Dartmouth College Sports

Dartmouth College is an Ivy League university with an undergraduate enrollment of 4,556 students, plays a total of 35 NCAA sports, 16 of them for men and 19 of them for women. In the 2021/2022 season, Dartmouth College had a total of 907 NCAA athletes comprising 20% of the total student body.

Dartmouth 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 Dartmouth College 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 Dartmouth College and the number of athletes in each sports team.

All data compiled from Dartmouth College athletic website.

Dartmouth University
Division 1
	Men's	Men's	Women's	Women's	Total
	Sports	Team Size	Sports	Team Size	Team Size
1	Alpine Skiing	11	Alpine Skiing	9	20
2	Baseball	32	-	-	32
3	Basketball	20	Basketball	15	35
4	Cross Country	25	Cross Country	25	50
5	-	-	Equestrian	17	17
6	-	-	Field Hockey	21	21
7	Football	125	-	-	125
8	Golf	10	Golf	7	17
9	Ice Hockey	28	Ice Hockey	21	49
10	Lacrosse	43	Lacrosse	32	75
11	Nordic Skiing	10	Nordic Skiing	13	23
12	Rowing	57	Rowing	46	103
13	-	-	Rugby	19	19
14	Sailing	12	Sailing	21	33
15	Soccer	31	Soccer	28	59
16	-	-	Softball	17	17
17	Squash	19	Squash	13	32
18	Swimming and Diving	19	Swimming and Diving	19	38
19	Tennis	10	Tennis	10	20
20	Track and Field	50	Track and Field	53	103
21			Volleyball	19	19
Total Sports Played	16		19		35
Total Athletes		502		405	907

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