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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Former D1 Power 4 athlete here. Won the conference a few times.[/b]

I never found it helped me in terms of networks and connection. Then again I was not a lacrosse player.

It did help me at a T10 law school because law school wasn’t that challenging without the rigor of athletics. I wasn’t that bright but was tough minded and really efficient. Did well as one possibly could (law review editor too) and that is what opened doors. Would I have done as well without athletics? Absolutely not. But if you want to network, network. Athletics didn’t do it for me. No regrets. [/quote]

Athletics is always a good ice breaker and demonstrates drive, time management, grit, etc. The real advantages come when athletics are combined with the benefits of Ivy, NESCAC, and Patriot Alumni networks which are very real.[/quote]

My school was ranked higher than most of the schools you mention. That’s why I went there. As a very poor kid, a valuable scholarship. I was so busy with my academics and caught up in the athletic world that I didn’t really establish a network. In hindsight I should have.

The network I did have was for coaching and teaching. Most of my competitors followed that path. I was not interested in that alternative and honestly wouldn’t have been very good at coaching or teaching.

My first job out of college was trading futures on the CME. And I did know someone but he not connected with athletics. My connection helped me get a job to quickly understand the vagaries of the cutout - a summary of meat packer margins on hogs and cattle which enabled me to trade. I was B plus trader - good enough to be effective and understand the crazy business - especially to engage fully in periods of volatility- but like athletics I used it rather than use me. I spent virtually nothing and saved virtually all of the income. You really need a A plus killer instinct along with brains, and very few people had it. I didn’t, although did ok because I was a reasonable guy who didn’t piss people off. My fiancé (now my spouse) was very supportive of my going to law school because she did not like the casino gambling aspect of the job.

The best I ever saw was a steelworker’s kid from Granite City. No network, first job out of high school for him was as an egg grader for the USDA. Went to East St Louis Lincoln High School (like Dick Durbin). Southern Illinois grad. Incredibly good trader. I learned more from him than in college, although my education allowed me to put he was doing in a formal and permanent structure. Athletics didn’t get me into any network. Likely my failing. I would recommend networking as a result.

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