Here at College Gym News, we love leotards! So much so that we started building out our leotard database in 2020 and spent last offseason adding as full of a history to the database as we could find. Now that we’ve collected all this data on leotards, we decided to dive in to see what kinds of trends emerged about when leotards are debuted, how often they’re worn, and more. Read on to find out what we learned!
Leotard Stats
To begin our analysis, we looked at some general stats about the leotards we have available in the database. Across all currently active teams, we have 2237 leotards dating back to 2006! However, these aren’t evenly distributed across teams. In the chart below you can see how many leotards we have in our database for each team. At the high end, we have Florida with 110 leotards in the database, followed by Georgia with 83, while at the low end, Ithaca has just two leotards in the database that they’ve been wearing at all their meets for the past four years.
Of the over 2000 leotards in the database, the average number of times a leotard is worn is 4.3, but there is a wide range of repeated wears. Nine leotards have been worn by their teams over 20 times, while 380 leotards (almost 17%) have only been worn once. 784 (35%) of the…
