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Women’s basketball · NJCAA (junior college)

South Mountain Community College

Phoenix, Arizona · Public institution · 1,394 students

Listed squad
10
players in the 2025-26 federal return
Athletic aid to women
Recorded
figure available with a free account
Published cost
Not recorded
no cost snapshot held
Selectivity
Not recorded
no admissions data held

Does it field a women’s basketball team?

Yes. South Mountain Community College reported 10 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 NJCAA (junior college), and no conference affiliation is recorded here. It is one of 13 NJCAA women's basketball programmes in Arizona, out of 20 programmes there in total.

Can it award a basketball scholarship?

Athletic scholarships are permitted

NJCAA Divisions I and II permit athletically-related student aid; Division III does not. The federal return records the association but not the division, so this page does not state which applies here.

South Mountain Community College 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 18 institutions in Arizona whose return reports athletic aid awarded to women, out of 20 that field women’s basketball at all.

What it costs and what it is like

No cost snapshot is held for South Mountain Community 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
1,394
Selectivity
Not recorded
City
Phoenix
State or region
Arizona
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.
  • Anthropology.
  • Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management.
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology.
  • Behavioral Sciences.
  • Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
  • Biology, General.
  • Building/Construction Finishing, Management, and Inspection.
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations.
  • Business Operations Support and Assistant Services.
  • Business/Commerce, General.
  • Chemistry.
  • Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.
  • Communication and Media Studies.
  • Computer Programming.
  • Computer Science.
  • Computer Software and Media Applications.
  • Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications.
  • Computer and Information Sciences, General.
  • Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections.
  • Dance.
  • Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft.
  • East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Economics.
  • Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
  • Engineering Technologies/Technicians, General.
  • Engineering, General.
  • Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies.
  • Fine and Studio Arts.
  • Food Science and Technology.
  • Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.
  • Geography and Cartography.
  • Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.
  • History.
  • Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services.
  • Human Resources Management and Services.
  • Journalism.
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.
  • Literature.
  • Mathematics.
  • Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions.
  • Music.
  • Non-Professional Legal Studies.
  • Philosophy.
  • Physical Sciences, General.
  • Physics.
  • Political Science and Government.
  • Psychology, General.
  • Public Health.
  • Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.
  • Religion/Religious Studies.
  • Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.
  • Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
  • Security Science and Technology.
  • Social Work.
  • Sociology.
  • Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.
  • Sustainability Studies.
  • Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.
  • Visual and Performing Arts, General.

How it compares

Across the 346 NJCAA women’s basketball programmes in this database, the average listed squad is 13 players. South Mountain Community College lists 10, 3 players below that average. Among the 13 NJCAA programmes in Arizona, it has the 12th 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 size102025-26ope.ed.govEADA 2025-26 schools.xlsx, PARTIC_WOMEN for Basketball12 Aug 202696%
recruitingBand8-282025-26ope.ed.govInferred from EADA operating expense per women's basketball participant ($2,054/player), ranked on a log scale against all 1857 programmes (percentile 18). Division is not used as an input.12 Aug 202655%
Degrees62 undergraduate degrees listed, including Food Science and Technology., Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies., Communication and Media 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. Check it at the source.