Sport with the smartest athletes?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>What do you guys think is the sport with the smartest athletes? At my school, the long-distance runners tend to be the smartest. I wonder if there’s some sort of study that proves this.</p>

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<p>I remember reading, somewhere, that swimmers, gymnasts, tennis players, and golfers are the smartest.</p>

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<p>Roflmao “proves this”. Prove what? There is no causation thing going on here. It will merely show a correlation, if there is one.</p>

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<p>LOL</p>

<p>lets make an list of athletes with their SAT scores + GPA’s</p>

<p>ill start off</p>

<p>junior
long distance runner
SAT - 2250 (1st time)
GPA - 3.87/4.56</p>

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<p>in my school, it’s the long-distance runners, as well. hm, weird :stuck_out_tongue: next would be swimmers & tennis players. gymnasts…that’s lolful.</p>

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<p>football tackle
GPA 4.0/4.0
SAT 2400
ACT 36</p>

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<p>Nice username NJSoccer.</p>

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<p>^Lol .</p>

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<p>My school, for whatever pathetic reason, actually calculates the GPA’s of the sports teams. XC has been #1 for as long as I can remember.</p>

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<p>At my school, it’s definitely men’s tennis.</p>

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<p>Yea, it seems like it’s probably XC for us</p>

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<p>Endurance sports or sports that need a lot of money. Endurance sports require willpower and if you have the willpower to run/swim/bike far, then you probably have the focus and willpower to get through your homework. At my school, XC runners have probably been one of the most successful teams.</p>

<p>People who play sports like golf, polo, tennis, fencing, etc. that need lots of money are probably better academically simply because of the correlation between academic success and money.</p>

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<p>Probably swimming at my school. It’s pretty expensive, or so my friend tells me.</p>

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<p>At my old school, it was track.</p>

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<p>Tennis, but that’s because they don’t have as many athletes. Not to mention the fact that both the valedictorian and salutatorian are both on the team lol.</p>

<p>Track comes in a close second, though. And we won states last season. So go us.</p>

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<p>Tennis/track.</p>

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<p>Tennis! :D</p>

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<p>Im not sure what it is at my school probably XC and Tennis, but my coach (who used to be a bio teacher) said that in a test on mice they found that running produces more brain cells or something like that, but will power and endurance probably have something to do with it to.</p>

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<p>At my school, it’s generally volleyball, tennis, and swimming.</p>

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<p>Definitely Track and Field at my school.</p>