The phrase "athletic endowment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person's natural physical abilities or talents related to sports or physical activities.
Example: "His athletic endowment was evident from a young age, as he excelled in various sports without much training."
Alternatives: "physical prowess" or "sporting talent".
So did the athletic endowment.
It also has a $29 million athletic endowment.
The university has long been the envy of other college sports programs for its generous athletic endowment, which was valued at $500 million before the economic recession, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
It is pace and power, an athletic endowment that has in the past enabled Nigerians to fit comfortably in the physical style of the English league, or, as its current coach Stephen Keshi pioneered, to be sturdy and strong with Belgian clubs.
Seniors and graying baby boomers who have extended their athletic endowment in a white-collar sport with a conveniently adjustable set of values and explications would never suggest that Jordan stay home, and not ruin the storybook ending we wrote to his career.
Mulcahy, who earns $286,250 a year and received a five-year contract extension on Nov. 18, 2004, had raised the athletic department's endowment by $4 million and secured outside revenue of $24 million, according to the university.
The money was borrowed from the university's general endowment, and the athletic department is paying the interest.
Sloan's "Baylor 2012" plan calls for construction of new facilities, the addition of top scholars to the faculty, an improvement in the athletic program and a $2 billion endowment as he pushes the university to raise its standards.
The Ivy League does not award athletic scholarships, but led by endowment-rich members like Harvard, Yale and Princeton, the conference has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in additional need-based aid — with most of the universities all but eliminating student loans and essentially doubling the size of grants meant for middle-income families.
This is partly, of course, the consequence of the unfair advantage of physical endowment: she's tall and athletic-looking, and she has the sort of features that, well, command attention -- especially the eyes, which are huge, deep brown and startlingly alert.
Recipe for Success If I had to choose the single best element for athletic success besides innate physical and biomechanical endowments, it's cross training.
