She also started her own scholarship fund to help other foster children earn their degrees.
Being an Olympic-level athlete is basically a full-time job.
Plenty of them balance acollege educationon top of their training.
Simone Biles thought she’d have to choose between her college dreams and her gymnastics career, but an online university made it possible for her to do both. She also started her own scholarship fund to help other foster children earn their degrees.
2.In 2018,Simone Bilesbeganpursuinga 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 Nedoroscikgothis electrical engineering degree from Penn State.
4.British sprinter Dina Asher-Smithearnedher history degree from King’s College London.
6.American basketball player Stephen Curryearnedhis bachelor’s in sociology from Davidson College.
12.French skateboarder Charlotte Hymearnedher cognitive neuroscience and psychology doctorate from the University Paris Descartes.
13.American basketball playerMichael Jordanhasa coastal geography degree from the University of North Carolina.
15.American soccer player Mia Hammstudiedpolitical science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
16.Chinese basketball player Yao Mingearnedhis economics degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
17.American soccer player Megan Rapinoegother sociology degree from the University of Portland.
She also earned a PhD in neuroscience from UBC.
19.And finally, American speed skater Eric Heidengothis undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford.
