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Field Hockey at the Top Colleges

Women’s field hockey is an NCAA college sport played by 41 of the 61 highly selective colleges with a total of 973 athletes participating in the sport. Field hockey players at these 41 highly selective colleges represent 6% of all female NCAA athletes from the 61 highly selective colleges.

From the 41 highly selective colleges that play field hockey, 540 of the field hockey athletes play at 24 of the highly selective colleges in Division 1, while the remaining 433 field hockey athletes play at the 17 highly selective colleges in Division 3.

Field Hockey NCAA Rules and Calendar for Athlete Recruitment

How do top colleges in Division 1 select their athlete recruits?

Athlete Recruitment to a Top NCAA Division 3 College

List of Highly Selective Colleges with Field Hockey Teams

Below is a list of the top colleges that play field hockey and the NCAA Division they belong in.

All data is compiled directly from the colleges’ athletic websites

Women's Field Hockey at Highly Selective Colleges
Division
Amherst CollegeIII
Babson CollegeIII
Barnard College (comb w/ Columbia University)I
Bates CollegeIII
Boston CollegeI
Boston UniversityI
Bowdoin CollegeIII
Brown UniversityI
Colby College III
Colgate University I
Columbia University (incl Barnard College)I
Cornell UniversityI
Dartmouth CollegeI
Davidson CollegeI
Duke UniversityI
Georgetown University I
Hamilton CollegeIII
Harvard UniversityI
Haverford CollegeIII
John Hopkins University III
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyIII
Middleburry CollegeIII
Northeastern UniversityI
Northwestern University I
Princeton University I
Stanford University I
Swarthmore College III
Tufts University III
University of California BerkeleyI
University of Michigan I
University of North Carolina - Chapel HillI
University of Pennsylvania I
University of Virginia I
Vassar College III
Villanova UniversityI
Wake Forest UniversityI
Washington and Lee University III
Wellesley College III
Wesleyan UniversityIII
Williams CollegeIII
Yale University I
Total Players973

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