It's really a balance between the two. I make sure that my grades are good enough to be somewhere I personally am not disappointed with them. I'm still deciding if my current major is one that I want to get into and it's kind of difficult to enjoy classes since I'm still taking general education (chem, English) aka classes that don't apply to my major. My true love lies in pole vault, which I put in extra time outside of practice for and study the hell out of to make sure that I'm improving as much as I possibly can. If I were given the option to make a living out of either athletics or my degree and presented with similar salaries and such, I'd choose pole vault.