![]() ![]() “I’m happy to give them the money they deserve,” she said. Gerckens said she’s excited to be able to offer incoming athletes financial aid. “With a number of these gals, they had no reason to say no.” “When it came to the money, I could compete. Included among those is current freshman Ciara Franke, a standout player from La Jolla High who had numerous offers from Div. Kreutzkamp said he believes 50 to 75 percent of his most recent recruits signed because they could get scholarship money. Some of the coaches have aggressively dived into using their allotment, while others are being more conservative. The total scholarship pool has been projected at $5.8 million, with the money being raised through a fee increase to fund athletics approved by students in May 2016. Another third will follow in 2019, and the final third comes in 2020. Other sports will get smaller portions of funding, according to UCSD Athletic Director Earl Edwards.Ĭoaches have been given one-third of their scholarship allotment for 2018. Of the 23 sports programs at UCSD, 10 will be fully funded by 2020 - baseball, softball and the men’s and women’s teams in basketball, soccer, volleyball and water polo. “And then the conversation turns to the other schools and what they’ve been offered, and I tell them we don’t have money.” I and have scholarships,” Kreutzkamp said. “When the recruiting process starts, about 90 percent of the people who reach out to me already think we’re Div. Other Tritons coaches can reel off in the dozens the athletes they’ve relinquished to schools with similar academic standards - Stanford, Cal, most of the UCs, military academies, and the Ivy League. Olen estimated he lost a half-dozen players per year to other schools when they would have been a strong fit at UCSD. So there is a little bit of that stigma to Div. I basketball,” men’s basketball head coach Eric Olen said. “When you talk to a high school recruit and his parents, they’ve grown up dreaming of playing Div. II, with no chance for athletes to regularly be on TV or reach the pinnacles of their sport, such as March Madness or the College World Series. ![]() Possibly just as big a factor: UCSD was Div. Other than small stipends, UCSD has never offered scholarships at a university that in 2018-19 will cost an estimated $31,095 per year for California residents and $59,109 for out-of-state students. “That’s where the conversation ended,” Kreutzkamp said. But in some cases, the decision came down to two factors that UCSD couldn’t control: scholarship money and program status. That was plenty to get an enthusiastic handshake from many families. News and World Report rankings) its location near the cliffs of La Jolla and its long history of athletic success. They sold their school on its highly ranked academics (tied for ninth among public universities in the latest U.S. In the past, they’ve targeted top-level students and accomplished athletes. Every UCSD coach has similar stories about recruiting. ![]()
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