Secrets of a Champion Student-Athlete: A Reality Check

by Obadele Thompson

Overview

Transform and accelerate your student-athlete career with this playbook full of tips and reality checks from Olympic medalist and multiple NCAA champion and record holder Obadele Thompson.

Thompson shares the "secrets" that allowed him to move from being an unrecruited athlete to an Academic All-American, NCAA champion, and recipient of the prestigious NCAA Top VIII Award. He also offers insights from his decade-long career as a professional athlete, research, and countless conversations with professional, college, and high school coaches and athletes.

Featured by the NCAA at its Student-Athlete Education Symposium, Secrets of a Champion Student-Athlete covers a wide range of essential topics for winning on and off the field as a student-athlete.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781737543930
Publisher:	Thompson World Class Performance Consulting LLC
Publication date:	11/25/2021
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Obadele Thompson is an Olympic medalist, multiple NCAA champion, author, speaker, and attorney.

Unrecruited in high school, Obadele contacted The University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP), hoping for an athletic scholarship. He succeeded and went on to have a record-setting collegiate career.

After graduating summa cum laude in Economics and Marketing, he competed globally as a professional athlete for a decade, winning a medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

SELECT HONORS

• Olympic 100-meter dash Medalist
• 4 x NCAA Individual Champion
• 2 x NCAA Record Holder
• NCAA Indoor Track Athlete of the Year
• NCAA Today’s Top VIII Recipient
• CoSIDA First Team-at-Large Academic All-American