<p>I've been away from this forum for a while, as my athlete is now a senior with one competition remaining in her collegiate career. However, I came across this article in "The Stanford Daily" which deals with some of the issues faced by Div, 1 student athletes. I thought it might be helpful for the students just embarking on this journey. Note: the freshman Solomon quoted in the article is already an Olympian</p>
<p>Great article - loved the qoute. It is so true</p>
<p>“It’s also frustrating how students will think that student-athletes never would’ve gotten in here without their sport,” admitted another athlete. “[That] is probably true, but what they don’t understand is that all the hours that [athletes] put in high school into extracurriculars and having time to study and take extra classes. We put all of that extra time and effort into going to soccer practice every night, missing school for tournaments, being gone every weekend. [We] got in with our own hard work in just a slightly different way.”</p>
<p>Funny story…D had a group project to do with 5 other non-athletes. They met the first time, and started out dividing up roles. Three or four times, my D volunteered to take the next task, and she was told “no, I’ll take it.” She siad it suddenly dawned on her that no one wanted to give her a job because they knew she was an athlete, and assumed a lesser intelligence. You can imagine their shock when the professor came over to their group to select the group captain, and chose my D. When asked by others why he chose her particularly, he stated “each group captain has the highest GPA on their team.” Top 20 ranked US school. </p>