Recruiting Statistics

Athletic Recruits
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<p>There have been several different threads with links to recruiting stats, I have searched this forum and cannot find the info I am looking for. I had several articles saved to my computer which I had to replace due to a hard drive failure and I cannot find these articles I had saved. Does anyone have any links to relatively current articles on stats of high school participation vs. college recruiting? Thank you!</p>

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<p>[Odds</a> of playing a college sport from high school](<a href=“http://www.scholarshipstats.com/varsityodds.html]Odds”>Odds of a High School Athlete making a College Team | Scholarship Stats.com)</p>

<p>Look at Rowing… holy cow</p>

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<p>The numbers for rowing seem very suspect. At the US Rowing Junior National regatta there were approximately 800 girls there (a few athletes did 2 races, but most did not). At the Northwest Regional regatta (qualifying regatta for Nationals) alone, there were 1300+ girls (again, some doubled, but not all). Add in the Southwest, Central, Northeast, Midatlantic, Southeast, and smaller qualifying regattas such as Philly City Championships and you get a number that greatly exceeds 2000. </p>

<p>These regional regattas are predominantly club programs as scholastic teams have a scholastic championship. So you’d have to add in even more scholastic rowers. </p>

<p>Sorry I can’t find any specific articles, but just thought I’d throw this out there.</p>

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<p>^The article mentions that it only includes athletes competing for high schools and does not include athletes who only compete for clubs.</p>

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<p>^^^ well that clears things up a bit. From the size of Nationals, there are at least double if not triple the number of scholastic rowers in the club teams. Especially on the West Coast, club teams are far more common. In Central Ohio where I am, we have one HS team and three club teams. So I’m sure those numbers are seriously wrong if they rely only on scholastic teams. EDIT: if you look at their footnote, they describe that with rowing specifically as the example.</p>

<p>That said, the large number of college teams. especially DI, and relatively smaller number of club or HS teams does improve the odds for doing the sport in college. That does not mean substantial (or even any) scholarship money. That is much harder to get/earn.</p>

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<p>In W Foil fencing the top eight girls out of maybe 15 competitive where recruited out of a universe of maybe 85-100 who participated in USFA. If they didn’t attend NCAA or join clubs about half of the total will quit altogether.</p>

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<p>I don’t think the rowing stats are all that suspect. Rowing outside of the east coast is practically non-existent as a high school sport. Many college students start rowing once they get to college, probably having been athletes in other sports in high school. Most rowing teams for colleges outside of the east coast are club sports as well.</p>

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<p>PS - I thought the link was fascinating.</p>

<p>I’ve always thrown around the 1 in 10 stat for high school athletes who will play in college … which is pretty close to true in total … but the variation by sport and gender was much larger than I expected.</p>

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<p>Fishy: Are you looking for info re specific sport? only links or anecdotal info?</p>

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<p>Hi Lioness4, I was looking for athletic recruiting in general. There were several links posted here over the past couple of years that I had bookmarked and have now lost, was hoping someone had them saved. Thanks!</p>

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<p>I had posted this link in another thread of a link I had come across - again with the crazy numbers for rowers <a href=“https://www.ecollegefinder.org/images/infographics/sportsinfographic_full_final.jpg[/url]”>https://www.ecollegefinder.org/images/infographics/sportsinfographic_full_final.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I agree that the girls crew numbers are probably just high school and don’t include the clubs</p>

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<p>Counting only those athletes who play high school is very misleading. In my daughter’s sport the vast majority of elite girls do not play for their high school. Their numbers would not show up in the “high school girls” column but would dominate in the “college women” column.</p>

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<p>… which are completely misleading and don’t include Div. II or Div. III.</p>

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<p>I’ve come to the conclusion that most sports are unique with different feeder systems, and reporting numbers…there always seems to be exceptions. Women’s soccer will be different than men’s baseball which is different than mens or womens fencing. When you layer the different NCAA divisions on top of this confusion you have more confusion. I think I’m going to stick to what I know rather than figure out other sports. There aren’t enough hours in the day. I know the baseball numbers and that is all I need to know. I’ll leave the other sports to the people that know them. ;-)</p>

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<p>The vast majority of recruited fencers attend high schools that don’t offer fencing.</p>