CoSIDA Sets Membership Record...Again!
For the fourth consecutive year the College Sports Information Directors of America have reached a record membership level at 2,563. The CoSIDA numbers for 2008-09 show an increase of 166 members from a previous record membership of 2,397 in 2007-08. The figures also mark the fourth straight year that CoSIDA's membership has topped the 2,000 mark.
Membership figures increased in 38 states, led by led by Texas (+22), Oklahoma (+19) and Ohio (+17). A total of seven states have over 100 CoSIDA members (New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, California, Ohio, North Carolina and Illinois)
The membership totals in CoSIDA's eight districts remained consistent, with five of the eight districts having over 300 members and the average membership per district at 318. The lowest membership in a district is 250 in District VII and the highest is 416 in District III.
Of CoSIDA's 2,563 members in 2008-09, 2,068 are from NCAA institutions.
There are 1,037 institutions that have at least one CoSIDA member and 441 of those schools have more than one member.
The figures showed that there is still plenty of room for growth in the organization's membership ranks, however. There are 169 NCAA Institutions that do not have at least one CoSIDA member and 189 NAIA Institutions that do not have at least one CoSIDA member.