` : You're correct that playing in just one NFL game or driving in a single Indy 500 is deemed automatically notable; the records of the various leagues are considered evidence enough.  The amateur bar is slightly different: the sport must be at the highest level of play and there can be no corresponding professional league.  Given that, though, the same procedures apply.  If I can demonstrate that you competed on the Canadian Olympic curling team, you're notable, even if there's never been anything written about you.  However, playing football for Boston College doesn't cut it, since that is not the highest level of competition; I'd have to demonstrate you were otherwise notable ... for instance, you might be an All-American.  In any case, WP:V trumps WP:BIO; if there are multiple articles about you in reliable sources, you pass.  : I believe, by the bye, that the WP:ATHLETE notability standards are ridiculously low.  A footballer with a single cap for the Montserrat national team (such as it is), a scrub who played a single period for the NHL Montreal Maroons in 1927, they qualify, and that's silly.   `