What Is The Most Poplar Kind Of Sports Among American Students?

The most popular university sport among US students is American football. Every autumn, students dress in the colors of their university team and head to the stadium to cheer for it. Thus the current descendants continue the traditions of their ancestors from the famous team, which has the symbol New England patriots.

Anyone who is even a little interested in sports in America has heard about America's legendary teams, which you can find here, as well as about the NCAA. This is a sports student league in the United States, in which athletes, playing for their university, try to make their way into professional sports.

To begin with, those American student competitions that we can see on TV, with 20,000 fans on stands, on the grounds of which future players of the NBA, NFL, NHL take part, are just the tip of the college sports iceberg.

There are thousands of colleges and universities in the United States, and not every university has millions of budgets and supports future world-class athletes in their ranks.

NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) is divided into 3 divisions:

NCAA Division 1 (about 350 universities)

This division includes such well-known universities as Duke, North Carolina University, Kansas University, Kentucky University.

First Division universities are the largest universities in the United States, which invest much money in their university sports. Huge sports arenas, training facilities, no worse than NBA teams, and the most promising young athletes from all over the world are the NCAA Division 1.

NCAA Division 2 (about 315 universities)

The second division is represented by smaller universities, but still students live, study and train in excellent conditions, and attendance at sporting events is quite high.

The level of sports teams in the NCAA Division 2 is certainly weaker than in the first division teams. There is a huge difference in the level of play.

The strongest football and basketball teams of the second division are quite capable of playing on a par with the middle players of the first division. Ben Wallace, for example, came from the second division. 

NCAA Division 3 — (450 universities)

The third division is represented by small universities.

The main difference from the 1st and 2nd divisions is that the 3rd division does not give sports scholarships, athletes pay for their training themselves.

In the third division, the level of sports is already much lower

Many people don't know is that students in America don't get any money for playing for university, and despite the fact that university sports are at a very high level in the US, it is still considered amateur.

Thus athletes have the opportunity to study for free in a prestigious educational institution, to get free accommodation and food in exchange for participation in inter-university sports competitions. However, athletes do not receive any money.