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.: Women's Division I Psyche Sheet

March 3rd, 2006

These 281 ladies just received their invitations to the ball. Official Psyche Sheet

By the numbers here's a profile of this year's class:
Sixty-one teams received invites, with Auburn fielding the only full team (18) followed by Georgia (16), Arizona (15), Texas (13), Penn State, Cal-Berkeley, and SMU (12 each). Twenty lone-wolves represent their reprective schools.

California produced more qualifiers than any other state (43) followed by Florida (20) and Texas (17) combined. Ohio (15) and Pennsylvania (12). There were no qualifiers from twelve states.

Just over 15% of qualifiers were born in twenty-five different countries. Canadians lead the way with seven. Peru was a hotbed of talent with more qualifiers than Idaho, the Dakotas, Vermont, Mississippi, Alaska, Hawaii, and New Mexico combined.

The team diversity award goes to Texas with 13 qualifiers from a dozen different states. USC was perfect with ten qualifiers from ten states.

Seventy-eight freshmen qualified for the meet versus just sixty sophomores, seventy-seven Juniors and sixty-six seniors.

The SEC produced the most qualifiers (67), followed by the Pac 10 (63), and Big 10 (57). Those three account for two-thirds of the meet.

Smallest team represented? Gardner-Webb with just 3,697 students. Biggest? Ohio State with 50,995, 587 ahead of Texas. Best? We'll find out in a week.