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[quote=Anonymous]"I had to find ways to self-motivate. I think some of the same work ethic helped between sports and academics."

The DMV is not the place to find students where giftedness and sports overlap.  Most/almost all schools/districts in the DMV have opportunities to challenge even the most gifted students academically.

Yes, your Einstein may not have trouble getting straight As at TJ but TJ also offers Quiz bowl or Robotics or whatever where they are challenged to spend all their time in order to beat the HS down the road.

I grew up in the middle of nowhere.  I can pretty much promise you that if your gifted child grew up in a place where the only way to beat the HS down the road was in a sport, they would find a way to be good at a sport.

We had runners, tennis players, point guards, pitchers, discus throwers, soccer, lax and hockey goalies that had minimal athletic talent but who thought their way to excellence at HS level sports and competence in college.

The breaking point for most was the level of getting a scholarship.  Scholarship money got the attention of more talented athletes who were just too good.

It might also be that at the scholarship level coaching improved to the point where coaching experience overcame gifted thought.

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