Principia College

How big is the Principia College men's tennis roster?

Principia College listed 7 players on its men's tennis roster in its 2025 filing, 42% below the NCAA Division III median of 12.

A smaller squad usually means each recruit is closer to the lineup, and one injury or transfer changes the team's season more.

How many coaches does Principia College men's tennis have?

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%.

More players per coach generally means practice time is shared more widely and an assistant or volunteer coach carries more of the day-to-day work.

What does Principia College spend on men's tennis?

Principia College reported $92,152 in total men's tennis expenses for 2025, 49% above the NCAA Division III median of $61,890.

Day-to-day operating spending on the men's team came to about $3,486 per player in 2025, well above the NCAA Division III median of $1,918, by 82%.

Recruiting spending, which EADA reports for all men's sports at the school together rather than for tennis alone, was about $49 per male athlete in 2025, well below the NCAA Division III median of $120, by 59%.

NCAA Division III programs do not award athletic scholarships; aid at this level is academic and need-based.

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; a recruit should ask the coach how practice and travel fit around a specific major’s lab or clinical hours.

• 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%.

What other teams does Principia College field?

Principia College also fields one other team with a public profile here.

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