Word: excellence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understatement to say that it is a rare to find Asian-Americans who excel on the football field. Most sports fans would be hard-pressed to name even one Asian in the NFL. Yet Cheng said he never noticed he was a bit of a pioneer, breaking Asian stereotypes on the football field, until his senior year when his government teacher discussed stereotypes and discrimination with him and a Korean friend...
Some athletes complain, in fact, that fellow students don't appreciate how hard they work or recognize how many of them excel...
Athletes can and do excel both in the classroomand on the playing field, says Megan E. Colligan'95, captain of both Women's Varsity Lacrosse andVarsity Field Hockey...
...excel academically, athletes must somehowfind time to read, complete problem sets and writepapers. Too often, they say, people assume thatthey don't bother...
...College athletics (varsity teams) have takenon a professional orientation, they have becomemore time-consuming, and the students who excel onthe teams rarely achieve an academic record highenough for the Rhodes competition...