Athletic Scholarships

Kyle's upcoming high school water polo coach just sent out an interesting NY Times article, re: College Scholarships, from which there are a couple of different charts (one on average scholarship amounts, the other on the number of scholies offered).

Some conclusions:

• nearly 14K U.S. boys play Water Polo in HS, nearly 12K girls
• only 83 college scholarships are awarded for boys (though it's split up among 282 students; only 30% receive full scholies), 145 scholarships awarded to girls (split among 445 students; 34% receive full scholies)
• average yearly scholarship value for boys is $7756, girls $7793
• of the 21 NCAA sports, Water Polo ranks 11th in average yearly scholarship value for boys, 15th for girls
  

From these numbers... roughly 2% of h.s. boys will earn (some form of) college scholarships in water polo, 3.7% of girls

very interesting stuff...

Kyle REALLY needs to start playing Ice Hockey (4.25% of boys will receive scholies; 80% of which are full scholies; with a average yearly value of $21,755)...