NCAA and Varsity Sports Played by Less Than 10 Top Colleges

A total of 6 men’s NCAA sports and a total of 8 women’s NCAA and varsity sports are each played by less than 10 of the highly selective colleges. These sports include alpine skiing, nordic skiing, archery, beach volleyball, bowling, equestrian, gymnastics, indoor track, rifle and rugby.

Collectively, these sports at the highly selective colleges are represented by a total of 1,190 athletes, 767 of whom are women athletes and 423 of whom are men.

Each of these sports provide athlete recruitment opportunities at the highly selective colleges that play them even though the choices of college for those athlete recruits are limited. Each of the college’s athlete recruitment practices in these sports will depend on whether the college is in NCAA Division 1 or NCAA Division 3. The NCAA athlete recruitment rules and calendar will apply to these sports as well and aspiring athlete recruits must become familiar with these rules.

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Table of NCAA and varsity sports played by fewer than 10 highly selective colleges

NCAA and Varsity Sports Played by Fewer than 10 Highly Selective Colleges
ALPINE AND NORDIC SKIING	Division	Alpine Men	Nordic Men	Alpine Women	Nordic Women	Total/College
Babson College	III	11	0	9	0	20
Bates College	III	11	9	8	16	44
Boston College	I	13	-	9	-	22
Colby College	III	14	25	11	25	75
Dartmouth College	I	11	10	9	13	43
Harvard University	I	7	12	7	12	38
Middlebury College	I	19	14	19	14	66
Williams College	III	19	17	19	17	72
Total		105	87	91	97	380
ARCHERY	Division			Women		Total/College
Barnard College/Columbia University	I			14		14
BEACH VOLLEYBALL	Division			Women		Total/College
Stanford University	I			18		18
Tulane University	I			15		15
University of California Berkeley	I			17		17
University of California Los Angeles	I			20		20
University of Southern California	I			24		24
Total				94		94
BOWLING	Division			Women		Total/College
Tulane University	I			8		8
Vanderbilt University	I			11		11
Total				19		19
EQUESTRIAN	Division			Women		Total/College
Brown University	I			23		23
Cornell University	I			27		27
Dartmouth College	I			17		17
Washington and Lee University	III			19		19
Total				86		86
GYMNASTICS	Division	Men		Women		Total/College
Brown University	I	-		23		23
Cornell University	I	-		25		25
Stanford University	I	23		11		34
University of California Berkeley	I	20		20		40
University of California Los Angeles	I	-		21		21
University of Michigan	I	24		13		37
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill	I	-		21		21
University of Pennsylvania	I	-		25		25
Yale University	I			17		17
Total		67		176		243
INDOOR TRACK	Division	Men		Women		Total/College
Haverford College	III	52		28		80
RIFLE	Division	Men		Women		Total/College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	III	20		9		29
RUGBY	Division	Men		Women		Total/College
Bowdoin College	III	-		32		32
Brown University	I	-		27		27
Dartmouth College	I	-		19		19
Harvard University	I	-		36		36
University of California Berkeley	I	58		-		58
Vassar College	III	34		39		73
Total		92		153		245
		423		767		1190

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