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THE BATTALION
Friday, September 28, 20
Friday, Septemb*
Student athletes manage time between sports, studk
By Matt Stellbauer
THE BATTALION
A normal college day for most stu
dents consists of getting up in the morn
ing or afternoon, going to class for a cou
ple of hours, coming
home to study and then
possibly going out for
the evening. For a stu
dent athlete, college life
is anything but that.
“My day starts at 5:30
in the morning,” said soph
omore golfer and journal
ism major Stephen Reed.
“That’s when I get up to go
to morning practice. That’s
the start of a really long
day for me.
“After getting up at
5:30 its practice at six.
After practicing for an
hour. I will go get cleaned
up and eat breakfast to pre
pare myself mentally for
classes,” Reed said.
For college athletes,
going to class and doing
schoolwork takes on a
whole new meaning
because it takes up so
much time in their busy
schedule.
“We have to study a
minimum of six hours a
week, but it takes so much
more than that,” said fresh
men business major and
runner on the track runner
Katie Cullen. “We have
tutors available to us for
some of the harder classes,
such as accounting, if we
so choose to take advan
tage of that option.”
Most of the athletes are required to keep
a certain grade point ratio (GPR) to play a
sport without fear of probation, hut most
athletes do not see the GPR requirement as
a problem. They like to keep their grades
above the minimums.
“ With all that we have to do during the
course of a day, we are forced to set priori
ties for ourselves,” Reed said. “We can
either choose to do our sport really well or
let our sport suffer and do really well in
school. So it sometimes becomes difficult to
find a medium for those two things, espe
cially when we travel.”
After morning practices, the athletes get
cleaned up, eat breakfast and then some go
to class, which is sometimes the most taxing
part of the day.
“1 have had some really bright athletes
GUY ROGERS • THE BATTALION
Christian Rodriguez. “You learn very quid
ly that it can either make you or break you
You also come to see that during your sea
son, there is very little time for social
Being an athlete on campus is all about you
priorities.”
So the classes are tough, hi
what about down time forth
athletes? It would seem
with a jam-packed day, thereii
not a lot of room for relaxatior
However, even the toughes
competitors need time to chill,
“When 1 am not studying,
practicing or sleeping, youca:
probably find me hanging oil
in the lobby of Cain Halljiis
shooting the breeze with ni)
fellow athletes,” Reed said.
Being an athlete brings th
art of studying to a whole ne«
level. W'hile on the road, thej
often find it hard to concentraie
“We are traveling to Merictj
next week, and I will be sur
prised if I get a whole loth
studying done.” Reed said
"That's where my tutor come'
in. They help me to stayonlof
of my studies when I am im
around to go to classes.”
Even with so many cor-
cerns, being an athlete isnotall
that bad. They are essentiall)
the ‘big men' on campus-
especially when the team doe-
real ly well, such as winning!
conference championship.
“Some days you are just!
regular student, but then there
are those days that you haphaz
ardly wear a football shirt or
say somebody recognizes
you,” Rodriguez said. “It
makes you feel almost like a
and I have had some pretty dense ones, so
as a professor I get to see the whole spec
trum,” said history professor David Snyder.
“ 1 have the utmost respect for these stu
dents. They go through so much more dur
ing the day than your average student. They
have to deal with studies as well as staying
on top of their game.”
It seems like athletes would be stressed
by game time. So what is the secret to keep
ing their heads on straight during the game
while knowing they have several hours of
homework ahead of them?
“It’s all about time management,” said
graduate student and football linebacker
celebrity of sorts. As for the pay-off.some
may have aspirations of going pro vbik
others are counting on their collegtefa-
tion to provide their future.
“1 am majoring in journalism,” Reed
said. “I would like to go pro, but if thatdoes-
n’t work out for me, 1 will have my college
education to fall back on. Either way Iwin."
For others, the pay off will come mucli
later, but it is the present that really makes
playing a sport worth while.
“The fact that I can go up to another atli-
lete and say ‘ You work hard, yeah, I work
hard too.' That’s what being a student athlete
is all about,” Cullen said.
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