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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Athletes don’t bring anything to the table that a talented musician, performer, inventor or businessperson also brings. Why special elite slots for them should be reserved to fill teams boggles my mind. Make all the sports club sports with no recruiting value other than an EC. [/quote]

The intangibles that successful student athletes possess usually leads to these same kids succeeding and excelling in business, they are highly sought after by the most discriminating of employers to include and particularly wall street.

When I was at an elite group within a T3 investment bank I remember every recruiting season HR would drop a resume book of literally hundreds of resumes from a handful of school and asked for me to pick out some.  When every resume is harvard, penn, columbia, etc. I looked for differentiating factors and athletics was among the top criteria I used.  But more importantly, when it came to actually speaking with these candidates it was night - day in terms of how much better they were put together/polished from an effective communication perspective.[/quote]

Yep.  I am friends with and family members of some really, really, really smart people that also happened to be D1 athletes in their sport.  These people were in the top of their high school class, near perfect standardized test scores, very high GPAs.

They did this with all of the time limitations dedication to a sport at that level takes.  AP/honors courses with a few hours of practice a night, traveling/games all weekend long, having to leave school early some days because of practices....and some of these kids headed up Clubs or were in student government, etc.

Being part of a sports team teaches you lessons of working together to accomplish a goal.  You experience failure, getting cut, persevering, working with some you may not get along with to accomplish a goal.  LEADERSHIP.

Yes- you can achieve these things in other ways, but as a female in STEM--I find most of the women I know holding top CEO/CFO type positions all played sports competitively.[/quote]

What if you wanted to play softball or take ballet lessons when you were little, and your parents wouldn’t pay nor were they willing to investigate any low-cost or free community programs?[/quote]

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