Keeping up: time management for academic athletes
‘I came to coach basketball players, and you became students. I came to coach boys, and you become men.’ If you don’t know where you have heard this quote, it is from the movie ‘Coach Carter’, a well known movie you have most likely seen about student athletes. Coach Carter changed what it meant to be a student athlete by setting standards all his team must reach before they could play, ‘student athletes… student comes first.’ Coach Carter made it clear everyone needed to be on time otherwise there would be consequences, learning to manage your time is important if you want to succeed at school and on the sports field.
What is a student athlete
The definition of student athlete from wikipedia …show more content…
Being a student athlete is a lot more than those early morning trainings and sleepless nights, being an student athlete is wearing our school logo with pride while representing them in something we love. The hours of hard work is all worth it once we step out onto the field or court on game day and the feeling and sense of accomplishment when we get our results back from our tests that we stayed up all night studying for makes it all worth it. You create friendships with people who are as dedicated and hard working as you to achieve whilst sharing similar passions and values. We know that when we look back at our time at school we will remember the laughs with our teammates, the team building weekends, the tournaments and the pride in ourselves when we walk across the stage with a certificate in our hand for our efforts in …show more content…
Time management is important skill we need to have or learn quickly as it is the only way we are able to manage everything.
Here are a few tips from students i have interviewed at waihi college who are achieving on the field and in the classroom and some of my own ideas.
Eating the right food and drinking water. Eating the right types of food and eating enough food is important if you want to be able to make it through those long days when you have morning trainings are aren't getting home until 5pm. Make sure you take the time out of the day to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner and make sure you are always drinking water as dehydration is important for your fatigue and your ability to perform. A tip is to make your lunch and breakfast the night before you have morning training so in the morning you are not as rushed and forget it.
Planning ahead. Being organised is the key to managing your time. Writing up a week planner is a good start, where you can see when trainings are and when assessments are
‘I came to coach basketball players, and you became students. I came to coach boys, and you become men.’ If you don’t know where you have heard this quote, it is from the movie ‘Coach Carter’, a well known movie you have most likely seen about student athletes. Coach Carter changed what it meant to be a student athlete by setting standards all his team must reach before they could play, ‘student athletes… student comes first.’ Coach Carter made it clear everyone needed to be on time otherwise there would be consequences, learning to manage your time is important if you want to succeed at school and on the sports field.
What is a student athlete
The definition of student athlete from wikipedia …show more content…
Being a student athlete is a lot more than those early morning trainings and sleepless nights, being an student athlete is wearing our school logo with pride while representing them in something we love. The hours of hard work is all worth it once we step out onto the field or court on game day and the feeling and sense of accomplishment when we get our results back from our tests that we stayed up all night studying for makes it all worth it. You create friendships with people who are as dedicated and hard working as you to achieve whilst sharing similar passions and values. We know that when we look back at our time at school we will remember the laughs with our teammates, the team building weekends, the tournaments and the pride in ourselves when we walk across the stage with a certificate in our hand for our efforts in …show more content…
Time management is important skill we need to have or learn quickly as it is the only way we are able to manage everything.
Here are a few tips from students i have interviewed at waihi college who are achieving on the field and in the classroom and some of my own ideas.
Eating the right food and drinking water. Eating the right types of food and eating enough food is important if you want to be able to make it through those long days when you have morning trainings are aren't getting home until 5pm. Make sure you take the time out of the day to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner and make sure you are always drinking water as dehydration is important for your fatigue and your ability to perform. A tip is to make your lunch and breakfast the night before you have morning training so in the morning you are not as rushed and forget it.
Planning ahead. Being organised is the key to managing your time. Writing up a week planner is a good start, where you can see when trainings are and when assessments are