<p>This is for a research project:</p>
<p>Is anyone aware of a college or university that recruits athletes for an unusual sport? Any examples would be most appreciated!!</p>
<p>Define unusual sport.</p>
<p>BYU, Cal, Arkansas State, Arizona State, Penn State, Colorado - Mens’ Rugby</p>
<p>Trinity - Squash</p>
<p>Fencing, sailing, skiing, squash are recruited at many of the Ivy League schools.</p>
<p>These examples that people are giving work for me! Thanks. I was thinking of “unusual” sports as those that don’t typically come to mind when one thinks of athletic recruiting.</p>
<p>You’ve come to the right place, Susanna.</p>
<p>While there are a few baseball folks here, and the occasional football and basketball question comes up, most of the discussion on this board surrounds the less conventional sports. There are a lot of rowing people here and fencing gets more than its share of discussion.</p>
<p>Few colleges recruit fencers, but those that do are disproportionally elite schools: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Penn, Duke, Vassar, Haverford, Notre Dame are some, and there are more as well, including a few State schools. Scholarships are few and far between, but recruited athletes get huge admissions boosts.</p>
<p>If you want any specific information for your project, feel free to ask away.</p>
<p>Over the past year or so, there have been a few questions about cheerleading scholarships and cycling scholarships. Neither are NCAA sports, but certain schools do scholarship these athletes. University of Louisville scholarships cheerleaders and a handful of schools have cycling programs. Use the search function and I bet you can find these threads.</p>
<p>fencing has to be the winner. I love reading the fencing parents comments, what a great sport!</p>
<p>and so far the only school in the western united states that I’ve heard has a team is Stanford, which sounds like those quirky nuts over there!</p>
<p>san Jose state recruits for Judo, and has a very successful program.</p>
<p>skiing, downhill and x-country; equestrian (Dartmouth); synchronized swimming (Stanford); gymnastics, cycling, volleyball. Also, if you go to the NCAA site, you can find all kinds of unusual sports, e.g. bowling, rifle, women’s wrestling.</p>
<p>Cricket at Haverford!</p>
<p>Our family friend was recruited by and attended the University of Nevada, Reno, to be a part of their rifle team. UNR’s rifle team is really good, and she received a generous scholarship to attend the University.</p>
<p>Sorry I do not remember which college, but I have heard of someone being recruited for BOWLING.
Is Javelin unique???
Does any college recruit for Archery? What about Fishing?</p>
<p>What about Curling?
Surfing??
LOL</p>
<p>got my Varsity letter in college in pistol!</p>