VARSITY PROGRAM INFORMATION

Below are the responses to the final open-ended question asking coaches to share additional thoughts/context to the answers they provided to the questions above. Any identifiable information (primarily the names of universities/nicknames of teams) has been removed to keep things anonymous.

• The budget listed is half of the total operating budget since we are funded as one team alongside the women's program.

• We don't have a cap because I don't think we'll ever reach a number large enough to warrant it since we can only support people who apply early decision (who in turn we can guarantee admission after pre-read clearance from admissions).

• Our program must fundraise to have a full season. We have separate operating and fundraising accounts from our women's openweight program.

• Men and women share a budget of $80,000. This does not include a "championship" budget.

• Through 2024 the rowing team operated on donations alone (minus coaching salaries). There was one large annual donation and one moderate donation followed by fundraisers by the alumni and current team. The ‘24-’25 season is the first time the University has provided 75k for the men's rowing operating budget.

• Many fundraising events are for both the men's and the women's team concurrently.

• We have an endowment but it covers all coaching salaries and is for both the men’s and women’s programs.

• The budget reported is half of our total budget. We split with the women's team and some year either team may get a little more of the funds depending on the teams speed. The men's and women's team work, travel, fundraise, and are run simultaneously. Two full time coaches coach all boats and two part time coaches spread throughout the team as well.

• We’re given a budget of $48K. Everything else is based on fundraising. Last year, we raised $35K.

• In terms of operational budget, we're budgeted for $40,250 and fundraise the overage. FY24 saw an overage of $2,300. This budget does not include Dad Vail or IRA travel expenses as those are covered by the department's championship budget.

• The roster cap is a travel roster. We are able to carry more athletes than the travel cap.

• We do not have a primary endowment but we have 15 endowments that support coaching, equipment, operations, and scholarships. Total market value is $7.4m. Our budget is shared with the lightweights so some operation costs are not broken out per squad and is only an estimate.

• I do not have an idea on the size of the endowment and it seems like the university doesn't fully know the information due to staff having left the department over the last few years.

• All fundraising and endowment dollars are split between heavyweight and women's crew. If someone donates to heavyweight crew, they are really donating to both programs equally. The only exception is equipment that would go towards one team.

• The entire athletic department budget is presently funded by revenue sports (football, basketball) and department wide endowments. With NIL/House Lawsuit, access to funds is being redirected to revenue sports and could change the funding model Olympic sports use in the near future. In the last 5 years our roster size has been reduced from 80 down to 40 to save money.

• Full budget is $110,000 and shared with our women’s squad. All of our recruiting support is basically soft support but we have no number of set slots. Our support is not 100% effective but has only failed 3 times in my time here.

• We are a budding program that had previously been put into the ground. We have one coaching staff for both of the men’s and women’s teams. The $40,000 is what is allocated to the men’s team budget. Even getting uniforms is a struggle for us. We had a very successful fundraising year last year but that money goes to the department at large. I cannot draw from that pot at all. Our budget did not increase despite raising $96,000 last year.

• Our budget covers the men and women’s teams, and our men's roster is about 1/3rd of the total roster, so all of my budgeting numbers are 1/3rd of my total budget.

• We do not have an admissions cap - essentially, we are asked to recruit as many students as possible. Like at other small liberal arts schools, athletics is critical in driving overall enrollment.

• We will have a roster cap in FY26, I don't know what that will be yet.

• With the changes in NCAA roster caps it looks like our roster cap will go up next year, although it isn't official yet.