The phrase "ambitious athlete" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an athlete who has strong aspirations and goals in their sport or physical pursuits.
Example: "The ambitious athlete trained tirelessly every day, determined to break the world record."
Alternatives: "driven athlete" or "aspiring athlete".
By all accounts, he had been intelligent and ambitious, an athlete and an outdoorsman with a taste for travel and adventure.
But even through exit trials, pre-season training and friendlies and the first few games of a nascent Premiership campaign, it's already been quite the proverbial rollercoaster of unprecedented highs and anxiety inducing lows for this ambitious young athlete.
That might cause an outcry among ambitious female athletes; but this minor disadvantage would be more than outweighed by the fact that my half of the population could simply wash their hands of the whole thing, and not even bother to turn the television on.
"We could end up stopping ambitious young athletes from following their careers and worry them for no reason.
The Afghan women athletes I worked with at the sports clinics aren't much different than young women I have played with all over the world in that they are passionate about soccer, and it is easy to observe that they are all capable, strong, ambitious female athletes.
"The opportunity for self-promotion is stronger for the ambitious, accomplished student athlete than it is for almost anyone else in the admissions pool," they add.
Tapering presents a counterintuitive mental challenge because it involves directly rejecting the method of preparation drilled into us as students, athletes, and ambitious individuals in today's pressure-driven, outcome-oriented world.
"With the rush of vehicles came a stampede of Marathon runners representing athletic clubs ambitious to secure for their organizations the distinction of having been the first athlete to cross the bridge").
