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There’s a bill in front of Congress that would cap international players on college rosters at 20%.
The instinct is that this helps American juniors get recruited. More cap, more room for American players, right?
The math says something different.
D1 women’s tennis has 304 programs. On average, 66% of the players are international. Cap that at 20%, and roughly 180 of those 304 programs can’t fill a competitive roster with the domestic talent pipeline as it stands today.
That doesn’t create 180 programs full of American players. It creates 180 programs that can’t field a full team, at a time when athletic departments are already cutting tennis for budget reasons (Saint Louis, Illinois State, North Dakota all dropped programs this year alone). A roster cap gives an AD one more clean line in the budget memo.
And the players who do stay in the game? Same number of good Americans, chasing a smaller number of “name” programs that can actually recruit domestic talent at scale.
Fewer landing spots doesn’t mean less competition, it means more of it, concentrated at the top. ... See MoreSee Less
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