Just another day

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Ah, the realities of the glamor that is college baseball...

...a great post all college parents can recognize and relate to!

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My daughter, working a fulltime job and taking college classes at night, moans regularly that her brother "doesn't have to work".

I've tried to explain it to her; now I just laugh....

Catcher09
Our family can definitely relate. These kids work their tail off, not just in Baseball but in all sports. That is the true definition of a student athlete.

Let us know what grade you and the Mrs get on that essay.

An athlete's schedule is pretty nuts. It's been discussed in the Illinois section about some crazy times.

Here's mine:
Up at 7 for school at 7:50. I live within a stone's throw of school.

Sit in class all day (last semester senior year, can you say boring!!!). Lift weights during 4th hour (45 minutes)

Get out at 2:45 and practice starts at 3:15 (dang underclassmen somehow got to choose our practice time ) Practice goes til 5:45 (2.5 hours). Go home and eat dinner (another nite of onion rings, potato bites, etc from the freezer) before heading off to this meeting or that one.

Come home around 9 to start homework. Typically in bed by midnight. Wake up and do it all again.

Tonight I happened to have an "easy" night. Which is why I'm still up as the clock on the screen reads 12:47AM. I slept from 7:30 til 10:30 this evening.

My typical day includes between 2-4 hours of working out. My baseball workouts are actually harder than my basketball practices were. My hardest was during football. Football I worked out anywhere between 3 hours on gameday to 5-6 hours during the week. Especially after spraining an ankle when I rehabbed every morning at 6:30AM and then lifted some and then 3 hours of practice followed by another hour at PT in the evening.

But no complaints here! I just hope to being able to continue working out 2-3 hours a day at least 5 days a week the rest of my life!

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Let us know what grade you and the Mrs get on that essay.

Thats funny, last year I wrote a current event paper for him - I got a 72 -

Hold Up. I was an English teacher for years. Do you know how many parent papers I have graded in my lifetime. Their grades are usually lower than if the student wrote the paper himself. You know we forget as we get older....ok what was I talking about? I keep forgetting

I don't remember.

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Ya' know... I think I have that memory disease... What's it called again?


Now consider the Academy Version of the above schedules... starts with 0530 reveille, except add to that when the AOC (same as an RA in a dorm, except he's a tough Captain or Major in the actual AF) comes around for SAMI's (Saturday AM Inspection) on your room, and one room in a Squadron (read floor)fails, and the entire group (120 of all classes) now has to scrub the grout in the bathrooms, make hospital corners, measure the distance between hangers in the closet, scrub all floors... and this past week, paint the baseboards in the rooms because of scuff marks... and miss classes for 3 days for last week's tourney on the road, and still be prepared for the 21 credits they're required to take, every quarter.

I keep saying I want to come back in a future life as one of my kids... but I'm not always sure.

cadDAD


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Dad, those guys at the service academies have got to have THE hardest schedules! I truly admire the Cadets at West Point and AFA and the Midshipmen at Annapolis, but especially the athletes at those schools. But, I still must say, GO ARMY!

Allaboutbaseball:
Huh? What is wrong with writing your son's essay? Heck, he should get to take advantage of superior genetics!

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Originally posted by AcademyDad:
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Ya' know... I think I have that memory disease... What's it called again?


Now consider the Academy Version of the above schedules... starts with 0530 reveille, except add to that when the AOC (same as an RA in a dorm, except he's a tough Captain or Major in the actual AF) comes around for SAMI's (Saturday AM Inspection) on your room, and one room in a Squadron (read floor)fails, and the entire group (120 of all classes) now has to scrub the grout in the bathrooms, make hospital corners, measure the distance between hangers in the closet, scrub all floors... and this past week, paint the baseboards in the rooms because of scuff marks... and miss classes for 3 days for last week's tourney on the road, and still be prepared for the 21 credits they're required to take, every quarter.

I keep saying I want to come back in a future life as one of my kids... but I'm not always sure.

cadDAD

Modern education amazes me. We do all this research on how these different techniques and strategies are the most wonderful ways to educate the kids. Make them never feel the effects of failure and they develop a good sense of self esteem. Yet everyday when I walk into my room I find kids who don't the most basic facts of history and our government. If I make them work on anything they give the absolute least amount of effort then can. Yet these kids will one day have to go into the real world and be productive. It sometimes scares me.

Then I think about the people in the service academies and the athletes who function successfully like in some of the posts here. These are young people who are challenged by someone or they challenge themselves. Whatever these people do in life they will be successful because they know how to WORK for it.

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Whatever these people do in life they will be successful because they know how to WORK for it.

Coach, I believe that as well. Probably 80% plus of the students dont do anything and still have trouble with school - I dont understand that

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and still be prepared for the 21 credits they're required to take, every quarter.

YIKES!!!

I remember my schedule in high school senior year.
5am wakeup
6am ap class
7am-1pm regular classes
1-3pm hw, a bite to eat
3-6pm or 4-7 practice or games
7-10pm earn some money doing various jobs
sleep and do it all over again.