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Women’s basketball · NCAA Division II · Great Northwest Athletic Conference

Central Washington University

Ellensburg, Washington · Public institution · 6,784 students

Listed squad
14
players in the 2025-26 federal return
Athletic aid to women
Recorded
figure available with a free account
Published cost
Recorded
2023-24, available with a free account
Selectivity
Recorded
available with a free account

Does it field a women’s basketball team?

Yes. Central Washington University reported 14 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 NCAA Division II and in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference. It is one of 4 NCAA DII women's basketball programmes in Washington, out of 39 programmes there in total.

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

Athlavia holds 4 email addresses for this coaching staff

Read from the department’s own published staff directory, checked against it again on a schedule, and shown with the page and date they came from. Athlavia drafts the approach for you and you send it yourself, from your own address.

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Can it award a basketball scholarship?

Athletic scholarships are permitted

NCAA Division II rules permit athletically-related student aid. Division II is an equivalency division, so the permitted aid can be divided across a squad and a partial award is ordinary rather than a disappointment.

Central Washington University reported athletically-related student aid awarded to women in its most recent federal return. The amount is the total across every women’s sport at the institution — basketball, and also volleyball, soccer, track, swimming and the rest. It is not a basketball budget, and it is not what one player receives.

Athlavia holds the reported figure

Read alone it is routinely mistaken for a per-player offer. Inside Athlavia it sits next to the squad size, the division's own limits and the published cost, which is the only way it means anything.

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It is one of 35 institutions in Washington whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 39 that field women’s basketball at all.

What it costs and what it is like

A published cost is held for 2023-24: tuition, mandatory fees, room and board, insurance and a travel estimate, with the international tuition rate separately where the institution publishes one.

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Type
Public
Enrolment
6,784
Selectivity
Held — free account
City
Ellensburg
State or region
Washington
Country
United States
Campus setting
rural
Climate
Not recorded
International share
2%

Degrees recorded here

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

  • Accounting and Related Services.
  • Air Transportation.
  • Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
  • Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.
  • American Sign Language.
  • Anthropology.
  • Apparel and Textiles.
  • Applied Mathematics.
  • Area Studies.
  • Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management.
  • Behavioral Sciences.
  • Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education.
  • Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
  • Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other.
  • Biology, General.
  • Botany/Plant Biology.
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations.
  • Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.
  • Business/Commerce, General.
  • Business/Managerial Economics.
  • Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences.
  • Chemistry.
  • Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.
  • Communication and Media Studies.
  • Computer Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Computer Science.
  • Computer Software and Media Applications.
  • Computer and Information Sciences, General.
  • Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
  • Construction Engineering Technology/Technician.
  • Construction Management.
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections.
  • Culinary Arts and Related Services.
  • Dance.
  • Data Analytics.
  • Data Science.
  • Design and Applied Arts.
  • Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services.
  • Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
  • East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology.
  • Economics.
  • Education, General.
  • Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Energy Systems Technologies/Technicians.
  • Engineering Physics.
  • English Language and Literature, General.
  • Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
  • Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
  • Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General.
  • Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, Other.
  • Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
  • Finance and Financial Management Services.
  • Fine and Studio Arts.
  • Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.
  • General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations.
  • Geography and Cartography.
  • Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
  • Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Gerontology.
  • Health/Medical Preparatory Programs.
  • History.
  • Hospitality Administration/Management.
  • Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
  • Human Resources Management and Services.
  • Human Services, General.
  • Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians.
  • Insurance.
  • Journalism.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
  • Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
  • Management Information Systems and Services.
  • Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.
  • Marketing.
  • Mathematics.
  • Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians.
  • Mechanical Engineering.
  • Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
  • Microbiological Sciences and Immunology.
  • Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.
  • Museology/Museum Studies.
  • Music.
  • Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
  • Natural Sciences.
  • Non-Professional Legal Studies.
  • Nutrition Sciences.
  • Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management.
  • Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Studies.
  • Philosophy and Religious Studies, General.
  • Philosophy.
  • Physical Sciences, General.
  • Physics.
  • Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences.
  • Political Science and Government.
  • Psychology, General.
  • Public Health.
  • Public Policy Analysis.
  • Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
  • Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians.
  • Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
  • Religion/Religious Studies.
  • Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
  • Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Social Sciences, General.
  • Sociology.
  • Special Education and Teaching.
  • Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations.
  • Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
  • Visual and Performing Arts, General.
  • Zoology/Animal Biology.

How it compares

Across the 293 NCAA DII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 17 players. Central Washington University lists 14, 3 players below that average. Among the 4 NCAA DII programmes in Washington, it has the 1st 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 size142025-26ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball12 Aug 202696%
recruitingBand71-912025-26ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($12,515/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 81). Division is not used as an input.12 Aug 202655%
Degrees113 undergraduate degrees listed, including Natural Resources Conservation and Research., Area Studies., Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.programs.cip_4_digit, undergraduate credentials only12 Aug 202690%
Tuitionheld — free account2023-24collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard fields latest.cost.tuition.in_state and latest.cost.tuition.out_of_state12 Aug 202692%
costOfAttendanceheld — free account2023-24collegescorecard.ed.govCollege Scorecard field latest.cost.roomboard.oncampus12 Aug 202692%
institutionProfileheld — free accountapi.data.govCollege Scorecard v1 /schools, fields latest.admissions.admission_rate.overall, school.locale, location.lat, location.lon, latest.student.demographics.race_ethnicity.non_resident_alien 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. Check it at the source.