University of Virginia Sports

The University of Virginia, a public research university with an undergraduate enrollment of 17,299 students, plays a total of 25 NCAA sports, 12 of them for men and 13 of them for women. In the 2021/2022 season, the University of Virginia had a total of 839 NCAA athletes comprising 5% of the total student body.

Virginia 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 Virginia 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 the University of Virginia and the number of athletes in each sports team.

All data compiled from University of Virginia athletic website.

University of Virginia
Division 1
	Men's	Men's	Women's	Women's	Total
	Sports	Team Size	Sports	Team Size	Team Size
1	Baseball	36	-	-	36
2	Basketball	13	Basketball	11	24
3	Cross Country	57	Cross Country	50	107
4	-	-	Field Hockey	29	29
5	Football	105	-	-	105
6	Golf	12	Golf	10	22
7	Lacrosse	44	Lacrosse	28	72
8	-	-	Rowing	63	63
9	Soccer	27	Soccer	26	53
10	-	-	Softball	29	29
11	Squash	13	Squash	15	28
12	Swimming and Diving	57	Swimming and Diving	30	87
13	Tennis	10	Tennis	9	19
14	Track and Field	57	Track and Field	50	107
15	-	-	Volleyball	14	14
16	Wrestling	44			44
Total Sports Played	12		13		25
Total Athletes		475		364	839

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