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Women’s basketball · California CC (CCCAA)

Sierra College

Rocklin, California · Public institution · 6,520 students

Listed squad
16
players in the 2025-26 federal return
Athletic aid to women
Not permitted
CCCAA rules forbid it
Published cost
Recorded
2023-24, available with a free account
Selectivity
Not recorded
no admissions data held

Does it field a women’s basketball team?

Yes. Sierra 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.

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

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.

Athlavia holds the cost breakdown

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
Public
Enrolment
6,520
Selectivity
Not recorded
City
Rocklin
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.
  • Agricultural Business and Management.
  • Agriculture, General.
  • Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions.
  • American Sign Language.
  • Anthropology.
  • Apparel and Textiles.
  • Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians.
  • 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.
  • Communication and Media Studies.
  • Computer Programming.
  • Computer Science.
  • Computer Software and Media Applications.
  • Computer Systems Analysis.
  • Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications.
  • Computer and Information Sciences, General.
  • Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections.
  • Data Entry/Microcomputer Applications.
  • Design and Applied Arts.
  • Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
  • Economics.
  • Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians.
  • Energy Systems Technologies/Technicians.
  • Engineering, General.
  • 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.
  • Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.
  • General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations.
  • Geography and Cartography.
  • Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
  • Graphic Communications.
  • Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General.
  • Health/Medical Preparatory Programs.
  • History.
  • Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
  • Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians.
  • Journalism.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
  • Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services.
  • Mathematics.
  • Music.
  • Natural Resources Conservation and Research.
  • Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Studies.
  • Philosophy.
  • Physics.
  • Political Science and Government.
  • Precision Metal Working.
  • Psychology, General.
  • Real Estate.
  • Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.
  • Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Social Sciences, General.
  • Sociology.
  • Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
  • 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. Sierra 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%
recruitingBand36-562025-26ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($3,772/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 46). Division is not used as an input.12 Aug 202655%
Degrees69 undergraduate degrees listed, including Agriculture, General., Agricultural Business and Management., Natural Resources Conservation and Research.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 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.