Athletes have so many demands on their time, from practice to team meetings to long road trips. They often miss class, which means they must spend time in a hotel, plane, bus or holed up in study hall catching up.
If they graduate with an undergraduate degree in four years you know they are hard workers who made academics a priority.
But then there are others who push the edge of the envelope and go on to earn a master's degree. ODU has 19 athletes who pushed that envelope and are enrolled in graduate school, including seven football players and three each from the rowing and baseball teams.