Yale University Sports

Yale University is an Ivy League university with an undergraduate enrollment of 6,536 students, plays a total of 32 NCAA sports, 15 of them for men and 17 of them for women. In the 2021/2022 season, Yale University had a total of 917 NCAA athletes comprising 14% of the total student body.

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

All data compiled from Yale University athletic website.

Yale University
Division 1
	Men's	Men's	Women's	Women's	Total
	Sports	Team Size	Sports	Team Size	Team Size
1	Baseball	31	-	-	31
2	Basketball	19	Basketball	14	33
3	Cross Country	26	Cross Country	25	51
4	Fencing	18	Fencing	14	32
5	-	-	Field Hockey	19	19
6	Football	121	-	-	121
7	Golf	8	Golf	9	17
8	-	-	Gymnastics	17	17
9	Ice Hockey	24	Ice Hockey	29	53
10	Lacrosse	51	Lacrosse	39	90
11	Rowing	57	Rowing	49	106
12	Sailing	13	Sailing	20	33
13	Soccer	28	Soccer	31	59
14	-	-	Softball	17	17
15	Squash	18	Squash	14	32
16	Swimming and Diving	35	Swimming and Diving	31	66
17	Tennis	8	Tennis	9	17
18	Track and Field	52	Track and Field	52	104
19			Volleyball	19	19
Total Sports Played	15		17		32
Total Athletes		509		408	917

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