Have you ever had a teacher asking where your homework was the day it’s due? Have you ever had a teacher ask you why you failed a test? Has you answer ever been “I had practice” “I had to work concessions for the game” or “I had a game last night”? That’s the answer from many from student athletes to their teachers everyday. This happened to a 13-year-old 8th grade girl in her math class. Ally’s math teacher Mrs. Pierdy went around checking everyone’s paper, but when she got to Ally there was no paper on her desk. “Ally where is your homework, it’s due today.” “I know and im sorry but I didn’t get it done because I had a cross country meet and completely forgot about my homework because I was exhausted.” “Well Ally you shouldn’t let your sports interfere with your homework.” “Okay it won’t happen again I promise.” You may blame sports for not being able to study or get your homework done but is it really the sports fault or yours? Athletes often said, “that during their sports season they never have enough time to complete their work, because their main focus was on sports.” Says USA Today. “Team travel was also cited as a stress factor because of missed classes and assignments.” On Livestrong.com they also say that some students thrive when they have such a compact schedule, for example, senior field hockey player Leah Ferenc said “Most of my peers believe that they perform at a higher academic level while participating in their sport and have felt more organized
student-athlete is a lot of work because, for football they have to wake up every morning to do
College athletes put a lot of their time into the sport (43.3hours per week) and they still have school to worry about as well.
Athletes spend most of their free time practicing and playing in games. They miss quality time with family, which going a long time without seeing them is very hard on people, and I know it is for me. They all could just go home during the weekends, but they choose to stay at school and practice with their team because they dedicate their time to the sport,
The typical Division 1 athlete devotes a whopping 43.3 hours per week to his sport- 3.3 more hours than the average work week (Smith). In addition to this, the athletes have to deal with waking up far earlier than others to lift, followed by going to classes and ending the day with more practice. They are then expected to be able to perform academically the same as everyone else. Student athletes are also expected to hold themselves at a higher standard than others simply because they play a sport. Many coaches monitor the social media of the athletes to make sure they are not putting their athletic career at stake by going to college
If you really think about NCAA student athletes they have to do work on and off the field, Being a student athlete is pretty much a full time Job. Many Many athletes do indeed miss classes
Imagine that you are a full-time college athlete; your daily routine would entail an early wake up and a practice. After your morning practice, you have to go your classes for the day. Then, since you are crunched for time and do not have much time in the class room while on the road, you have a tutoring session. Lastly, you have another practice and a weight lifting session that could end at 10 o’clock or later at times. Players also have to work hard on their own time to keep their spot in the lineup. Athletes follow this schedule the whole year. With all of an athletes’ time being put toward their sports and studies, they do not have time to hold even a
The schedules that coaches are requiring their athletes to follow are rigorous to say the least: Wake up, morning practice, study as a team, classes, practice again, study time as a team, lift weights and then off to bed at a specific time. Where is there time to sit and watch Netflix? Where is there time to talk to fellow classmates? Are colleges and universities pushing their athletes too hard in order to make money instead of allowing them to balance school and participate as a student
This also allows for no free time to be able to relax. As we have learned student athletes are constantly putting in time and effort into their particular sport, they also have to go to class and study when outside of class. Student athletes are required to take a minimum of twelve credit hours per semester, but to graduate within four years you must take at least fifteen credit hours per semester. As you can see student athletes have a full schedule of not only athletics, but academics too. Although a lot of college athletes are on scholarship and getting their schooling paid for, they still won’t have any money to eat a
Many college athletes are deprived of their time and it can become very difficult for them to keep up with their studies. Being involved in a college sport is like having a full-time job on top of being a student in college. According to Chris Isidiore in the article, “Playing college sports: A long, tough job” football players spend many hours on their sport: Up until the season starts, the workload trails off to 50 to 60 hours a week. That eases to 40 to 50 hours a week once the season, and classes, begin.
Athletes are giving it there all both on the field and in the classroom. College athletes are brought to the school on scholarships to play sports. These athletes are giving it there all going back and forth from classes, to the weight room, to studying, and to practices. But they mostly spend a lot of time practicing rather than going to classes. ““These young men are laboring under very strict and arduous conditions, so they really are laborers in terms of the physical demands on them while there also trying to go to school and being required to go to school.” Says Robert McCormick (2011, Kenneth J. Cooper). What Robert means is that these students have a huge amount of work load on them while also being required to go to school at the same time. These athletes aren’t like every other students. Even before the school year starts, athletes have to come to schools weeks early. Having a summer off is what normal college students have
In reality, though, this is not the case. Many athletes, although not “required”, feel as though it is necessary to double or even triple the amount of time spent training and practicing because if they did not, they may not be able to keep their starting position or their amount of playing time on the team (Pope, Justin). Not only do the amount of hours determine their place on the team, but they can also negatively affect their studies.
Some athletes put more time in sports than college, and do so without any pay. In fact the author states that “Academic work for some athletes is secondary: top men’s basketball and football players spend 40 hours per week on their sports, easily. During
According to Peter Jacobs’s article "Here 's the Insane Amount of Time Student-Athletes Spend on Practice,” the NCAA restricts schools into only allowing athletes to train up to 20 hours a week; however, athletes estimate they spend, on average, 40 hours a week training on and off the field which is almost a full-time work week for a regular employee. This is possible because the 20-hour rule has its loopholes. According to the NCAA, game days count as three out of the 20 hours for the week, but it does not include when athletes have to leave school a day early to travel and pre-and post-game meetings. “Mandatory participation with the team such as Administrative meetings, weight-lifting, conditioning, film study, and activities incidental to participation, such as taping, visits to the trainer, and rehabilitation, do not count towards the 20-hour limit,” and they influence the time spent in their sport greatly (Jacobs). Coaches can require their players to attend “voluntary practices.” At these practices, the coach is not permitted be present, but the team still has to engage in a rigorous practice lead by the captains. Because athletes can spend almost 45 hours a week on their sport, they are at a major disadvantage with their peers with the quality of their studies and education received. Many student athletes struggle to handle the work for a full course load. Jacobs discovered that many university coaches work with counselors to
If that comes second, then we are to assume that academics takes up more than 43 percent of the week which leaves less than 14 percent, or 23.5 hours, for other areas such as social activities, sleep, and religious activities. That is not sufficient time in each week to fulfill these aspects and so brings up the problem of not having enough time in the week to devote to each important part of a person's college life. If there isn't enough time. Something has to go, or the time needs to be used more effectively. I have friends on the team and friends on other teams as well that seem to run into the same issue. They struggle juggling all of the things on their plate as an athlete as well as a student, and find that most of the time it comes at the detriment of the academics due to all of the persuasion from the coaches not to let it come from
Students spend hours doing it, teachers spend hours checking it. Homework is sometimes a burden to teachers and students but still it is necessary. Some people doubt homework's effectiveness, but teachers and researchers agree homework is essential. Homework helps students get better grades in school.