Principia College
Elsah, IL · private, nonprofit · 339 undergraduates
Principia College tennis: how many players, how much aid, what it spends per player
In its 2025 filing to the Department of Education, Principia College listed 7 players on the men's tennis roster and 6 on the women's, both below their NCAA Division III medians of 12 and 10. Principia College reported no athletically related student aid in its 2025 filing, as Division III rules require; help with cost here comes through academic or need-based aid, not a tennis scholarship. Day-to-day operating spending in 2025 ran $3,486 per men's player, 82% above the NCAA Division III median of $1,918, and $1,799 per women's player, in line with the NCAA Division III median of $1,786.
Principia College, in Elsah, IL, fields 2 tennis teams, men's tennis and women's tennis, competing in NCAA Division III.
Principia College lists a single head coach and no assistant on the 2025 filing for men's tennis, which works out to about 7 players per coach, well above the NCAA Division III median of 5.3, by 31%.
Principia 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 III 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 Principia College fund its athletes?
Principia College reported 163 athletes across all sports in its 2025 Equity in Athletics filing, 95 men and 68 women, a roster count that leans heavily male.
It reported no athletically related student aid for that year, which is what to expect from NCAA Division III: any help with cost here comes through academic or need-based aid, not a tennis scholarship.
Recruiting spending was $4,680 for men's sports and $17,505 for women's, tilted toward the women's side, or about $49 and $257 per athlete.
What is Principia College like academically?
Principia College is a small private, nonprofit college whose highest award is the bachelor's degree.
74% of students finish their degree within six years, in the top quarter of colleges nationally and 83% of first-year students return for a second year.
What can you study at Principia College?
No single field dominates: the largest, Visual & Performing Arts, is 14% of degrees, with Business, Management & Marketing, Education and others close behind.
The bachelor's degree programs below awarded the most degrees in the most recent College Scorecard field-of-study data.
- Communication and Media Studies (11 degrees)
- Education, General (9 degrees)
- Engineering Science (8 degrees)
- Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology (7 degrees)
- Political Science and Government (7 degrees)
- Fine and Studio Arts (6 degrees)
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations (6 degrees)
- Computer Science (6 degrees)
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (6 degrees)
- Economics (5 degrees)
What is Elsah, IL like to live in?
Principia College sits in Elsah, a rural area near a metro of about 655 people in Jersey County, Illinois.
Household incomes in Elsah run close to both the Illinois and national medians, around $83,750 a year.
Housing is where the area is cheapest: a typical owner-occupied home is valued around $207,100, 17% below the Illinois median and a typical rent of $1,708 a month is 39% over the state figure.
Getting around is quick: the average commute is 11 minutes against a national average near 27, and driving is common but not universal, though 51% of workers walk and 17% work from home.
It reads as a college town: 48% of residents are 20 to 24, roughly 7.4 times the national share, and the median age of 21 is younger than the country's 39.
61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, more than the Illinois average of 37%.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Principia College have a tennis program?
- Yes. Principia College fields men's tennis (NCAA Division III) and women's tennis (NCAA Division III), per its Equity in Athletics filing to the U.S. Department of Education.
- How many players are on the Principia College tennis teams?
- In its 2025 filing to the Department of Education, Principia College listed 7 players on the men's tennis roster and 6 on the women's, both below their NCAA Division III medians of 12 and 10. Roster size shapes playing time: fewer players means a recruit is closer to the lineup, more means deeper competition for spots.
- Does Principia College give athletic aid for tennis?
- Principia College reported no athletically related student aid in its 2025 filing, as Division III rules require; help with cost here comes through academic or need-based aid, not a tennis scholarship. EADA reports aid by gender for the whole athletic department, never per team.
- How much does Principia College spend per tennis player?
- Day-to-day operating spending in 2025 ran $3,486 per men's player, 82% above the NCAA Division III median of $1,918, and $1,799 per women's player, in line with the NCAA Division III median of $1,786. Operating spending counts day-to-day costs such as travel, uniforms, equipment and game-day expenses, not coaching salaries or aid.
- Where is Principia College?
- Principia College is in Elsah, IL, in the Great Lakes region of the United States.