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Estimated Probability of Competing in Athletics Beyond the High School Interscholastic Level

Student-Athletes Men's Basketball Women's Basketball Football Baseball Men's Ice Hockey Men's Soccer
High School Student Athletes 545,145 444,809 1,112,303 473,184 37,255 383,824
High School Senior Student Athletes 155,756 127,088 317,801 135,195 10,644 109,664
NCAA Student Athletes 16,911 15,381 64,879 29,816 4,101 21,601
NCAA Freshman Roster Positions 4,832 4,395 18,537 8,519 1,172 6,172
NCAA Senior Student Athletes 3,758 3,418 14,418 6,626 911 4,800
NCAA Student Athletes Drafted 44 32 250 600 33 76
Percent High School to NCAA 3.1% 3.5% 5.8% 6.3% 11.0% 5.6%
Percent NCAA to Professional 1.2% 0.9% 1.7% 9.1% 3.6% 1.6%
Percent High School to Professional 0.03% 0.03% 0.08% 0.44% 0.31% 0.07%

Note: These percentages are based on estimated data and should be considered approximations of the actual percentages.

Click here to view the methodology used to arrive at these estimates.


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