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Women’s basketball · NCAA Division III · Ohio Athletic Conference

Otterbein University

Westerville, Ohio · Private institution · 2,064 students

Listed squad
21
players in the 2025-26 federal return
Athletic aid to women
Not permitted
NCAA DIII rules forbid it
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. Otterbein University reported 21 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 III and in the Ohio Athletic Conference. It is one of 21 NCAA DIII women's basketball programmes in Ohio, out of 63 programmes there in total.

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

Athlavia holds 2 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 not permitted here

NCAA Division III does not permit athletically-related student aid of any kind. A Division III programme can still be an excellent destination, but no basketball scholarship exists at one — the money there is academic and need-based aid.

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 NCAA DIII institution is describing something the rules do not allow.

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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A single yearly total tells a family almost nothing. What decides whether a place is reachable is which line is the big one, and whether the international rate differs — so Athlavia shows the lines, not a headline.

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Type
Private
Enrolment
2,064
Selectivity
Held — free account
City
Westerville
State or region
Ohio
Country
United States
Campus setting
suburban
Climate
Not recorded
International share
1%

Degrees recorded here

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

  • Accounting and Related Services.
  • Agricultural and Domestic Animal Services.
  • Agriculture/Veterinary Preparatory Programs.
  • Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
  • Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
  • Biology, General.
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations.
  • Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Other.
  • Business/Corporate Communications.
  • Chemistry.
  • Communication and Media Studies.
  • Computer and Information Sciences, General.
  • Criminology.
  • Design and Applied Arts.
  • Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
  • Economics.
  • Education, General.
  • Engineering Physics.
  • English Language and Literature, General.
  • English Language and Literature/Letters, Other.
  • Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering.
  • Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
  • Finance and Financial Management Services.
  • Fine and Studio Arts.
  • Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
  • History.
  • Human Resources Management and Services.
  • International Business.
  • International Relations and National Security Studies.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
  • Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.
  • Marketing.
  • Mathematics.
  • Mechanical Engineering.
  • Music.
  • Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
  • Philosophy and Religious Studies, General.
  • Philosophy.
  • Physics.
  • Political Science and Government.
  • Psychology, General.
  • Public Administration.
  • Public Health.
  • Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.
  • Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
  • Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
  • Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Sociology.
  • Special Education and Teaching.
  • Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
  • Sustainability Studies.
  • Systems Engineering.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.
  • Veterinary/Animal Health Technologies/Technicians.
  • Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management.

How it compares

Across the 399 NCAA DIII women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 16 players. Otterbein University lists 21, 5 players above that average. Among the 21 NCAA DIII programmes in Ohio, it has the 6th 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 size212025-26ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball12 Aug 202696%
recruitingBand12-322025-26ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($2,317/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 22). Division is not used as an input.12 Aug 202655%
Degrees56 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agricultural and Domestic Animal Services., Agriculture/Veterinary Preparatory Programs., Veterinary/Animal Health Technologies/Technicians.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.