Wake Forest University Sports

Wake Forest University is a private research university with an undergraduate enrollment of 5,472 students, plays a total of 16 NCAA sports, 8 of them for men and 8 of them for women. In the 2021/2022 season, Wake Forest University had a total of 423 NCAA athletes comprising 8% of the total student body.

Wake Forest 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 Wake Forest 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 Wake Forest University and the number of athletes in each sports team.

All data compiled from Wake Forest University athletic website.

Wake Forest University
Division 1
	Men's	Men's	Women's	Women's	Total
	Sports	Team Size	Sports	Team Size	Team Size
1	Baseball	39	-	-	39
2	Basketball	15	Basketball	14	29
3	Country	21	Country	22	43
4	-	-	Field Hockey	26	26
5	Football	114	-	-	114
6	Golf	11	Golf	10	21
7	Soccer	27	Soccer	27	54
8	Tennis	17	Tennis	10	27
9	Track and Field	25	Track and Field	35	60
10			Volleyball	10	10
Total Sports Played	8		8		16
Total Athletes		269		154	423

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