Doane University
Investment & Impact
| Men's tennis expenses | $125,320 |
|---|---|
| Women's tennis expenses | $74,239 |
How much does Doane University spend on women's tennis?
Doane University reported $74,239 in total women's tennis expenses in the 2025 EADA survey, ranking #755 of 1141 women's tennis programs nationally. Figures are school-reported to the U.S. Department of Education.
Does Doane University offer athletic scholarships for women's athletes?
In the 2025 EADA survey, Doane University's athletically related student aid averaged about $12,170 per women's athlete across all women's sports. Aid is reported at the school level, not per team.
How much does Doane University spend on recruiting women's athletes?
Doane University reported $13,590 in total recruiting expenses for women's teams in the 2025 EADA survey (school-wide, all women's sports).
How does Doane University's spending compare between men's and women's tennis?
In the 2025 EADA survey, Doane University reported $125,320 in total men's tennis expenses and $74,239 in total women's tennis expenses.
Can college athletes in Nebraska earn NIL money?
Nebraska's Fair Pay to Play Act (LB 962, 2020) was among the first state laws allowing college athletes to earn NIL compensation. (Verified 2026-06-11; source: https://nsaa-static.s3.amazonaws.com/textfile/yb/NIL.pdf.)
Public DOE EADA filing, 2025 survey · figures are school-reported
How big is the Doane University women's tennis roster?
Doane University listed 8 players on its women's tennis roster in its 2025 filing, 20% below the Great Plains Athletic Conference median of 10.
Doane University's women's tennis roster has moved around, as low as 7 in 2024 and as high as 12 in 2022, and ended 2025 at 8.
A smaller squad usually means each recruit is closer to the lineup, and one injury or transfer changes the team's season more.
| Survey year | Players | Coaches |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 8 | 2 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2 |
| 2022 | 12 | 2 |
| 2023 | 8 | 1 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2 |
| 2025 | 8 | 2 |
How many coaches does Doane University women's tennis have?
Doane University lists 1 head coach and 1 assistant for women's tennis, which works out to about 4 players per coach, 20% below the Great Plains Athletic Conference median of 5.
Fewer players per coach generally means more individual court time with a coach during practice.
What does Doane University spend on women's tennis?
Doane University reported $74,239 in total women's tennis expenses for 2025, 50% below the NAIA median of $148,491.
Day-to-day operating spending on the women's team came to about $1,669 per player in 2025, 18% above the Great Plains Athletic Conference median of $1,413.
Against the NAIA median it is 12% below the NAIA median of $1,900.
Recruiting spending, which EADA reports for all women's sports at the school together rather than for tennis alone, was about $67 per female athlete in 2025, 11% above the NAIA median of $61.
Total women's tennis expenses fell 15% between 2020 and 2025, from $87,170 to $74,239.
NAIA programs may award athletic scholarships, and NAIA eligibility rules differ from the NCAA’s.
What is Doane University like academically?
Doane University is a small private, nonprofit university offering graduate degrees that admits 98% of applicants, open to most applicants by national standards, where the median college admits 78%.
The full cost of attendance is around $57,836 a year, well above the national median of $25,497, but the average family paid about $26,364 after grants and scholarships, in the top quarter nationally, so aid covers roughly 54% of the sticker price on average.
57% of students finish their degree within six years, above the median of 52% and 79% of first-year students return for a second year.
Ten years after enrolling, former students earn a median of $53,316, among the top quarter of colleges.
What can you study at Doane University?
No single field dominates: the largest, Business, Management & Marketing, is 16% of degrees, with Education, Liberal Arts & Sciences and others close behind.
The bachelor's degree programs below awarded the most degrees in the most recent College Scorecard field-of-study data; a recruit should ask the coach how practice and travel fit around a specific major’s lab or clinical hours.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (56 degrees)
- Engineering, General (21 degrees)
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (18 degrees)
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (15 degrees)
- Biology, General (14 degrees)
- Psychology, General (13 degrees)
- Sociology (12 degrees)
- Agricultural Business and Management (12 degrees)
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness (12 degrees)
- Special Education and Teaching (11 degrees)
What is Crete, NE like to live in?
Doane University sits in Crete, a town well outside any metro area of about 7,521 people in Saline County, Nebraska.
Household incomes in Crete run close to both the Nebraska and national medians, around $76,258 a year.
Home values are in step with the rest of Nebraska, around $203,900 and a typical rent of $846 a month is 18% under the state figure.
Getting around is quick: the average commute is 19 minutes against a national average near 27, and most people drive.
It reads as a college town: 10% of residents are 20 to 24, roughly 1.5 times the national share, and the median age of 33 is younger than the country's 39.
17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, fewer than the Nebraska average of 34%.
What other teams does Doane University field?
Doane University also fields one other team with a public profile here.
Program Info
| Division | NAIA |
|---|---|
| Conference | Great Plains Athletic Conference |
| Sport | Women's Tennis |
| Location | Crete, NE |
| Enrollment | 978 |
| Type | private-nonprofit |
| Highest degree | Graduate |
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does Doane University have a women's tennis team?
- Yes. Doane University fields a NAIA women's tennis team in the Great Plains Athletic Conference and reported 8 players in its 2025 Equity in Athletics filing.
- What division is Doane University women's tennis?
- Doane University competes in NAIA in the Great Plains Athletic Conference. NAIA programs may award athletic scholarships, and NAIA eligibility rules differ from the NCAA’s.
- How does the Doane University women's tennis roster compare with other Great Plains Athletic Conference programs?
- With 8 players in 2025, Doane University is 20% below the Great Plains Athletic Conference median of 10, based on 8 Great Plains Athletic Conference programs that reported women's tennis that year.
- How many coaches does the Doane University women's tennis team have?
- 2 on the 2025 filing (1 head, 1 assistant), about 4 players per coach, 20% below the Great Plains Athletic Conference median of 5.
- How much does it cost to attend Doane University?
- The College Scorecard lists an average cost of attendance of $57,836 a year, and an average net price of $26,364 after grants and scholarships. Athletic aid, where the division allows it, comes on top of that and varies by recruit.
- Where is Doane University?
- Doane University is in Crete, NE, in the Plains region, in what the Department of Education classes as a town.
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