Destined for greatness

Students with the potential to become elite athletes require extra support to meet their academic and sporting commitments. Linda Belardi investigates the challenge of finding a balance. Year 11 student Stephen Smith is not only an elite sportsman - having reached the highest level of baseball training in NSW and a top 25 national player - but is first in his class in economics, and top five in extension mathematics, chemistry and physics. Smith, who trains up to eight hours a week, plays three games of baseball on the weekend and adds six hours of gym to his sporting load, still finds the...

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