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Women’s basketball · California CC (CCCAA)

San Diego Mesa College

San Diego, California · Public institution · 2,812 students

Listed squad
11
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. San Diego Mesa College reported 11 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.

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 San Diego Mesa 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
2,812
Selectivity
Not recorded
City
San Diego
State or region
California
Country
United States
Campus setting
city
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.
  • Agricultural Production Operations.
  • Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
  • Allied Health and Medical Assisting Services.
  • American Sign Language.
  • Anthropology.
  • Apparel and Textiles.
  • Archeology.
  • Architectural Sciences and Technology.
  • 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.
  • Chemistry.
  • Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions.
  • Communication and Media Studies.
  • Computer Science.
  • Computer Software and Media Applications.
  • Computer and Information Sciences, General.
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections.
  • Culinary Arts and Related Services.
  • Dance.
  • Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.
  • Design and Applied Arts.
  • Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
  • East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Economics.
  • Electrical and Power Transmission Installers.
  • Electromechanical Technologies/Technicians.
  • Engineering, General.
  • Engineering/Engineering-Related Technologies/Technicians, Other.
  • English Language and Literature, General.
  • Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.
  • Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians.
  • Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
  • Film/Video and Photographic Arts.
  • Fine and Studio Arts.
  • Fire Protection.
  • Food Science and Technology.
  • 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.
  • Graphic Communications.
  • Health and Medical Administrative Services.
  • Health and Medical Administrative Services.
  • Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Technologies/Technicians.
  • History.
  • Hospitality Administration/Management.
  • Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
  • Human Services, General.
  • Journalism.
  • Legal Support Services.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
  • Mathematics.
  • Music.
  • Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
  • Philosophy.
  • Physical Sciences, General.
  • Physics.
  • Political Science and Government.
  • Precision Metal Working.
  • Psychology, General.
  • Real Estate.
  • Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Social Sciences, General.
  • Sociology.
  • Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations.
  • Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
  • Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
  • Veterinary/Animal Health 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. San Diego Mesa College lists 11, 2 players below that average. Among the 92 CCCAA programmes in California, it has the 56th 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 size112025-26ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball12 Aug 202696%
recruitingBand1-212025-26ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($1,684/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 11). Division is not used as an input.12 Aug 202655%
Degrees76 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agricultural Production Operations., Food Science and Technology., Veterinary/Animal Health Technologies/Technicians.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.