and Delaware (1 team).
Wesley Wolverine junior #25 1B Samantha Mahoski (Schenectady, NY) |