find out what course the jocks take to pass this requirement
at my university it happened to be Portuguese (i happened to take the class to get a useful 2nd language in addition to Spanish for my Latin American International Relations degree). 80 – 90% of my classes were jocks. Football, hockey, basketball, girls softball even.
Portuguese is waaaaay easier than Spanish and sounds cooler too. They just don’t speak it many places. But it sounds like you just want something easy so I’d recommend it. The grammar, conjugation, spelling, etc is easier than Spanish.