<p>I have a D-1 athlete (going off to college in a few short months) and I would say that she was so driven to excel in her sport that there was no way i could have told to quit in order to get better grades. Even if I had forced her to quit or scale back on her sport, I doubt she would have used all her freed-up time to improve her grades that much (not that they weren’t pretty good anyway). The athletic scholarship is no guarantee, but I think you have to parent the kid you have and not focus so much and so early on college recruitment to the exclusion of having her do what she loves now. On the other hand, if she is thinking about focusing more on academics and you think she really will benefit from it, go ahead. The recruitment in the non-revenue sports is not as big as people imagine.</p>