What is Finny's work ethic like in A Separate Peace?

Finny is the Devon school's star athlete. If we're speaking about his work ethic as an athlete and as a socialite among his peers, Finny's at the top of his game, no pun intended. He breaks the pool lap record without alerting the school. He convinces Gene to go on an illicit trip to the beach one afternoon. He invents a game called blitzball which becomes popular among the upper-middle boys during the school's summer session. Later in the novel, he successfully organizes a carnival at the Devon school during the winter session. If we're speaking about his scholastic record, however, Finny falls short. Gene considers himself the school's star student, and the jealousy he experiences in the novel actually stems from his thought process that Finny is purposefully tearing him away from his studies so that Gene loses his status as the school's star student while Finny remains the star athlete. Gene's envy arises out of the prospect of their inequality.