History Main / AcademicAthlete

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[[caption-width-right:290:He will win the big game and pass the final exam.]]

** Akilah is seen studying for the SATs while in the wilderness, the only one of the survivors who seems to be studying anything at all while there. She also seems to have the most practical knowledge of anyone there when it comes to wilderness survival, having been a Girl Scout.

* ''FanFic/TotalDramaLegacy'' has Storm, the daughter of [[HasTwoDaddies Cameron and Lightning]]. A PassionateSportsGirl with a GPA of 4.0, she is adept both physically and mentally. Unsurprising, considering [[BrainsAndBrawn who her parents are]].

* Misato from ''LightNovel/DidntISayToMakeMyAbilitiesAverageInTheNextLife'' was top of her class in sports and academics alike, and if anything she's even better across the board in her next life.

[[caption-width-right:290:He can win the big game and pass the final exam.]]

* ''Film/TheArcher'': Lauren is both a straight A student and an expert marksman on her high school archery team.

* Maruo Eiichiro in ''Manga/BabySteps'' is the poster child for this. He's a straight-A student before he starts playing tennis and manages to keep his grades up during his very heavy training schedule. It even leaks into his style of play and he keeps maticulous notes of every point in all his matches.

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Mikoto Misaka is better at academics than Touma (despite being a few years younger than him) and also highly athletic. Most of this is justified by Mikoto being a high-level [[PsychicPowers esper]], meaning she receives much better tuition than Touma and has limited SuperIntelligence as a RequiredSecondaryPower - in [[Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun her spinoff series]] the presence of her classmates makes it far less notable.

* On ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'', Shauna Shipman was not only an elite soccer player with the Yellowjackets, but also had straight As and had gained early admission to Brown University before the plane carrying the team to the nationals crashed, leaving the survivors stranded in the woods for 19 months.

* Ken Dryden. Drafted by the Bruins, had his rights traded due to his desire to attend college. Played hockey for four years at [[UsefulNotes/IvyLeague Cornell]], won championships. Went to law school while playing in the minor leagues. Sat out a year in the "UsefulNotes/{{NHL}}" on a contract dispute, and did his law clerking instead. Played 8 seasons in the NHL around that and won 6 Stanley Cups as the goaltender for the powerhouse [[TheSeventies 70s]] Montreal Canadiens. Hall of Famer AND author of one of the best sports memoirs ever, "The Game". Later became a Member of the Canadian Parliament from 2004-2011.

* {{NFL}} quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, a Harvard graduate.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the episode "Lisa on Ice", Lisa discovers that she is failing PE despite her positive grades in school. She tries basketball and volleyball, but fails at both of them. One day, she, Homer and Marge go to pick up Bart from a game in pee wee ice hockey. After the game has ended, Bart teases Lisa by using his hockey stick to shoot pieces of litter at her. She manages to block each piece without any trouble. This does not go unnoticed by Apu; the coach of Bart's opposing team. He hits a hockey puck at her. She manages to grab it. Impressed, Apu recruits Lisa and appoints her as the goalie of his team. She proves to be very skilled in hockey and eventually battles Bart's team.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the episode "Lisa on Ice", Lisa discovers that she is failing PE despite her positive grades in school. She tries basketball and volleyball, but fails at both of them. One day, she, Homer and Marge pick up Bart from one of his games in pee wee ice hockey. Bart teases her by using his hockey stick to shoot pieces of litter at her. She manages to block each piece without any trouble. This does not go unnoticed by Apu; the coach of Bart's opposing team. He hits a hockey puck at Lisa. She manages to grab it. Impressed, Apu recruits Lisa and appoints her as the goalie of his team. She proves to be very skilled in hockey and eventually battles Bart's team.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the episode "Lisa on Ice", Lisa discovers that she is failing PE despite her positive grades in school. She tries basketball and volleyball, but fails at both of them. One day, she, Homer and Marge pick up Bart from one of his games in pee wee ice hockey. Bart teases Lisa by using his hockey stick to shoot pieces of litter at Lisa. She manages to block the litter without any trouble. This does not go unnoticed by Apu; the coach of Bart's opposing team. As a test, he hits a hockey puck at Lisa. She manages to successfully grab it. Impressed, Apu recruits Lisa and appoints her as the goalie of his team. She proves to be very skilled in hockey and even battles Bart's team.

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Mikoto Misaka is better at academics than Touma (despite being a few years younger than him) and also highly athletic. Most of this is justified by Mikoto being a high-level [[PsychicPowers esper]], meaning she receives much better tuition than Touma and has limited SuperIntelligence as a RequiredSecondaryPower - in [[Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun her spinoff series]] the presence of her classmates makes it far less notable.

* Misato from ''LightNovel/DidntISayToMakeMyAbilitiesAverageInTheNextLife'' was top of her class in sports and academics alike, and if anything she's even better across the board in her next life.

* ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'': The title character is excellent at P.E. and does her homework effortlessly.

* Shana of ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'' fame is shown as being hypercompetent at both, which is in part justified by her being a superhuman.

* Sayumi Takanashi of ''LightNovel/WhenSupernaturalBattlesBecameCommonplace'' is second best at studies in the school and has two black belts.

* The Literature/DearAmerica book ''With The Might of Angels'' has Dawnie who has the highest grades in the elementary division of her school but more than anything she wants to be part of the All-American Girls Baseball League.

--> '''Ava:''' She's a cheetah, ''and'' a tyrant when it comes to science fair projects.* Yuki, Shindou, and Musa from ''Literature/RunWithTheWind'' are all excellent university students as well as members of the Kansei University's long distance track team. Yuki passed the bar exam in one try, Musa is a foreign exchange student who studies engineering (and speaks fluent Japanese), and he and Shindou always get good grades and are lightly mocked by the team as those "damn honour students". All three start off as lacking runners, but eventually become good enough to get officially recorded times and help the team qualify for Hakone Ekiden.

* ''Manga/RandmaOneHalf'': Tatewaki Kuno is the captain of his school kendo team and noted to get very good grades. On the other hand, his academic smarts don't stop him from [[DitzyGenius being a complete idiot in other ways]].

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': The title character is excellent at P.E. and does her homework effortlessly.

* This was done to Mr. Freeze in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', with Victor Fries described as a decathlete who won a Nobel Prize for his work in molecular biology. It was mostly because of them casting Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger in the role.

* The Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse version of Victor Stone before he got crippled in a car accident and became ComicBook/{{Cyborg}}. He was in the football team of Gotham City University and worked with his parents at S.T.A.R. Labs. His football career is touched upon in ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', and his former self wearing his GCU jacket is [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith his avatar]] when he ventures in the digital world.

** His dad, James, was star Chaser on his own Quidditch team all while being the top of his class and becoming an illegal animagus under Dumbledore’s nose at fifteen. Even Dumbledore had to help [=McGonagal=] with it when she was in school.

* Yuki, Shindou, and Musa from ''Literature/RunWithTheWind'' are all excellent university students as well as members of the Kansei University's long distance track team. Yuki passed the bar exam in one try, Musa is a foreign exchange student who studies engineering (and speaks fluent Japanese), and he and Shindou always get good grades and are lightly mocked by the team as those "damn honour students". All three start off as lacking runners, but eventually become good enough to get officially recorded times and help the team qualify for Hakone Ekiden.

* ''Film/Me, Myself & Irene'': Lee Harvey, oldest child of Hank Evans, is an athlete and among the top three brightest students in high school.

* ''Film/Me, Myself & Irene'': Lee, the oldest child of Hank Evans, is an athlete and among the top three brightest students in high school.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the episode "Lisa on Ice", Lisa discovers that she is failing PE despite her positive grades in school. She tries basketball and volleyball, but fails at both of them. One day, she, Homer and Marge pick up Bart from one of his games in pee wee ice hockey. Bart teases Lisa by using his hockey stick to shoot pieces of litter at Lisa. She manages to block the litter without any trouble. This does not go unnoticed by Apu, the coach of Bart's opposing team. As a test, he hits a hockey puck at Lisa. She manages to successfully grab it. Impressed, Apu recruits Lisa and appoints her as the goalie of his team. She proves to be very skilled in hockey and even battles Bart's team.