Athletic scholarships for W in some unusual sports

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The other thing to remember with some of those sports is that not everyone on the team is getting a full scholarship or a scholarship at all. On a basketball team, every athlete, except maybe that one walk-on, is getting a full ride. On a rowing team, very few people are usually getting a full ride scholarship, some recruits start out with a few thousand, and some start out with nothing (both of those may be getting more money by their senior year than they were their freshman year).

It depends on the college. NCAA Div I permits 20 full ride scholarships for rowing (can be split up as partial scholarships to more than 20), which is more than basketball or any other women’s sport I am aware of. Some colleges do give the maximum allowed scholarships. For example, Ohio State has 16 full rides and splits the remaining 4 across multiple students. An old NYT article mentioned that women’s crew is the only sport where the total number of scholarships is a large percentage of the number of HS students participating, implying the chance of a large scholarship for a rower is much greater than in basketball. For example, women’s basketball had a ~1% scholarship/participation ratio with an average value of 80% full scholarship, while crew had a 41% scholarship/participation ratio with an average value of 42% full scholarship.</p>