A variety of stressors may be encountered while trying to achieve a dual career in sports. Therefore, it is necessary for athletes to develop coping strategies to deal with stress. The purpose of this study was to identify dual career proactive coping strategies which lead to positive behavior toward realizing dual careers for athletes, and to develop guidelines for acquiring these strategies. In Study 1, the purpose of this study was to clarify coping strategies used in attaining a dual career. Six subjects were interviewed and analyzed qualitatively. In Study 2, the aim was to create a scale to measure “dual career proactive coping”. A survey was completed by 406 dual career college students. Factor analysis, t-test, and multiple regression analysis were performed. Study 1 revealed that subjects with dual careers used seven coping strategies. In particular, “proactive avoidance thinking” and “proactive avoidance behavior” were considered characteristic coping strategies for a dual career. In Study 2, as a result of exploratory factor analysis, a Dual career Proactive Coping Scale (:DPCS) for college student athletes was created with 23 factors, including four factors： As a result of examining whether there was a difference in the average score of each subscale due to the difference between the high and the low ability group and the degree of stress coping, results showed that the high ability group score was significantly higher for all four factors. As a result, it was shown that “resilient thinking” leads to high performance, and “relaxation of mind and body”, “resilient thinking”, and that “proactive avoidance” lead to high stress management. The results of this study suggest that efforts to acquire dual career proactive coping may affect the ability to perform and acquire stress coping abilities.