Women are Now 39% of NCAA Athletes

I have read so many different articles and they all seem to have different statistics but are usually pretty close. Like this one, it says that 39% of all college athletes are female, well in the last article I read it was 54%. So i guess give or take a few, but the point is that the numbers of females in college athletics are increasing. The numbers have increased 16% over the last decade. The total number of female athletes grew from 88,698 in 1985-86 to 103,252 in 1996-97, while males dropped from 185,040 to 163,636. I thought this was interesting, while female athletics increases, males decreased...hmmm i wonder why. Males think this is because females are given a lot more opportunities and it is decreasing the male numbers. I also thought this stat was interesting since i play soccer. Women's soccer was the fastest growing sport on campus over the last decade, up 154% from 4,510 players in 1985-86 to 11,467 in 1996-97. That's more women playing college soccer than men playing college basketball, which dropped from 12,604 to 11,253 over the same period. The women's US national team won a world cup 8 years ago and this year made it to the finals. Women are doing outstanding in sports and they are slowly gaining equality and recognition. According to this article men make up more of the athletic population, but women are becoming a force.

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