Some related data......

Sports participation trending numbers:

Baseball - decrease for 4 straight years
Basketball - decrease for 9 years
Cross Country - increase for 9 years
Football - decrease for 4 years
Golf - decrease
Gymnastics - 265 participants 10 years ago, 142 last year
Soccer - increase
Softball - decrease 3 years
Swimming - increase
Track - slight increase
Volleyball - decrease for 10 years
Wrestling - slight increase

Numbers for the past 10 years.....

Basketball boys - down 9.8%
Basketball girls - down 12.2%
Football 8 man - down 4.8%
Golf boys - down 19.3%
Gymnastics - down 46.5%
Volleyball - down 8%


Baseball - up 6.6%
Cross Country boys - up 24%
Cross Country girls - up 17.7%
Football 11 man - up 1.1%
Golf girls - up 7.3%
Soccer boys - up 16%
Soccer girls - up 29%
Softball - up 2.8%
Swimming boys - up 38.3%
Swimming girls - up 18.8%
Tennis boys - up 21.4%
Tennis girls - up 11%
Track boys - up 10.7%
Track girls - up 8.3%
Wrestling - up 9%

http://www.nfhs.org/Participation/SportSearch.aspx