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 545,844 438,933 1,108,441 471,025 36,912 398,351
High School Senior Student Athletes 155,955 125,409 316,697 134,579 10,546 113,815
NCAA Student Athletes 17,500 15,708 67,887 31,264 3,944 22,573
NCAA Freshman Roster Positions 5,000 4,488 19,396 8,933 1,127 6,449
NCAA Senior Student Athletes 3,889 3,491 15,086 6,948 876 5,016
NCAA Student Athletes Drafted 48 32 255 806 11 49
Percent High School to NCAA 3.2% 3.6% 6.1% 6.6% 10.7% 5.7%
Percent NCAA to Professional 1.2% 0.9% 1.7% 11.6% 1.3% 1.0%
Percent High School to Professional 0.03% 0.03% 0.08% 0.60% 0.10% 0.04%

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

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