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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always wonder what % of these kids are actually getting sports scholarships? Are all these swimmers, x country, field hockey, women's hockey, volleyball players going to college for 100% free (tuition & room and board)? [/quote]

I rowed in college at a HUGE football school.  We had two eights and a four, 3 coxswains, 2 alternates, and 20 athletic scholarships.  Everyone but the coxswains had full scholarships.  2 girls on my team had academic scholarships rather than athletic.  Academic scholarships were better because a) they can give you more than the value of room and board, and b) they give you actual cash.  I found the previous article about the actual value of an athletic scholarship kind of interesting.  For the first two years, girls on scholarship had to live in a specific dorm, be on the meal plan, and got used, borrowed books from a back room near where we got our uniforms. 
Girls who didn’t make the team for whatever reason lost their scholarship for the next year.  [/quote]

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