19 Olympic Athletes With Random But Impressive Degrees
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Being an Olympic-level athlete is basically a full-time job. Plenty of them balance a college education on top of their training. While pursuing a sports-related degree (like athletic training or sports journalism) seems like a logical next step, many of them pursue a completely new field.
Here are 19 Olympic athletes whose college degrees have nothing to do with sports:
1.American tennis player Serena Williamsstudied fashion design at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale.
2.In 2018, Simone Biles began pursuing a bachelor's in business administration at the University for the People. Simultaneously, she started the Simone Biles Legacy Scholarship Fund to help foster children and others earn their degrees.
3.American gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik got his electrical engineering degree from Penn State.
4.British sprinter Dina Asher-Smith earned her history degree from King's College London.
5.Burkinabé jumper Hugues Fabrice Zango earned his master's in engineering and electric Systems and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Artois University.
6.American basketball player Stephen Curry earned his bachelor's in sociology from Davidson College.
7.American fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad earned dual bachelor's degrees in African and African American studies and international relations from Duke.
8.American figure skater Michelle Kwan has a bachelor's in international studies from the University of Denver and a master's in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
9.Chinese table tennis player Deng Yaping earned her bachelor's from Tsinghua University, a master's in Contemporary Chinese Studies from the University of Nottingham, and a PhD in land economy from the University of Cambridge.
10.Austrian cyclist Anna Kiesenhofer earned her bachelor's in maths and physics from the Vienna University of Technology, her master's in pure mathematics from the University of Cambridge, and her PhD (where she did her thesis on integrable systems on b-symplectic manifolds) from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
11.American basketball player Shaquille O'Nealhas a doctorate in education from Barry University and a bachelor's in general studies from Louisiana State University.
12.French skateboarder Charlotte Hym earned her cognitive neuroscience and psychology doctorate from the University Paris Descartes.
13.American basketball player Michael Jordan has a coastal geography degree from the University of North Carolina.
14.British rower Dame Katherine Grainger DBE CBE has several impressive degrees—a law degree from Edinburgh University, a master's degree in medical Law and medical ethics from Glasgow University, and a Ph.D. in the sentencing of homicide from King's College.
15.American soccer player Mia Hamm studied political science at the University of Alabama.
16.Chinese basketball player Yao Ming earned his economics degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
17.American soccer player Megan Rapinoe got her sociology degree from the University of Portland.
18.Canadian gymnast Lise Leveille got her bachelor's in biomechanical engineering and human biology from Stanford, then earned her medical degree and completed her orthopedics residency at the University of British Columbia. She also earned a PhD in neuroscience from UBC.
19.And finally, American speed skater Eric Heiden got his undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford.
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