In 1912, Robeson attended Somerville High School, where he performed in Julius Caesar, Othello, sang in the chorus, and excelled in football, basketball, baseball and track.

Jackson graduated from Cheltenham High School in 1964, where he excelled in football, basketball, baseball, and track and field.

All Southwest Conference in basketball, he also excelled at college baseball and track and field and achieved the highest GPA ( pre-law ) of any Arkansas athlete through the 1980s.

Gaze also excelled at the international arena, and in 2000 became ( jointly with American Teresa Edwards ) the third basketball player to compete at five Olympics, after Puerto Rican Teófilo Cruz and Brazilian Oscar Schmidt.

Bradley was born and raised in Crystal City, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and excelled at basketball from an early age.

Hennigan graduated in 1953 from Minden High School, where he excelled in football, basketball, and track as well as academics.

McNabb also excelled in track and field during his high school years, and played on the school basketball team with Antoine Walker.

Owens attended Benjamin Russell High School, where he excelled in football, baseball, and basketball.

Subsequently, he played college basketball for George Washington University, where he excelled as a player under coach Mike Jarvis, also helping revive the basketball program.

She was born in Cali, Colombia, as a student she excelled in high-speed athletics and basketball.

Nevers excelled in several sports, including basketball and baseball.

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In high school he excelled in football, basketball, baseball and track and field earning 1st team recognition his senior year on Pennsylvania's all-state football and basketball teams.

Cameron's sports teams, particularly football and basketball, excelled during that time, and a new President's home was constructed on Gore Blvd west of the campus.

He also attended another public high school where he excelled in basketball and baseball.

He excelled in baseball, basketball and soccer in high school.

He attended Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Washington and excelled in high school football, baseball, and basketball.

He also excelled in football and basketball.

He was a mediocre student academically, but excelled as an athlete on the school basketball team.

As well as football, Alexander excelled in basketball and baseball.

Born in Baker, California, Cowher excelled in football, basketball, and track for Carlynton High in Crafton, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

While most of the actors enjoyed and excelled at their orientation, Cruise opted to leave the training for the comforts of a nearby hotel until filming began, reportedly to isolate himself and " get into the mindset " of his psychopathic character, Cadet Captain David Shawn.

The poem was written in Sapphic stanzas, a verse form popularly associated with his compatriot, Sappho, but in which he too excelled, here paraphrased in English to suggest the same rhythms.

As a boy Ethan already excelled at quoting the Bible and was known for disputing the meaning of passages.

Fermi was widely regarded as the only physicist of the 20th century who excelled both theoretically and experimentally.

Ovid was a witty writer who excelled in creating lively and passionate characters.

Heydrich was very intelligent and excelled in his schoolwork — especially in science — at the " Reformgymnasium ".

Milgram excelled academically and was a great leader among his peers.

He excelled under the pressure, which was extremely great given the complex and badly funded nature of the Royal Navy.

Lionel Aldridge had replaced Quinlan, but Jordan and Davis still anchored the defensive line, linebacker Ray Nitschke excelled at run stopping and pass coverage, while the secondary was led by defensive backs Herb Adderley and Willie Wood.

Their defensive line was anchored by Pro Bowl defensive tackle Bob Lilly, who excelled at pressuring quarterbacks and breaking up running plays.

A competition for women was introduced at the Olympic Games of 2000 in Sydney, Australia. The women have excelled in the 2 disciplines snatch and clean and jerk because these lifts entail hips and leg strength that women naturally have resulting is some significant milestones in women's weightlifting.

Although the two brothers differed in temperament — Jacob was introspective and Wilhelm outgoing ( although he often suffered from ill-health )— they shared a strong work ethic and excelled in their studies.

In 1923, Wright excelled in grade school and was made class valedictorian of Smith Robertson junior high school.

His childhood was described as over-protected, but when at school he excelled in sports, mathematics and was head prefect of his class.

However, it was in his twenty-seven original piano concerti that he excelled himself.

He was educated at Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain, where he excelled at academics and football.

Allende was a talented athlete in his youth, being a member of the Everton de Viña del Mar sports club ( named after the more famous English football club of the same name and which regularly competes at the highest level in Chilean football ), where he is said to have excelled at the long jump.

They described James as the embodiment of good monarchy with Mair's eulogy that James '... indeed excelled by far in virtue his father, grandfather and his great-grandfather nor will I give precedence over the first James to any of the Stewarts ' while Boece in similar vein calls James the ' maist vertuous Prince that evir was afoir his days '.

He particularly excelled in hurdling, and was probably the best hurdler in the world shortly after the war.

The daughter was named Smyrna and the mother boasted that her child excelled even Venus in beauty.

Epaminondas evidently excelled as a student, and was devoted to Lysis.

Epiphanes in manhood was remarkable as a passionate sportsman ; he excelled in athletic exercises and the chase.

He was a very skilful mathematician, geographer, and geometrician ; and in drawing, which he practised to the last, though greatly afflicted with Chiragra, few excelled him.

Franklin was educated at St Paul's Girls ' School and the North London Collegiate School where she excelled in science, Latin and sports.

Instead, Callimachus urged poets to " drive their wagons on untrodden fields ," rather than following in the well worn tracks of Homer, idealizing a form of poetry that was brief, yet carefully formed and worded, a style at which he excelled.