Western Kentucky University
Investment & Impact
How much does Western Kentucky University spend on women's tennis?
Western Kentucky University reported $387,351 in total women's tennis expenses in the 2025 EADA survey, ranking #244 of 1141 women's tennis programs nationally. Figures are school-reported to the U.S. Department of Education.
Does Western Kentucky University offer athletic scholarships for women's athletes?
In the 2025 EADA survey, Western Kentucky University's athletically related student aid averaged about $16,690 per women's athlete across all women's sports. Aid is reported at the school level, not per team.
How much does Western Kentucky University spend on recruiting women's athletes?
Western Kentucky University reported $118,337 in total recruiting expenses for women's teams in the 2025 EADA survey (school-wide, all women's sports).
Can college athletes in Kentucky earn NIL money?
Kentucky permits college NIL (first via a 2021 executive order), and a March 2025 state law additionally allows schools to enter NIL deals directly with their athletes. (Verified 2026-06-11; source: https://khsaa.org/common_documents/handbook/2024-2025/2024-25%20Handbook-02-Bylaws.pdf.)
Public DOE EADA filing, 2025 survey · figures are school-reported
How big is the Western Kentucky University women's tennis roster?
Western Kentucky University listed 8 players on its women's tennis roster in its 2025 filing, 11% below the NCAA Division I median of 9.
Western Kentucky University's women's tennis roster has moved around, as low as 7 in 2023 and as high as 10 in 2021, 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 | 1 |
| 2021 | 10 | 1 |
| 2022 | 9 | 1 |
| 2023 | 7 | 2 |
| 2024 | 8 | 1 |
| 2025 | 8 | 2 |
How many coaches does Western Kentucky University women's tennis have?
Western Kentucky University lists 1 head coach and 1 assistant for women's tennis, which works out to about 4 players per coach, in line with the Conference USA median of 4.3.
What does Western Kentucky University spend on women's tennis?
Western Kentucky University reported $387,351 in total women's tennis expenses for 2025, 28% below the NCAA Division I median of $539,981.
Day-to-day operating spending on the women's team came to about $10,594 per player in 2025, in line with the NCAA Division I median of $10,243.
Recruiting spending, which EADA reports for all women's sports at the school together rather than for tennis alone, was about $962 per female athlete in 2025, well above the Conference USA median of $737, by 31%.
Total women's tennis expenses have swung between $303,293 (2023) and $430,785 (2024) without a clear direction.
Programs at this level may award athletic scholarships, usually as partial awards spread across the roster in tennis.
What is Western Kentucky University like academically?
Western Kentucky University is a large public university offering graduate degrees that admits 94% of applicants, open to most applicants by national standards, where the median college admits 78%.
Admitted students' SAT scores average 971.
The full cost of attendance is around $24,188 a year, close to the national median of $25,497, but the average family paid about $10,990 after grants and scholarships, in the below the median nationally, so aid covers roughly 55% of the sticker price on average.
Tuition is $11,652 for KY residents and $27,000 for out-of-state students, a difference that matters when an athletic scholarship covers a fixed share.
56% of students finish their degree within six years, above the median of 52% and 78% of first-year students return for a second year.
Ten years after enrolling, former students earn a median of $43,889, above the median of $40,747.
What can you study at Western Kentucky University?
No single field dominates: the largest, Business, Management & Marketing, is 19% of degrees, with Health Professions, 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.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (209 degrees)
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (170 degrees)
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (138 degrees)
- Marketing (136 degrees)
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods (131 degrees)
- Psychology, General (118 degrees)
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness (116 degrees)
- Biology, General (102 degrees)
- Social Work (87 degrees)
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication (87 degrees)
What is Bowling Green, KY like to live in?
Western Kentucky University sits in Bowling Green, a small city of about 74,000 people in Warren County, Kentucky.
The median household in Bowling Green earns about $48,419, which is below the Kentucky median ($62,417) but far below the national median ($78,538).
Housing costs more here than in most of Kentucky: a typical home is valued around $232,100, 21% above the state median and rents are typical for the state, about $948 a month.
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: 16% of residents are 20 to 24, roughly 2.5 times the national share, and the median age of 28 is younger than the country's 39.
32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, more than the Kentucky average of 27%.
What other teams does Western Kentucky University field?
This is the only Western Kentucky University team with a public profile here so far.
Program Info
| Division | NCAA Division I |
|---|---|
| Conference | Conference USA |
| Sport | Women's Tennis |
| Location | Bowling Green, KY |
| Enrollment | 12,155 |
| Type | public |
| Highest degree | Graduate |
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does Western Kentucky University have a women's tennis team?
- Yes. Western Kentucky University fields a NCAA Division I women's tennis team in the Conference USA and reported 8 players in its 2025 Equity in Athletics filing.
- What division is Western Kentucky University women's tennis?
- Western Kentucky University competes in NCAA Division I in the Conference USA. Programs at this level may award athletic scholarships, usually as partial awards spread across the roster in tennis.
- How does the Western Kentucky University women's tennis roster compare with other NCAA Division I programs?
- With 8 players in 2025, Western Kentucky University is 11% below the NCAA Division I median of 9, based on 305 NCAA Division I programs that reported women's tennis that year.
- How many coaches does the Western Kentucky University women's tennis team have?
- 2 on the 2025 filing (1 head, 1 assistant), about 4 players per coach, in line with the Conference USA median of 4.3.
- How much does it cost to attend Western Kentucky University?
- The College Scorecard lists an average cost of attendance of $24,188 a year, and an average net price of $10,990 after grants and scholarships. Athletic aid, where the division allows it, comes on top of that and varies by recruit.
- Where is Western Kentucky University?
- Western Kentucky University is in Bowling Green, KY, in the Southeast region, in what the Department of Education classes as a city.
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