{"id":345395,"date":"2023-11-10T21:10:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T22:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=345395"},"modified":"2023-11-10T23:00:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T23:00:32","slug":"where-does-your-state-rank-data-shows-percentage-of-high-school-students-who-participate-in-sports-across-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=345395","title":{"rendered":"Where does your state rank? Data shows percentage of high school students who participate in sports across the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Participation in high school sports had declined in recent years, with much of the blame cast toward the pandemic&#8217;s grip that suffocated the normalcy in American culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But the numbers in 2023 are showing positive trends, a rise that has not been seen in high school sports since 1995.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to a study\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lendingtree.com\/debt-consolidation\/youth-sports-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">conducted by Lending Tree<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, the numbers obtained from the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) show that nearly 6 million students participated in sports during the 2022-23 calendar, a 3.1% increase from 2021-22.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">And while that overall bump is lower than the record-high of 2017-18, where some 6.1 million students played high school sports, the increase is a welcomed progression in the grand scheme of the &#8220;New Normal.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, the most interesting data from the study goes beyond the macro and spotlights a micro-focused breakdown of each state&#8217;s participation numbers, which includes boys&#8217; and girls&#8217; percentages toward the overall total.<\/p>\n<p>Which states have the highest participation rates?<\/p>\n<p>The lowest?<\/p>\n<p>Although some of rankings across the country weren&#8217;t surprising, the answer to both questions came with a heavy dose of astonishment.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The answer might shock you.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345396,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345395\/revisions\/345396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}