Multiple Sport Student Athlete

I have often wondered what it really took to be a multiple sport student athlete. I am one, but I never fully understood what all it really entailed until I really thought about it. I had to take a step back, and think about all the long hours spent driving back and forth, to all the hours spent working in the classroom to get my education. Time management and responsibility are two of the most important keys to being successful in the classroom and on the field or court. A person who wants to be successful with all the responsibilities being a multiple sport student athlete brings has to first know how to manage their time, then they have to stay organized and then have a good sense of with work ethic is. Failure in a sport cannot define what a person does in the other sport, and most importantly what they do in the classroom. …show more content…
The long practices after school, to the hours of homework after those three hour practices are not an easy thing to do. Regular students with no after school responsibility nine times out of ten go home and relax, or get their homework done. Athlete do not have that same responsibility, they have to manage their time to where they can eat, do their homework, shower, and get ready for bed all in a few hours. They have the responsibility to go to practice every single weekday and some weekend, along with games. They have to learn to find a way to fit all the sports, plus their schoolwork, plus their social lives into one. That is not an easy task to accomplish, but it is done by countless amounts of student athlete’s each and every