Brown University Sports

Brown University, an Ivy League university with an undergraduate enrollment of 6,792 students, plays a total of 32 NCAA sports, 14 of them for men and 18 of them for women. In the 2021/2022 season, Brown University had a total of 992 NCAA athletes comprising 15% of the total student body.

Brown is likely to have recruited many of the athletes on its NCAA sports teams through the Division 1 athlete recruitment process, enabling these recruited athletes to leapfrog the normal admissions process. It is our best estimate based on team profiles that about 50% to 75% of their teams comprise of recruited athletes while the remaining athletes are “walk-on” athletes who were admitted to Brown on merits unrelated to sports.

How Top Colleges in Division 1 Select their Athlete Recruits

The table below lists the NCAA and varsity sports played at Brown University and the number of athletes in each sports team.

All data compiled from Brown University athletic website.

Brown University
Division 1
	Men's	Men's	Women's	Women's	Total
	Sports	Team Size	Sports	Team Size	Team Size
1	Baseball	26	-	-	26
2	Basketball	18	Basketball	16	34
3	Cross Country	18	Cross Country	24	42
4	-	-	Equestrian	23	23
5	-	-	Fencing	11	11
6	-	-	Field Hockey	21	21
7	Football	109	-	-	109
8	-	-	Gymnastics	23	23
9	Ice Hockey	30	Ice Hockey	24	54
10	Lacrosse	55	Lacrosse	41	96
11	Rowing	51	Rowing	41	92
12	-	-	Rugby	27	27
13	Sailing	32	Sailing	23	55
14	Soccer	32	Soccer	35	67
15	-	-	Softball	23	23
16	Swimming and Diving	34	Swimming and Diving	32	66
17	Tennis	11	Tennis	13	24
18	Track and Field	47	Track and Field	65	112
19	-	-	Volleyball	17	17
20	Water Polo	19	Water Polo	25	44
21	Wrestling	26			26
Total Sports Played	14		18		32
Total Athletes		508		484	992

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