It’s risky business whenever you talk about ranking recruiting classes. While it’s easy enough to figure out which college program (in any sport) brought in the most players widely agreed on as the best prospects in the nation, the danger is then assuming that program X will be assured of on-field success over the next four years. There are just too many intangibles unfolding between now and then to draw such a conclusion. 

 

It’s preferred to think about recruiting classes as bad or good based on what that program needs and whether or not it brought in players who meet that need. Nevertheless, when it comes to sports, people are into other people being better or worse than one another, so here is our best effort to show which women’s college soccer programs brought in the most talent among 2012 graduates.