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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://gocrimson.com/sports/womens-lacrosse/roster

Wow, looks like a real cross section of America. [/quote]

Lots of diversity, some are blonde and some are brunette.[/quote]

:roll:  :roll:  :roll:

It can't be helped that lax skews white just like basketball and football skew black. [/quote]

There is a big difference though in the raw numbers.  You take any Div 1 school (including Ivy) and the basketball team is maybe 75% black (less at Princeton and Duke) and the Football team is 60-70% black.  Outside of these two sports, you will not see any significant number of blacks on any other teams at any given university.  Harvard has like 40 varsity teams!!  The vast majority of the roster of these teams are white (70%+).  My issue is the fact that most of these other sports don't afford an opportunity for blacks and Latinos (Asians to a lesser extent) to participate because of lack of access or opportunity.  There are no swimming teams or water polo teams in black and brown public schools, etc.  Let's acknowledge how this disadvantages these students because there is absolutely no possibility of them taking advantage of the biggest admission boost to these schools when it comes to slots. [/quote]

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