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Success Off The Field: Academic Strategies Of High-Gpa College Athletes, Ashlynn Erbe
Success Off The Field: Academic Strategies Of High-Gpa College Athletes, Ashlynn Erbe
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This study investigated the strategies academically successful college student athletes use to do well in their class work, where academic success was defined as a 3.5 GPA for 12 or more credits for the two semesters preceding the study. Data were transcriptions of individual interviews with five male and five female athletes in seven sports at an NCAA Division I university in the western United States. Independent coders analyzed the data and agreed upon themes related to challenges to academic success and strategies to meet those challenges. Findings add to the literature by detailing self-regulatory habits that academically underprepared athletes …