DIVISION II MEANS
access to championships
n Division
“Division II coaches often recruit
prospects who are persuaded by the
opportunity to compete for a national
championship, and they know that those
chances are more plentiful in Division II.”
– Mark Corino, Director of Athletics,
Caldwell University
II sponsors and fully funds 25
national championships – 12 in men’s
sports and 13 in women’s sports – that
annually give more than 16,000 studentathletes the experience of a lifetime.
n Of the three NCAA divisions, Division II
provides its student-athletes with the most
access to championships competition
(one championships opportunity for
approximately every seven student-athletes).
n Many
Division II sports have large
championship brackets, which means there
are seve ral berths for each of the division’s
eight competition regions. Division
II athletics are not driven by revenue
generation, which affords schools the
luxury of not having to take on a corporate
mentality in order to fund their programs.
n Division
II is the only NCAA division that
conducts National Championships Festivals,
an Olympic-style event in which a number
of national championships are held at a
single site during a period of several days.
DID YOU KNOW?
Division II annually receives 4.37
percent of all NCAA revenue, as
guaranteed by the NCAA constitution.
As the chart demonstrates, most of
those allocations go to championship
opportunities for student-athletes.
2014-15 Division II Budget
$6,000,000
Strategic Initiatives
and Other Programs
$5,900,000
Enhancement Fund
$22,100,000
Championships
$3,200,000
Conference Grants