Participation in highschool sports activities had declined lately, with a lot of the blame forged towards the pandemic’s grip that suffocated the normalcy in American tradition.
However the numbers in 2023 are displaying constructive tendencies, an increase that has not been seen in highschool sports activities since 1995.
In accordance with a examine carried out by Lending Tree, the numbers obtained from the Nationwide Federation of State Excessive Faculty Associations (NFHS) present that almost 6 million college students participated in sports activities throughout the 2022-23 calendar, a 3.1% enhance from 2021-22.
And whereas that general bump is decrease than the record-high of 2017-18, the place some 6.1 million college students performed highschool sports activities, the rise is a welcomed development within the grand scheme of the “New Regular.”
Nonetheless, probably the most attention-grabbing knowledge from the examine goes past the macro and spotlights a micro-focused breakdown of every state’s participation numbers, which incorporates boys’ and ladies’ percentages towards the general whole.
Which states have the best participation charges?
The bottom?
Though a few of rankings throughout the nation weren’t shocking, the reply to each questions got here with a heavy dose of astonishment.
Have a look …
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 21.8%
Women’ participation: 17%
General: 19.4%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 23.9%
Women’ participation: 20.2%
General: 22.2%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 28.2%
Women’ participation: 20.2%
General: 24.3%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 28.6%
Women’ participation: 21.5%
General: 25.1%
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Boys’ participation: 30.3%
Women’ participation: 19.6%
General: 25.1%
(BRIAN JENKINS/for the Free Press-Burlington)
Boys’ participation: 25.1%
Women’ participation: 26.4%
General: 25.7%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 32.5%
Women’ participation: 18.8%
General: 25.9%
(AP Picture/Rick Bowmer)
Boys’ participation: 29.6%
Women’ participation: 24.2%
General: 27%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 34.7%
Women’ participation: 21.1%
General: 28.2%
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Boys’ participation: 31.5%
Women’ participation: 24.9%
General: 28.3%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 31.7%
Women’ participation: 25.4%
General: 28.6%
(Wendell Cruz-USA TODAY Sports activities)
Boys’ participation: 30.9%
Women’ participation: 26.7%
General: 28.9%
(Anchorage Each day Information)
Boys’ participation: 31.7%
Women’ participation: 27.1%
General: 29.4%
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Boys’ participation: 33.9%
Women’ participation: 26.2%
General: 30.2%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 35.5%
Women’ participation: 26.9%
General: 31.4%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 41.9%
Women’ participation: 25.2%
General: 33.6%
(AP Picture/John Raby, File)
Boys’ participation: 38.7%
Women’ participation: 28.9%
General: 33.9%
(Picture: Shane Fuller)
Boys’ participation: 38%
Women’ participation: 31.5%
General: 34.9%
(Picture: Sean Anthony, La Cueva Softball).
Boys’ participation: 38.3%
Women’ participation: 32%
General: 35.2%
(Picture: Tracy Harris)
Boys’ participation: 40.3%
Women’ participation: 30.1%
General: 35.4%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 39%
Women’ participation: 32.7%
General: 35.9%
(Picture: Bryan Woolston/Particular to the Courier Journal)
Boys’ participation: 38.1%
Women’ participation: 33.8%
General: 36%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 42.2%
Women’ participation: 29.6%
General: 36%
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Boys’ participation: 39.2%
Women’ participation: 33.7%
General: 36.5%
(AP Picture/Bradley Leeb)
Boys’ participation: 43.4%
Women’ participation: 33.1%
General: 38.4%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 39.9%
Women’ participation: 37.7%
General: 38.8%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 39.5%
Women’ participation: 39.7%
General: 39.6%
(USA TODAY)
Boys’ participation: 46.2%
Women’ participation: 33.2%
General: 39.9%
(Picture: Bryon Ng)
Boys’ participation: 44.1%
Women’ participation: 35.4%
General: 40%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 45.6%
Women’ participation: 34.1%
General: 40%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 45.6%
Women’ participation: 34.4%
General: 40.1%
(Picture: Glenn Gilley)
Boys’ participation: 44.4%
Women’ participation: 37.5%
General: 41.2%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 45.9%
Women’ participation: 38%
General: 42.1%
(Picture: Sherry Saccoliti)
Boys’ participation: 49%
Women’ participation: 36.3%
General: 42.7%
(Wm. Glasheen USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
Boys’ participation: 49.3%
Women’ participation: 36.9%
General: 43.4%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 47%
Women’ participation: 41.4%
General: 44.3%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 50.6%
Women’ participation: 41.7%
General: 46.2%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 52.1%
Women’ participation: 41.1%
General: 46.7%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 50.4%
Women’ participation: 44.8%
General: 47.8%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 53.7%
Women’ participation: 42.8%
General: 48.4%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 50.1%
Women’ participation: 47.1%
General: 48.7%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 56.1%
Women’ participation: 41.4%
General: 48.9%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 59.2%
Women’ participation: 44.6%
General: 52.3%
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Boys’ participation: 57.9%
Women’ participation: 46.1%
General: 52.3%
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Boys’ participation: 64.1%
Women’ participation: 42.7%
General: 53.6%
(Picture by Stephen Maturen/Getty Pictures)
Boys’ participation: 58.6%
Women’ participation: 49.6%
General: 54.1%
(AP Picture/Laramie Boomerang, Ben Woloszyn)
Boys’ participation: 55.6%
Women’ participation: 53.2%
General: 54.5%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 65%
Women’ participation: 47.6%
General: 56.1%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 64.9%
Women’ participation: 51.5%
General: 58.6%
(USA TODAY Community)
Boys’ participation: 66.7%
Women’ participation: 57.3%
General: 62.1%