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Post by slackerdad on Dec 20, 2016 14:59:08 GMT -5
I was reading the results of the 2016 AVCA survey that had responses from 56 schools with beach programs. According the to results, 13 schools are fully funded with 6 scholarships and another 15 schools offer less than 5 scholarships. Keep in mind that beach volleyball is an equivalency sport, so these scholarships can be dividing among many players. Many schools have indoor players receiving full aid on their beach roster.
The number of beach players receiving aid in 2016 grew by 52% from 2015. More than 3x as many women received beach aid last year than in 2013. This is good to hear especially in at a time where many athletic departments are cutting programs and funding, most notably at public institutions. Beach volleyball is a relatively inexpensive program to run, so I expect to see more schools add programs to satisfy Title IX.
213 women (out of 363 beach-only athletes) divvyed up 111.5 equivalency grants. This implies the average aid is about a bit more than a half-scholarship for those that get any money. If one considers any offer for aid to be "serious recruiting", that sounds like more than 50 (and growing) beach-only athletes are recruited each year. Anyone want to guess how many full-scholarships are offered?
I'm trying to figure out which schools are the full funded ones. Here's the final 2016 Dig Collegiate Volleyball Poll:
1. USC
2. Florida State
3. UCLA
4. Hawaii
5. Pepperdine
6. Arizona
7. Georgia State
8. Stetson
9. Long Beach State
10. LSU
11. Grand Canyon
12. North Florida
13. Florida International
14. Tulane
15. San Francisco
16. California
17. St. Mary’s
18. New Mexico
19. Florida Atlantic
20. South Carolina
Others receiving votes:
TCU, Washington, Nebraska, Loyola Marymount
Anyone think other than #1 through #13 are the fully-funded schools with 6 scholarships? Do Stanford, Arizona State, College of Charleston, Santa Clara offer some aid?
If you are curious, maybe you can compare the indoor and beach rosters and figure how many beach only athletes each school has. I'm guessing there's a strong correlation between the number of beach-only athletes on the roster and the number of scholarships in use.
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Post by johnbar on Dec 20, 2016 15:48:53 GMT -5
Stanford definitely offers scholarships, and I think as of this year, they may have the full 6.
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Post by FOBRA on Dec 20, 2016 15:54:28 GMT -5
Stanford definitely offers scholarships, and I think as of this year, they may have the full 6. I was just listening to an interview with Fuller and he doesn't have the full 6 currently. It sounded like they're adding them gradually until they hit 6, but didn't have a specific timeline. I think USC/Florida State/Pepperdine have 6? Not sure anyone else does right now. |
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Post by slackerdad on Dec 20, 2016 16:45:45 GMT -5
Stanford definitely offers scholarships, and I think as of this year, they may have the full 6. I was just listening to an interview with Fuller and he doesn't have the full 6 currently. It sounded like they're adding them gradually until they hit 6, but didn't have a specific timeline. I think USC/Florida State/Pepperdine have 6? Not sure anyone else does right now. Per the AVCA 2016 survey, 13 schools used 6 scholarships for the 2015-2016 season. 12 schools that were not fully funded plan to add more funding within the next 2 years. So within 2 years, you could have as many as 25 schools fully funding or more if new schools go in full throttle. |
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Post by FOBRA on Dec 20, 2016 16:53:05 GMT -5
Per the AVCA 2016 survey, 13 schools used 6 scholarships for the 2015-2016 season. 12 schools that were not fully funded plan to add more funding within the next 2 years. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I'm pretty sure UCLA and Long Beach State aren't fully funded, of the top 13. I'm not sure Arizona is yet either. Honestly I was surprised by the results on that poll. Edit to add: Now that it's an official NCAA sport, I'd expect more schools to fund scholarships over the next few years. |
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Post by slackerdad on Dec 20, 2016 17:18:08 GMT -5
With the budget cuts in California, I wouldn't surprise me if UCLA, LBSU & Cal weren't fully funded.
So if you take the top 17 from the poll minus those 3 schools, you think those are the 13 schools? It USF & St Mary's fully fund, I would suspect LMU, Santa Clara and UOP would too since they are in the same conference and have similar athletic programs.
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Post by geddyleeridesagain on Dec 20, 2016 21:54:34 GMT -5
If UCLA isn't fully funded, they're very close to it. LBSU is nowhere near fully funded, nor are Cal, St. Mary's, USF, Santa Clara, LMU, or Stanford. I don't know about Pacific, but I doubt they have many schollies to hand out.
Fully funded - USC, Pepp, Hawaii, Arizona, Florida State, TCU, South Carolina, FIU, North Florida (I think), Stetson (I think), Tulane...probably Georgia St...maybe Grand Canyon.
And the number of kids on a full ride is a small handful.
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Post by c4ndlelight on Dec 20, 2016 22:31:29 GMT -5
I'm surprised a full 13 are fully funded with scholarships. Is there anybody playing in USC's league as far as resources overall go?
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Post by geddyleeridesagain on Dec 20, 2016 23:14:03 GMT -5
I'm surprised a full 13 are fully funded with scholarships. Is there anybody playing in USC's league as far as resources overall go? Florida State probably has at least an equal budget, if not bigger, compared to USC. South Carolina, TCU, Tulane are putting a lot of money into the sport (they haven't seen the results yet, but it's early). UCLA, FIU and Arizona as well. Pepp and Hawaii aren't cheaping out either. |
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Post by pnw_mark on Dec 21, 2016 10:20:31 GMT -5
Texas A&M Kingsville signed a few girls to beach scholarships (one girl locally here in the Northwest). Texas has the weather for the most part, wouldn't be surprised if more add the sport in that state. Currently I know of TCU, Houston Baptist, Kingsville, Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi.. but I don't know whether Corpus has signed anybody.
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Post by newbeach on Jan 1, 2017 0:45:41 GMT -5
If UCLA isn't fully funded, they're very close to it. LBSU is nowhere near fully funded, nor are Cal, St. Mary's, USF, Santa Clara, LMU, or Stanford. I don't know about Pacific, but I doubt they have many schollies to hand out. Fully funded - USC, Pepp, Hawaii, Arizona, Florida State, TCU, South Carolina, FIU, North Florida (I think), Stetson (I think), Tulane...probably Georgia St...maybe Grand Canyon. And the number of kids on a full ride is a small handful. Hawaii is not fully funded. To my knowledge they had one player last year on full scholarship (German player who is not returning for 2017). Not sure what the 2017 situation is. |
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Post by geddyleeridesagain on Jan 1, 2017 13:33:56 GMT -5
If UCLA isn't fully funded, they're very close to it. LBSU is nowhere near fully funded, nor are Cal, St. Mary's, USF, Santa Clara, LMU, or Stanford. I don't know about Pacific, but I doubt they have many schollies to hand out. Fully funded - USC, Pepp, Hawaii, Arizona, Florida State, TCU, South Carolina, FIU, North Florida (I think), Stetson (I think), Tulane...probably Georgia St...maybe Grand Canyon. And the number of kids on a full ride is a small handful. Hawaii is not fully funded. To my knowledge they had one player last year on full scholarship (German player who is not returning for 2017). Not sure what the 2017 situation is. Schreiber left? Didn't know that. At any rate, there are currently half a dozen or so players on Hawaii's roster getting some level of scholarship money, including at least one kid on a full ride. |
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Post by nuvbisno1 on Jan 3, 2017 17:27:09 GMT -5
Texas A&M Kingsville is fully funded with scholarships and is building a new outdoor sports complex with 6 competition beach courts.
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Post by geddyleeridesagain on Jan 3, 2017 20:43:16 GMT -5
Texas A&M Kingsville is fully funded with scholarships and is building a new outdoor sports complex with 6 competition beach courts. Really? Glad to hear it. But I'm not embarrassed to say I have no idea where Kingsville is located. Edit: Ahh, down by Corpus Christi. And they're the Javalena's, which is an awesome mascot. |
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Post by lovethisgame on Jan 7, 2017 14:58:07 GMT -5
Hawaii IS fully funded.
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