7.8% PLAY COLLEGE

Article states...
College softball: best days
ahead for school programs

Here are a few lines pulled from Bill Plummer III's article titled “COLLEGE SOFTBALL POPULARITY INCREASING” at the College Sports Madness website.

“Division III has the most number of schools/colleges sponsoring a women's (softball) program with 399 and 7,047 total participants and an average team size of 18.

Last season, Wesley Wolverine sophomore #21 C/3B  
Whitney Dibb (La Mesa, CA) takes a practice swing as 
she prepares to bat; junior #6 MI Breanna Hartman 
(Red Bank, NJ) slides home during a game 
at Reynolds DuPont softball field.

“… Collectively, 1,656 schools/colleges offer varsity softball with 30,175 participants. At the high school level there are 381,116 players in the United States, meaning 7.8 percent of all high school players go on to play college softball...

“ The best thing is thousands of athletes are playing softball and that overall number will only grow in the future as more schools and colleges add a softball program. The best is yet to come for college softball.”

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