High School Years Research Paper

Sanchez: How were your high school years? Did practicing interfere wit your studies? Rodriguez: It did when it came to group assignments, it was hard for me. I couldn't just go to someone's home to do group projects, my schedule would not allow it. I was very busy all the time. I skated 7 days a week and the older I got the more practices I had to go to. School started at 7:30 am and I would wake up really early to practice before school. I would then go to school and practice again after school then I would go home and start on my homework. I was not like an A student but I was able to keep my grades in the B range. Skating was pretty much my life, it was always very hard for me when we had to do group assignments. I really never …show more content…
When I returned to class everyone wondered how I had gotten by being absent in class. Yet, I have to say that my school and my teachers were very supportive of my traveling and me doing sports. I have heard from some of my teammates that their teachers made it very difficult for them to be away. I have always, always had that support and I have been very lucky and fortunate to have that. I was allowed to miss school to do my training. I didn’t say they liked it but they still supported me. I think I had the most fun my senior year. There was a time period where I felt somewhat burned out. I started at such a young age I was doing two kinds of skating, inline and figure skating. Each one required different practices-and I was successful in both. Yet this meant that I had to practice everyday of the week and at times two or three times a day. So by the time I was 17 or 18 I was almost burned out and in my senior year I was in-between sports, so I was not training as much. Therefore, I was able to go out and have somewhat of a normal high school year. I got into speed skating after high school and became fully committed to that. I had a window of time between high school and college where I did not have to …show more content…
At that time my chosen major was physical therapy. I made to my sophomore year in college and I know when I complete my career as a professional athlete I will definitely go back to school. Yet being an elite athlete and going to college at the same time is a very difficult task I had to pick and choose. I realize that if I dedicated all my time to sports, my grades would suffer and the same hold true the other way around. The way I looked at it was that I had a small window of opportunity during my lifetime to be a top athlete and I have the rest of my life to go to school, so I choose to put school on hold and finish up my career as an