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James Nicholas tackles football, golf and academics at Yale

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Editor's note: This story originally ran in the Feb. 15 issue of Golfweek.

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James Nicholas does not stop moving. Ever.

“We went on a golf trip (last month), and I can’t remember a time where we were just hanging in the room,” said Will Bernstein, Nicholas’ teammate at Yale. “We were never there to rest.”

At Yale’s campus in New Haven, Conn., high school valedictorians are ubiquitous, yet Nicholas stands out among his exceptional peers. Nicholas, 18, a freshman, plays on the school’s golf and football teams while pursuing a pre-med course load.