Table 5.

Incidence of sudden cardiac death in sports.

Sport	Athlete Deaths	Athlete-Years	Incidence per Athlete-Year	Incidence over 4-year career
Men's basketball	19	170,590	1 in 8,978	1 in 2,245
Men's soccer	9	213,205	1 in 23,689	1 in 5,922
Men's Football	18	647,125	1 in 35,951	1 in 8,988
Men's Swimming	2	85,568	1 in 42,784	1 in 10,696
Men's Cross-country	3	128,570	1 in 42,857	1 in 10,714
Men's Lacrosse	2	91,699	1 in 45,850	1 in 11,463
Women's Cross-country	3	141,268	1 in 47,089	1 in 11,772
Women's Volleyball	3	147,653	1 in 49,217	1 in 12,304
Men's Baseball	6	300,137	1 in 50,023	1 in 12,505
NCAA Athletes	79	4,242,519	1 in 53,703	1 in 13,426
Women's Swimming	2	115,221	1 in 57,611	1 in 14,402
Women's basketball	2	154,121	1 in 77,061	1 in 19,265,
Men's track	2	241,041	1 in 120,521	1 in 30,130

* Sports with one death: men's crew, women's golf, women's softball, women's tennis, men's tennis, women's track, wrestling, women's lacrosse

□ Other sports had no identified SCDs