I investigate the relationship between motivation/improvement in athletics and both\ud
academic achievement and labor market outcomes, using a data set from a small NCAA\ud
Division III Strength and Conditioning Program that details improvement in various\ud
measures of athletic ability and strength across two graduating classes, complemented by\ud
a personally designed and implemented survey of the same pool of athletes postgraduation.\ud
Previous research on this subject typically looks at differences between\ud
athletes and non-athletes. My approach is novel in that it looks at differences among a\ud
sample of athletes as opposed to between athletes and non-athletes. I find that there may\ud
be differences in the way athletic motivation impacts men and women’s labor market\ud
outcomes, but I find no relationship between athletic motivation and academic outcomes
