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With the NCAA Divison One Championships drawing to a close, I figured it was now or never if I wanted to share the results of an informal survey I did about the number of international athletes who competed for U.S. schools this past year (X-Country, Indoors, Outdoors). The total came to more than 1,100 athletes, with 96 countries represented. I’ll leave it to others to draw any conclusions, but it should be noted that not all athletes received a scholarship and not all were heavily recruited “stars”. Some were born or reside in the U.S., but maintain citizenship from another country. I hope to post the complete breakdown shortly. International Athletes Competing for U.S. Colleges-2003 Athletes 1127 (Men-610, Women-517) Countries 96 Schools with most int’l athletes: (Division One unless otherwise noted) 25 Southern Methodist 25 Texas-El Paso 22 Central Arizona (Junior College) 18 Arkansas 18 Idaho 18 Memphis 17 Eastern Michigan 17 McNeese State 17 New Orleans 17 Providence 16 Auburn 15 Texas-Arlington 14 Kennesaw State (Div.II) 14 Northern Arizona 14 Rice 12 Arkansas State 12 Boston U. 12 South Plains (Junior College) 11 Arkansas-Little Rock 11 Butler 11 Manhattan 11 Central Methodist (NAIA) 11 Harvard 11 NY Tech (Div.II) 10 Tulane 10 Alabama 10 Oklahoma State 10 Barton County (Junior College) 10 Seton Hall 10 Texas Christian 10 Southern Cal 10 Wyoming Best Represented Countries 246 Canada 134 Kenya 101 Jamaica 49 Sweden 41 England 36 Ireland 34 Bahamas 32 Trinidad 28 New Zealand 28 Germany 23 Hungary 22 Nigeria 21 Australia
