University of Chicago Sports

The University of Chicago (UChicago) is a private research university with an undergraduate enrollment of 7,559 students, plays a total of 18 NCAA sports, 9 of them for men and 9 for women. In the 2021/2022 season, the University of Chicago had a total of 615 NCAA athletes comprising 8% of the total student body.

UChicago 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 UChicago 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 UChicago and the number of athletes in each sports team.

All data compiled from University of Chicago athletic website.

University of Chicago
Division 3
	Men's	Men's	Women's	Women's	Total
	Sports	Team Size	Sports	Team Size	Team Size
1	Baseball	37	-	-	37
2	Basketball	16	Basketball	16	32
3	Country	35	Country	31	66
4	Football	103	-	-	103
5	-	-	Lacrosse	31	31
6	Soccer	29	Soccer	31	60
7	-	-	Softball	20	20
8	Swimming and Diving	39	Swimming and Diving	39	78
9	Tennis	17	Tennis	17	34
10	Track and Field	56	Track and Field	50	106
11	-	-	Volleyball	18	18
12	Wrestling	30			30
Total Sports Played	9		9		18
Total Athletes		362		253	615

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