Being a Student-Athlete

Being a student athlete on any team in any school is a very difficult thing; take it from me. I have been on the Track and Field team at St. Francis College for the past two years, this will be my third. Over those two years I have learned a lot about managing time, making sacrifices, and basically having two jobs at the same time which are constantly getting in the way of each other.

That last part is the harshest reality of a student athletes life. Dealing with the fact that your day will go something like this... wake up early, breakfast, class, lift weights, lunch, drills, class, practice, dinner, homework, going to sleep early due to exhaustion, and repeat. Oh, and then there are the days where you have night class after practice. Those are the best days. Like wednesday night when I have this class. Dinner gets either postponed or eliminated depending on how I feel when I get home. Luckily, my weekends are relatively free until late January and February when the season starts and most of the weekend is spent in a different state or on the road to a different state. For now, aside from maybe a light practice on a saturday morning, weekends are mostly spent sleeping and recovering and getting ready for the next week.

Now thats all fine when your team is winning or when you are performing well at competitions, but imagine how frustrating it is when you lose, or when you are putting in all that work and not getting the results you feel you have earned!

All that said, I encourage everyone to support St. Francis College's athletic program and athletes. At least visit the official website and click around for a bit.