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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Baseball has 500,000.
Soccer has 850,000.
Basketball has 900,000.
Football has 1,000,000.
Track has over 1,200,000.
Even golf has 250,000.

According to the NFHS, squash has a couple of thousand.

Squash and sailing is the last bastion of elite, white privilege at Ivies.  Where mediocre skill meets money.  There is nothing wrong with gaming the system as long as you play by the rules but don't pretend it is anything but a backdoor way to preserve what the university community despises.[/quote]

You don't need to be a zillionaire to learn to play squash, but it's not going to be easy to do if you're lower income.   Maybe you can even learn the basics of sailing or rowing or horseback riding or golf etc.    But learning to play and get into the level where you can get recruited to the ivy League or two different things.   That is going to require some financial investment and if you make that investment in squash, you are going to have to compete against a significantly much smaller pool of athletes than if you're trying to get recruited to the track team.  Even accounting for the smaller size of the squash team relative to the track team.[/quote]

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