Collegiate Consulting Completes New Sport Feasibility Study for William Carey University
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (Oct. 2, 2024) – Collegiate Consulting completed a comprehensive Feasibility Study to study football and new women’s sports for William Carey University. The report detailed start-up costs, travel, facilities, student-athlete financial aid, operating budgets, coaching and administrative staffing and salaries as well as a timeline for implementing new sports.
The 81-page study included women’s lacrosse and women’s flag football as the potential new women’s sports. Collegiate Consulting examined the opportunity to add these three sports and compete in two divisions: Division II and NAIA with benchmarking for the Gulf South Conference (football and women’s lacrosse), the Appalachian Athletic Conference (football) and the Sun Conference (flag football).
The Crusaders sponsor 18 intercollegiate varsity sports in the NAIA, primarily competing in the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC). Recent national championships include women’s soccer (2018) and men’s indoor track and field (2020). Last spring, the WCU men’s baseball team made its third appearance in the NAIA World Series (2017, 2023 and 2024).
With its earliest origins in 1892, William Carey is a private Christian institution in Mississippi. In 2006, William Carey University celebrated its centennial and marked the transition of William Carey College to William Carey University.
Collegiate Consulting is a comprehensive solutions-based intercollegiate consulting firm founded in 2005 and based in Atlanta. In the past 36 months, Collegiate Consulting has completed football feasibility studies for Chicago State University, University of New Orleans and the University of Alabama in Huntsville.