Cleaning up for the team.

Last year, Penn State's coed varsity fencing team won its 10th national title. But as they do every year, the team will spend hours this fall scraping nacho cheese, peanut shells, and other gunk off the floor of the university's 107,000-seat football stadium. Like many Division I athletes who compete in sports other than the big moneymakers--football and basketball, with their multimillion-dollar TV deals--Penn State's fencers must work to raise money for their team. At other schools, softball players dean basketball arenas and swimmers work at stadiums during football games. Megan Luteran, a captain of Penn State's fencing team, says cleaning up after 107,000 football fans is "one of the grossest things I'll ever have to do--hopefully--in my life."

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