Cabrini,Easternshowdifferences in athleticbudgets

by Laura Casamento editor in chief

According to the athletic directors of several area colleges, Cabrini is about average in the money is allocates to its athletic teams.

Eastern College, which among the teams in the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference most closely matches Cabrini in terms of enrollment, location and number of teams, gives its athletic teams a comparably lesser amount of money than Cabrini's athletic department, according to Dr. Dennis Hunt, Eastern•s athletic director.

Cabrini's operating budget comes to a total of $134,070, while Eastem's comes to $89,990.

However, Cabrini fields three more teams than does Eastern, which does not sponsor a women's softball team, a cheerleading team or a men's golf team.

The men's basketball team, unlike Cabrini's, receives the most operating money of all of its teams. Eastern's players are provided a total of $20,623, about $825 per player, which is higher than Cabrini's total of $18,093, which works out to about $603 per player.

At Cabrini, the men's lacrosse team re- ceives the most total money at $19,740, about $658 per player.

Eastern allocates its team $9,275, which breaks down into about $546 for each of its 17 players.

Cabrini's women's basketball team receives $763 per player, which is more than $100 higher than Eastern's $686 per player.

Another notable difference between the two colleges is the amount of money allocated to the women·s volleyball team. Eastem's volleyball team, which finished at the top of the PAC last year, was allocated $10,990, which works out to $916 per player, the most for any individual player at the school.

At Cabrini, where the volleyball team did not finish as strong, the team is given $6,327, about $527 per player.

Compared to Cabrini, Eastern saves about $13,648 by cutting out the softball, golf and cheerleading teams, which it uses to sponsor a men's baseball team. That team receives $11,060 for its operating expenses.

According to Len Schuler, the athletic director at Neumann College in Aston, Pa., the Knight's athletic budget does not specifically allocate money to its teams. Instead, teams can request money based on their needs.

"The money comes into one big umbrella budget," Schuler said. "When a team comes to me and says that they need something, we get it for them."

In other words, Schuler said, if a coach approaches him with a request for new uniforms, for example, he evaluates the re- quest, decides if the uniforms are truly necessary, and gets the money from the college's overall budget.

"We do our best to try to make sure that we meet the needs of each team," Schuler said.

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Sport

Men's Lacrosse

Men's Basketball

Men's Soccer

M's Track/Cross Country

W's Track/Cross Country

Women's Soccer

Women's Field Hockey

Women's BllSketball

Women's Softball

Women'sVolleyball

Women's Lacrosse

Women'sTennis

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Men's

Eastern OE (per player) $9,275 ($546) $20,623 ($825)