Now a new study sets out to determine what schools get for the money they shell out to run athletic programs, by measuring whether student athletes fare better in the workplace than their nonathlete peers. From Wordnik.com. [Primary Sources] Reference
Was I (horrors) the pathetically unfit nonathlete battering himself against a force of nature that can pulverize rock into sand, sink impregnable ocean liners and swallow late-thirtyish guys like me for breakfast?. From Wordnik.com. [Surf's Up!] Reference
A graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Georgetown Law School, she was a nonathlete who wound up rowing varsity crew in college, just through sheer force of will. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
But the inside terms were few, and the nonathlete announcers allowed themselves to be hemmed in by them – ‘He got good wood on that on,’ ‘He got the big jump,’ ‘He really challenged him on that one,’ ‘They’re high on him,’ ‘They came to play,’ ‘He’s really got the good hands,’ and ‘That has to be,’ as in ‘That has to be the best game Oakland has ever played.’. From Wordnik.com. [2009 January « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
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