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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was on the recruiting committee of biglaw firm I learned that the managing partner nearly insisted that the good candidates have strong team sports on their resume -- preferably at the college level. So you can't just blanket say "better grades equals more opportunities". You'd be wrong. [/quote]

I have seen this in other fields also. People who have never played a team sport frequently are missing a lot of important skills that are important in a business setting. Working with teammates to win at a sport has many similarities to working with associates to put a winning case together or write a winning sales presentation. Sports develop a lot of qualities that the classroom does not. 
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sports teaches discipline, motivation, drive, teamwork, handling success and failure.   As an aside, more than half of top female executives played sports in college:

https://hbr.org/2014/10/research-more-than-half-of-female-execs-were-college-athletes

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Interesting article.  Of all top C-suites (CEO, CCO etc..) that are women in this country, only 3% never played sports.  [/quote]

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