The number of college teams for female athletes appears to have peaked in 2002, but women are getting a few more administrative posts and coaching jobs in college sports, according to the latest update of a 27-year-old survey.

The survey, "Women in Intercollegiate Sport," is conducted yearly by R. Vivian Acosta and Linda Jean Carpenter, professors emeriti at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. The update found that members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association have, on average, 8.32 women's teams in 2004, down very slightly from 2002.

Past updates have shown that the number of female coaches and administrators plummeted in the early 1980s, after the NCAA took over women's sports from the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. In the 1970s, more than 90 percent of the coaches for women's teams were women themselves, and administrators of women's athletics programs were almost all female. By 1987, however, fewer than half of women's teams had female coaches and fewer than 20 percent of women's programs had female athletics directors.

The 2004 figures show a slight uptick for women in coaching and administrative positions. Women have received nearly half of the new coaching positions created since 2002, according to Professors Acosta and Carpenter. Women now hold 57 percent of paid jobs as assistant coaches for women's teams, and the number of female athletics directors is up by 11, to 187, over the past two years.