Opinions on Athletes

googledrone
Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:36:39 +0000

I am not an athlete (unless you count playing for Stanford’s ultimate frisbee club team). I didn’t see any animosity toward Stanford athletes. One of my best friends was on the tennis team. I recall reading an article where Stanford athletes’ average GPA was higher than the general student population although I can’t find the article at the moment. If this is true, it would be hard to make the point athletes aren’t academically competitive at Stanford.

Because there are so many accomplished students at Stanford with varied interests, athletes don’t seem to stand out on campus the way they do at some other schools. In one of my freshman classes there was this very tall female student. No one knew her as anything other than a student in the class. Later I found out she was arguably the most highly recruited prep player in the history of college volleyball.