Introduction: Self-perception is one of psychological concepts related to sports. It refers to the way in which people come to understand their own attitudes and beliefs without certain judgment or any comparison with others.
Methodology: This is a descriptive-correctional study. The statistical population consisted of all male and female students participating in the national sport Olympiad of Farhangian University. According to the Morgan table, a total of 200 male and 160 female students were enrolled as the sample. They were equally selected among the individual and team sports. Data were collected using two standard questionnaires: Marsh et al. (2010) Physical Self-Description Questionnaire and Pham and Taylor (1999) Academic Performance Questionnaire. The information of the participants was taken at the end of the games through the tournament tables and registrar's sheets. Pearson correlation was employed for the hypothesis testing.
Results: Sport performance had a negative, significant relationship with Academic Performance of students participating in individual sports (r=-0.38), team sports (r=-0.36) and all sports (r=-0.43). Sport Performance also had a negative, significant relationship with physical self-perception of students participating in individual sports (r=-0.31), team sports (r=-0.40) and all sports (r=-0.39).
Discussion: Since the relationship between the sporting performance and physical self-perception was independent from the sports and individual or team sports, student athletes are recommended to improve their sporting performance and self-esteem by getting more exercise and practicing more for the physical strengthening regardless of the sports. They are also advised to regularly participate in various sports because of the positive effect of sporting programs on academic performance.