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I can attest that Lacrosse is taking kids away from Baseball in my area.
I second that on Lacrosse in SoCal...it is growing very fast. Football on the other hand...I'm shocked it is only down 1.2%. Our high school has over 2K students and is now down to just two football teams--varsity and everyone else. I think it is down 20% or more over the past 5 years at many schools like ours.
I think it is very area dependent. In my area baseball, soccer, and hockey are growing while football and track declining. A lot has to do with facilities. My city (11K people) has a good indoor hockey facility and just built an indoor baseball facility to allow more practices. Not only does it help the HS baseball team but the little league kids use it in the offseason.
Hard to attribute any significance to those numbers without knowing how much enrollment has increased, or declined.
So the top three boys sports in terms of adding participants were soccer (28,000), track (15,000), and baseball (14,000)
Lacrosse added the sixth most, after basketball and cross country.
MTH posted:Hard to attribute any significance to those numbers without knowing how much enrollment has increased, or declined.
According to this data, grades 9-12, public + private, enrollment has increased about 1.5%. (2015-16 is projected.)
Wow....okay so female "Rowing" is down 58%....and yet it's offered at D1 schools as a Varsity sport with 20 scholarships available....excuse me I have to go check my daughter out of school and figure out where the heck to go rowing.
CaCO3Girl posted:Wow....okay so female "Rowing" is down 58%....and yet it's offered at D1 schools as a Varsity sport with 20 scholarships available....excuse me I have to go check my daughter out of school and figure out where the heck to go rowing.
No joke. My buddy's daughter was offered a full ride for rowing at an east coast school after she was spotted swimming at the intramural pool. Had never rowed before. Going to the pool that day was worth $200,000.
CaCO3Girl posted:Wow....okay so female "Rowing" is down 58%....and yet it's offered at D1 schools as a Varsity sport with 20 scholarships available....excuse me I have to go check my daughter out of school and figure out where the heck to go rowing.
I believe it was after a mother told me she didn't realize how easy it was to play a college sport that I nearly committed my first homicide.
Women's rowing is the only place I've heard of this occurring. And it doesn't happen at many colleges. I assure you in Boston and Philadelphia anyone rowing on a scholarship is recruited. Head of the Charles and Dad Vail are the largest rowing regattas in the country. They're also huge parties that are a lot of fun.
If anyone thinks rowing is easy try to get into a single shell without help.
A very informative and interesting site which will compliment the sport growth/attrition numbers in the OP
http://www.scholarshipstats.com/
Gives scholarship numbers across all sports and all levels (NCAA D1 to NJCAA and everything in between).
For example, in the OP you see an increase of over 33% in women's rifle, yet at NCAA D1 it is an equivalency sport with average women's team size of 7 and average men's team size of 8. Teams can be coed or separate men's/women's teams and have 3.6 total scholarships available to be shared in any proportion. So if a school carries both gender in the sport, the 3.6 scholarships are shared across both teams. If the team is coed, 3.6 shared across team. If the school only has a women's rifle team, 3.6 for the team.
Average D1 Men's Lacrosse team has 45 players and equivalency of 12.6 scholarships available.
RJM posted:CaCO3Girl posted:Wow....okay so female "Rowing" is down 58%....and yet it's offered at D1 schools as a Varsity sport with 20 scholarships available....excuse me I have to go check my daughter out of school and figure out where the heck to go rowing.
I believe it was after a mother told me she didn't realize how easy it was to play a college sport that I nearly committed my first homicide.
Women's rowing is the only place I've heard of this occurring. And it doesn't happen at many colleges. I assure you in Boston and Philadelphia anyone rowing on a scholarship is recruited. Head of the Charles and Dad Vail are the largest rowing regattas in the country. They're also huge parties that are a lot of fun.
If anyone thinks rowing is easy try to get into a single shell without help.
Yeah physically rowing is super tough at high levels. The last minute of a race you are dying because the lactate is so high. It is basically start fast and then slowing down as little as possible for 6 to 7 minutes or so. Not a fun thing.
Dominik85 posted:RJM posted:CaCO3Girl posted:Wow....okay so female "Rowing" is down 58%....and yet it's offered at D1 schools as a Varsity sport with 20 scholarships available....excuse me I have to go check my daughter out of school and figure out where the heck to go rowing.
I believe it was after a mother told me she didn't realize how easy it was to play a college sport that I nearly committed my first homicide.
Women's rowing is the only place I've heard of this occurring. And it doesn't happen at many colleges. I assure you in Boston and Philadelphia anyone rowing on a scholarship is recruited. Head of the Charles and Dad Vail are the largest rowing regattas in the country. They're also huge parties that are a lot of fun.
If anyone thinks rowing is easy try to get into a single shell without help.
Yeah physically rowing is super tough at high levels. The last minute of a race you are dying because the lactate is so high. It is basically start fast and then slowing down as little as possible for 6 to 7 minutes or so. Not a fun thing.
It actually sounds like a fun thing. My daughter is going to be very tall. I lucked out with her brother, at 6 he picked up a baseball and never looked back. It's harder finding her a sport and it's important to me that she play one, but there is time.
CaCO3Girl posted:Dominik85 posted:RJM posted:CaCO3Girl posted:Wow....okay so female "Rowing" is down 58%....and yet it's offered at D1 schools as a Varsity sport with 20 scholarships available....excuse me I have to go check my daughter out of school and figure out where the heck to go rowing.
I believe it was after a mother told me she didn't realize how easy it was to play a college sport that I nearly committed my first homicide.
Women's rowing is the only place I've heard of this occurring. And it doesn't happen at many colleges. I assure you in Boston and Philadelphia anyone rowing on a scholarship is recruited. Head of the Charles and Dad Vail are the largest rowing regattas in the country. They're also huge parties that are a lot of fun.
If anyone thinks rowing is easy try to get into a single shell without help.
Yeah physically rowing is super tough at high levels. The last minute of a race you are dying because the lactate is so high. It is basically start fast and then slowing down as little as possible for 6 to 7 minutes or so. Not a fun thing.
It actually sounds like a fun thing. My daughter is going to be very tall. I lucked out with her brother, at 6 he picked up a baseball and never looked back. It's harder finding her a sport and it's important to me that she play one, but there is time.
She played softball, basketball and volleyball in high school. She played softball in college. Picture a 5'10" guard in girls high school basketball.
CaCO3Girl posted:Wow....okay so female "Rowing" is down 58%....and yet it's offered at D1 schools as a Varsity sport with 20 scholarships available....excuse me I have to go check my daughter out of school and figure out where the heck to go rowing.
Here's a club that practices at an Olympic venue that still hosts world-class events... http://www.lakelanierrowing.org/