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July 2008

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A Foreign Flavor

According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the proportion of foreign athletes at NCAA Division I schools has doubled since the beginning of the decade. In hopes of filling their rosters with world-class players, collegiate coaches usually court those foreign student-athletes who land at American universities and of NC State's 450 student-athletes, about two dozen each year are from outside the U.S., where the Wolfpack has found stellar international talent in recent years.