15 Best Multi-Sport College Athletes of All Time

These college athletes take over achievement to new heights. Get to know the top-ranking multi-sport athletes in college sport's history.

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If you’ve been to college, you understand how utterly minute the time you spend in an actual classroom is. Raised on 40 hours of school per week since early elementary school, you’d be forgiven to feel like the “real world” doesn’t start with your first job, it begins with the first grade. 

For a dozen years you wake up early, and go to sleep late. You do work at school, only to be given extra for home. And just when it seems like there is no end to it all, high school graduation comes. You’re given a worthy reward: a land with no parental supervision, parties every night, and classes that are over before noon on a Tuesday.

While that reward is eventually offset (see: repaid, with interest) by tuition/student loan payments, it also gives you spare time unlike any other period in your life—outside of summer break, of course. What you do with that freedom is up to you. Getting a job, studying, or sitting around all day are all excellent choices, but this list of student-athletes maxed out their schedules. Playing two or more sports gave them little free time to do anything—including, in a few cases, going to class. 

In a world where year-round competition presses many people to choose their game as early as their preteens, this collection of sportsmen kept their options open until a time when we’re all forced to finally make a decision on the future. Here’s The Best Multi-Sport College Athletes of All Time:    

Julius Peppers

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Kirk Gibson

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C.J. Spiller

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Jeff Samardzija

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Herschel Walker

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Wilt Chamberlain

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John Elway

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Charlie Ward

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Robert Griffin III

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Dave Winfield

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Jackie Robinson

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Deion Sanders

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Jim Brown

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Bo Jackson

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Jim Thorpe

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