College Players and Dorms

Usually schools keep dorms open for the athletes, not just just baseball.

Spring break is almost always a road trip week.  In the Northeast, teams go south for a week of games.

Spring break:  there was a process to request to stay in dorms, for any student, not just for athletes (I googled this and it seems quite common at many schools) - so the baseball team all put in these requests.  Good point about spring break trips, though.

Post-exam:  the school put the team up (i.e. paid) in dorms, but not the same rooms that they had all year.

@nycdad posted:

Usually schools keep dorms open for the athletes, not just just baseball.

Yep exactly, +1 on that.  Same with Basketball teams during portions of winter break etc

My son's team went on a spring break trip so the dorm was not an issue for spring break.  His team made it to the D3 College World Series this year.  The semester ended on May 7th but the team was still playing until June 4th.  Son was not on the travel roster but the team took any of the guys who wanted to go to every series at no cost - he elected to come home after the Regionals.  I moved him out of the dorm around the 25th of May.  We didn't have to pay any extra money for him to stay in the dorm.  He would have had to pay for food if he had used the dining hall but the team fed the guys lunch and dinner every day (again no additional cost to us.)   My son did say the assistant coach told the guys "I want to make this the most expensive season ever!"  His wish came true.

From my sons' experiences the dorms didn't close for the breaks. They WERE closed between semesters. I imagine your question here would apply for the winter sports (like hockey) that play games between semesters.

As for the end of spring semester (the year my son's team made NCAAs) they had to move into another dorm that combined athletes from sports that were still playing.

Playing for a northern team, my son is always playing down south during spring break so never an issue.  As for the end of the semester, they were allowed to stay in their dorms until the end of the regular season, but when they made the CWS Regionals, the freshman who were still playing were moved into the college apartments and the athletic department paid for their expenses.

In juco (frosh/soph) I don't know if they could have lived off campus, but the dorms are free. Plus, I wouldn't say that most Texas juco's are located in "garden spots". With my son entering D1, he rented a house with 3 other players (another juco transfer and two established seniors) and really enjoyed it (they're all still very tight). However, he did say that coming in as a junior and not experiencing the team connection of living in the dorms contributes to make transfer's outsiders initially (that and the possibility of taking somebody's spot).

They were open during spring break, as I recall, but closed before the baseball season ended. The upperclassmen were urged to share their off-campus spaces with the freshmen who were done at the dorm with a week or two of baseball yet to go.

All dorms stayed open over spring break. End of school, kids were moved to a dorm with all the kids still playing athletics.  The school paid.

Francis;

My meals were in the Girls Dorm and the kitchen always open. All the Big 10 Baseball players had jobs while going to School. My work was as a janitor in the Girls Dorm.

Bob

Thanks everyone

Son's spring break was always a week long road trip.  At the end of the semester they moved to a different dorm with football or basketball players who may already be there or staying all summer.  The dorm was open year round for any athletes who were on campus.

Start saving your vacation days now Franny.

@2022NYC posted:

Start saving your vacation days now Franny.

I hear ya. And I thought sneaking out of work to watch HS games was a challenge!

Francis,

buy stock in Greyhound

Bob

@Ripken Fan posted:

From my sons' experiences the dorms didn't close for the breaks. They WERE closed between semesters. I imagine your question here would apply for the winter sports (like hockey) that play games between semesters.

As for the end of spring semester (the year my son's team made NCAAs) they had to move into another dorm that combined athletes from sports that were still playing.

Exactly the scenario we had