Kentucky Wesleyan College
Owensboro, KY · private, nonprofit · 842 undergraduates
Which tennis teams does Kentucky Wesleyan College field?
Kentucky Wesleyan College, in Owensboro, KY, fields 2 tennis teams, men's tennis and women's tennis, competing in NCAA Division II as a member of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference.
The men's roster is the larger of the two, 8 players against 6, in the school's latest Equity in Athletics filing.
Kentucky Wesleyan College's men's tennis roster has grown over 5 years, from 6 players in 2020 to 8 in 2025. That 2025 roster is well below the Great Midwest Athletic Conference median of 12, by 33%, and 20% below the NCAA Division II median of 10. Kentucky Wesleyan College lists a single head coach and no assistant on the 2025 filing for men's tennis, which works out to about 8 players per coach, well above the NCAA Division II median of 5.2, by 55%.
Kentucky Wesleyan College's women's tennis roster is smaller than it was: 6 players in 2025, down from 9 in 2020. That 2025 roster is well below the Great Midwest Athletic Conference median of 9, by 33%, and about the same distance from the NCAA Division II median. Kentucky Wesleyan College lists a single head coach and no assistant on the 2025 filing for women's tennis, which works out to about 6 players per coach, 20% above the NCAA Division II median of 5.
Each team page below covers roster size and its trend, coaching staff, spending per player against conference and division medians, and what the school and town are like for a recruit.
How does Kentucky Wesleyan College fund its athletes?
Kentucky Wesleyan College reported 362 athletes across all sports in its 2025 Equity in Athletics filing, 265 men and 97 women, a roster count that leans heavily male.
Athletically related student aid came to $3,102,008, about $8,397 per male athlete and $9,039 per female athlete across all sports; tennis's share of that is not reported separately, so a recruit should ask the coach directly what a tennis award typically covers.
Recruiting spending was $31,376 for men's sports and $8,486 for women's, tilted toward the men's side, or about $118 and $87 per athlete.
What is Kentucky Wesleyan College like academically?
Kentucky Wesleyan College is a small private, nonprofit college whose highest award is the bachelor's degree that admits 72% of applicants, moderately selective by national standards, where the median college admits 78%.
Admitted students' SAT scores average 1044.
The full cost of attendance is around $46,203 a year, well above the national median of $25,497, but the average family paid about $17,131 after grants and scholarships, in the below the median nationally, so aid covers roughly 63% of the sticker price on average.
50% of undergraduates receive federal Pell grants, a sign the school enrolls many families with limited income.
47% of students finish their degree within six years, below the median of 52% and 53% of first-year students return for a second year.
Ten years after enrolling, former students earn a median of $46,747, above the median of $40,747.
What can you study at Kentucky Wesleyan College?
No single field dominates: the largest, Business, Management & Marketing, is 18% of degrees, with Parks, Recreation & Fitness, Visual & Performing Arts and others close behind.
The bachelor's degree programs below awarded the most degrees in the most recent College Scorecard field-of-study data.
- Business/Commerce, General (23 degrees)
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness (18 degrees)
- Psychology, General (18 degrees)
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (12 degrees)
- Zoology/Animal Biology (11 degrees)
- Chemistry (11 degrees)
- Criminal Justice and Corrections (9 degrees)
- History (8 degrees)
- Design and Applied Arts (8 degrees)
- Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General (8 degrees)
What is Owensboro, KY like to live in?
Kentucky Wesleyan College sits in Owensboro, a small city of about 60,000 people in Daviess County, Kentucky.
The median household in Owensboro earns about $53,295, which is below the Kentucky median ($62,417) but far below the national median ($78,538).
Housing is where the area is cheapest: a typical owner-occupied home is valued around $162,900, 15% below the Kentucky median and rents are typical for the state, about $900 a month.
Getting around is quick: the average commute is 18 minutes against a national average near 27, and nearly everyone drives alone.
The age mix is close to the national picture, a median of 38, with 24% under 18 and 18% aged 65 or over.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Kentucky Wesleyan College have a tennis program?
- Yes. Kentucky Wesleyan College fields men's tennis (NCAA Division II, Great Midwest Athletic Conference) and women's tennis (NCAA Division II, Great Midwest Athletic Conference), per its Equity in Athletics filing to the U.S. Department of Education.
- Where is Kentucky Wesleyan College?
- Kentucky Wesleyan College is in Owensboro, KY, in the Southeast region of the United States.
- How much does Kentucky Wesleyan College cost?
- The College Scorecard lists an average cost of attendance of $46,203 a year, and an average net price of $17,131 after grants and scholarships.