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Women’s basketball · California CC (CCCAA)

American River College

Sacramento, California · Public institution · 5,052 students

Listed squad
16
players in the 2025-26 federal return
Athletic aid to women
Not permitted
CCCAA rules forbid it
Published cost
Not recorded
no cost snapshot held
Selectivity
Not recorded
no admissions data held

Does it field a women’s basketball team?

Yes. American River College reported 16 women’s basketball participants in the Equity in Athletics return it filed for 2025-26. That is the institution’s own count of the squad, not a roster page Athlavia has read, and it is the figure the United States Department of Education publishes.

It competes in California CC (CCCAA), and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 92 CCCAA women's basketball programmes in California, out of 161 programmes there in total.

The athletics department’s own site is where the current roster and coaching staff are published.

Can it award a basketball scholarship?

Athletic scholarships are not permitted here

The California Community College Athletic Association forbids athletic scholarships outright. What makes these colleges affordable is low tuition and state fee waivers — not athletic aid, and a recruiter who implies otherwise is wrong.

Money is still available here: academic awards, need-based grants and institutional bursaries. What does not exist is an award made because of basketball. A recruiter offering one at a CCCAA institution is describing something the rules do not allow.

What it costs and what it is like

No cost snapshot is held for American River College. Athlavia will not print an estimate in its place — tuition varies by residency, by course and by year, and a made-up number is worse than an empty one. The institution’s own admissions pages carry the published figures.

Type
Public
Enrolment
5,052
Selectivity
Not recorded
City
Sacramento
State or region
California
Country
United States
Campus setting
suburban
Climate
Not recorded
International share
0%

Degrees recorded here

Only the courses Athlavia has read and tagged. It is not the institution’s full prospectus.

  • Accounting and Related Services.
  • Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
  • American Sign Language.
  • Anthropology.
  • Apparel and Textiles.
  • Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services.
  • Area Studies.
  • Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians.
  • Behavioral Sciences.
  • Biological and Physical Sciences.
  • Biology, General.
  • Building/Construction Finishing, Management, and Inspection.
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations.
  • Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.
  • Business/Commerce, General.
  • Carpenters.
  • Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.
  • Communication and Media Studies.
  • Computer Programming.
  • Computer Science.
  • Computer Software and Media Applications.
  • Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications.
  • Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections.
  • Culinary Arts and Related Services.
  • Dance.
  • Data Entry/Microcomputer Applications.
  • Design and Applied Arts.
  • Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
  • Economics.
  • Electrical and Power Transmission Installers.
  • Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
  • Electromechanical Technologies/Technicians.
  • Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General.
  • Engineering, General.
  • English Language and Literature, General.
  • Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
  • Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
  • Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
  • Fine and Studio Arts.
  • Fire Protection.
  • Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.
  • Funeral Service and Mortuary Science.
  • General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations.
  • Geography and Cartography.
  • Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
  • Graphic Communications.
  • Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
  • History.
  • Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
  • Human Services, General.
  • International Relations and National Security Studies.
  • Journalism.
  • Legal Support Services.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
  • Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
  • Mathematics.
  • Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
  • Music.
  • Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
  • Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Studies.
  • Philosophy.
  • Physical Sciences, General.
  • Physics.
  • Plumbing and Related Water Supply Services.
  • Political Science and Government.
  • Precision Metal Working.
  • Psychology, General.
  • Psychology, Other.
  • Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
  • Real Estate.
  • Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
  • Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
  • Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Social Sciences, General.
  • Sociology.
  • Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
  • Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
  • Visual and Performing Arts, General.

How it compares

Across the 92 CCCAA women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 13 players. American River College lists 16, 3 players above that average. Among the 92 CCCAA programmes in California, it has the 8th largest listed squad.

Squad size is a fact about the return, not a judgement about the programme. A large squad can mean depth or it can mean a long bench; a small one can mean minutes are available or that the roster is already settled. It is a question to ask a coach, not an answer.

Where these figures came from

FieldValueSourceRetrievedConfidence
Squad size162025-26ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball12 Aug 202696%
athleticsUrlhttps://www.arcbeavers.comarc.losrios.eduFollowed an athletics link from https://www.arc.losrios.edu/ and confirmed the destination reads as an athletics site12 Aug 202672%
recruitingBand0-142025-26ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($957/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 4). Division is not used as an input.12 Aug 202655%
Degrees81 undergraduate degrees listed, including Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services., Natural Resources Conservation and Research., Area Studies.collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.programs.cip_4_digit, undergraduate credentials only12 Aug 202690%
institutionProfileheld — free accountapi.data.govCollege Scorecard v1 /schools, fields school.locale, location.lat, location.lon, latest.student.demographics.race_ethnicity.non_resident_alien, school.school_url read verbatim12 Aug 202692%

Every stored fact carries the source it came from, the date it was read and how it was extracted. Figures shown on this page without a row above are recorded with the source on the record itself — the athletic aid figure, for instance, carries the Department of Education’s athletics site as its source.