University of Notre Dame Sports

The University of Notre Dame, a private Catholic research university with an undergraduate enrollment of 8,973 students, plays a total of 24 NCAA sports, 12 of them for men and 12 for women. In the 2021/2022 season, the University of Notre Dame had a total of 804 NCAA athletes comprising 9% of the total student body.

Notre Dame is highly 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 50% to 75% of their teams comprise of recruited athletes while the remaining athletes are “walk-on” athletes who were admitted to Notre Dame on merits unrelated to sports.

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Here’s the list of sports played at the University of Notre Dame by gender together with their team sizes.

All data compiled from University of Notre Dame athletic website.

University of Notre Dame
Division 1
	Men's	Men's	Women's	Women's	Total
	Sports	Team Size	Sports	Team Size	Team Size
1	Baseball	41	-	-	41
2	Basketball	14	Basketball	11	25
3	Cross Country	20	Cross Country	27	47
4	Fencing	57	Fencing	57	114
5	Football	99	-	-	99
6	Golf	9	Golf	8	17
7	Ice Hockey	28	-	-	28
8	Lacrosse	58	Lacrosse	35	93
9	-	-	Rowing	61	61
10	Soccer	29	Soccer	33	62
11	-	-	Softball	23	23
12	Swimming and Diving	30	Swimming and Diving	39	69
13	Tennis	13	Tennis	10	23
14	Track and Field	46	Track and Field	49	95
15			Volleyball	7	7
Total Sports Played	12		12		24
Total Athletes		444		360	804

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