To make recruiting even more difficult, coaches value international water polo players just as much as they do domestic water polo players. If you want to secure a water polo scholarship by the time you are a senior in high school, you must learn how to control your own fate when it comes to recruiting.o make recruiting even more difficult, coaches value international water polo players just as much as they do domestic water polo players. If you want to secure a water polo scholarship by the time you are a senior in high school, you must learn how to control your own fate when it comes to recruiting.
As of January 2016, there were 27,198 fire departments registered with the National Fire Department Census. This is about 91 percent of all U.S. fire departments. Census registration is voluntary.
Key findings. 1  There were 1,134,400 career and volunteer firefighters in the U.S. in 2014, of which 82,550 (7%) were women firefighters. 2  Since 1986, the number of career firefighters per 1,000 population has been constant, however the number of volunteer firefighters per 1,000 population has been decreasing. 15% of fire departments were all career/mostly career and protected approximately 2/3rd of the U.S. population.