Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Investment & Impact
How much does Southern Illinois University Edwardsville spend on women's tennis?
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville reported $279,299 in total women's tennis expenses in the 2025 EADA survey, ranking #338 of 1141 women's tennis programs nationally. Figures are school-reported to the U.S. Department of Education.
Does Southern Illinois University Edwardsville offer athletic scholarships for women's athletes?
In the 2025 EADA survey, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's athletically related student aid averaged about $10,965 per women's athlete across all women's sports. Aid is reported at the school level, not per team.
How much does Southern Illinois University Edwardsville spend on recruiting women's athletes?
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville reported $72,547 in total recruiting expenses for women's teams in the 2025 EADA survey (school-wide, all women's sports).
Can college athletes in Illinois earn NIL money?
Illinois' Student-Athlete Endorsement Rights Act (SB 2338, effective July 2021) permits college athletes to earn NIL compensation. (Verified 2026-06-11; source: https://archive.ihsa.org/documents/forms/2025-26/25-26%20School%20Term%201%20Column.pdf.)
Public DOE EADA filing, 2025 survey · figures are school-reported
How big is the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville women's tennis roster?
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville listed 9 players on its women's tennis roster in its 2025 filing, in line with the Ohio Valley Conference median of 9.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's women's tennis roster has moved around, as low as 9 in 2020 and as high as 11 in 2021, and ended 2025 at 9.
| Survey year | Players | Coaches |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 9 | 1 |
| 2021 | 11 | 1 |
| 2022 | 10 | 1 |
| 2023 | 10 | 1 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 |
How many coaches does Southern Illinois University Edwardsville women's tennis have?
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville lists 1 head coach and 1 assistant for women's tennis, which works out to about 4.5 players per coach, 13% above the NCAA Division I median of 4.
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 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville spend on women's tennis?
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville reported $279,299 in total women's tennis expenses for 2025, 48% below the NCAA Division I median of $539,981.
Day-to-day operating spending on the women's team came to about $5,322 per player in 2025, well below the NCAA Division I median of $10,243, by 48%.
Against the Ohio Valley Conference median it is well above the Ohio Valley Conference median of $3,803, by 40%.
Recruiting spending, which EADA reports for all women's sports at the school together rather than for tennis alone, was about $507 per female athlete in 2025, well below the NCAA Division I median of $1,044, by 51%.
Total women's tennis expenses rose 26% between 2020 and 2025, from $221,527 to $279,299.
Programs at this level may award athletic scholarships, usually as partial awards spread across the roster in tennis.
What is Southern Illinois University Edwardsville like academically?
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is a mid-sized public university offering graduate degrees that admits 98% of applicants, open to most applicants by national standards, where the median college admits 78%.
Admitted students' SAT scores average 1100, so a solid but not exceptional academic record fits the typical admit.
The full cost of attendance is around $28,919 a year, above the national median of $25,497, but the average family paid about $14,889 after grants and scholarships, in the below the median nationally, so aid covers roughly 49% of the sticker price on average.
57% of students finish their degree within six years, above the median of 52% and 76% of first-year students return for a second year.
Ten years after enrolling, former students earn a median of $56,346, among the top quarter of colleges.
What can you study at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville?
Business, Management & Marketing is the largest field at 20% of degrees, followed by Health Professions (19%) and Engineering (9%).
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.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (479 degrees)
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (300 degrees)
- Psychology, General (177 degrees)
- Communication and Media Studies (117 degrees)
- Biology, General (114 degrees)
- Criminal Justice and Corrections (95 degrees)
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (86 degrees)
- Mechanical Engineering (80 degrees)
- Accounting and Related Services (77 degrees)
- Computer Science (72 degrees)
What is Edwardsville, IL like to live in?
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville sits in Edwardsville, a suburb of a large city of about 27,000 people in Madison County, Illinois.
Household incomes in Edwardsville, a median of about $92,671, sit above the Illinois median and likewise above the national one, 18% higher than the country as a whole.
Housing costs more here than in most of Illinois: a typical home is valued around $286,700, 14% above the state median and rents are typical for the state, about $1,231 a month.
Commutes average about 24 minutes, close to the national average, and most people drive.
It reads as a college town: 15% of residents are 20 to 24, roughly 2.3 times the national share, and the median age of 32 is younger than the country's 39.
54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, more than the Illinois average of 37%.
What other teams does Southern Illinois University Edwardsville field?
This is the only Southern Illinois University Edwardsville team with a public profile here so far.
Program Info
| Division | NCAA Division I |
|---|---|
| Conference | Ohio Valley Conference |
| Sport | Women's Tennis |
| Location | Edwardsville, IL |
| Enrollment | 8,750 |
| Type | public |
| Highest degree | Graduate |
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does Southern Illinois University Edwardsville have a women's tennis team?
- Yes. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville fields a NCAA Division I women's tennis team in the Ohio Valley Conference and reported 9 players in its 2025 Equity in Athletics filing.
- What division is Southern Illinois University Edwardsville women's tennis?
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville competes in NCAA Division I in the Ohio Valley Conference. Programs at this level may award athletic scholarships, usually as partial awards spread across the roster in tennis.
- How does the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville women's tennis roster compare with other Ohio Valley Conference programs?
- With 9 players in 2025, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is in line with the Ohio Valley Conference median of 9, based on 7 Ohio Valley Conference programs that reported women's tennis that year.
- How many coaches does the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville women's tennis team have?
- 2 on the 2025 filing (1 head, 1 assistant), about 4.5 players per coach, 13% above the NCAA Division I median of 4.
- How much does it cost to attend Southern Illinois University Edwardsville?
- The College Scorecard lists an average cost of attendance of $28,919 a year, and an average net price of $14,889 after grants and scholarships. Athletic aid, where the division allows it, comes on top of that and varies by recruit.
- Where is Southern Illinois University Edwardsville?
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is in Edwardsville, IL, in the Great Lakes region, in what the Department of Education classes as a suburban area.
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