<p>Is there anyone that is pre-med and on a sports team? If so, do you have enough time to maintain good grades? How many hours a week do you commit to your team? And do you still have time for other ec activities (volunteer, research, etc)?</p>
<p>I was a pre-med student athlete last year, and I practiced 2 hours 5 times a week, with 4 extra 1 hr. 15 min. morning sessions. It was difficult, but since I didn't have much time I stayed pretty focused. I also wrote for the newspaper, served on SGA, and pledged a fraternity. I came out with a 3.84 overall GPA, with a 3.8 major GPA (biology). I also volunteered on Sundays for 3-4 hours at the local hospital. Since I was only a freshmen, I didn't really have the lab experience at this point to do research.</p>
<p>There's also several other pre-med students on my team (swimming), and most are at the top of their class. Actually now that I'm not pre-med anymore, I feel like I'm less focused in school. I switched out simply because I didn't want to be a doctor anymore.</p>
<p>We have a couple of athletes that I can think of who are pre-med or pre-physical therapy. All of them 4.0 and successful athletes as well. But then again we have the women's gymnastics Academic National Championship team at my school. Many of them are pre-physical therapy. It seems as if they are not in the gym working out, they have a book in their faces..</p>
<p>Scheduling can be hard, depending on the sport. I know some baseball players who have to have all of their classes before 12:00 during the spring semester, and it seems like this would make it hard/impossible to take the necessary labs.</p>
<p>Well, I'm a Pre-med student and so are one of my friends. We did both cross country together. It's difficult to do both at the same time when there's scheduling conflicts, meets to runs, hard workouts, and parties to attend. Not enough time to study :(. But overall we did fairly fine so far.</p>
<p>I know a huge track star at UF right now, and he's pre-med. The athletics department sets his schedule though, he's not allowed to take any science classes besides the core ones and has to major in philosophy to get the schedule to work. He can go to tutors just for athletes there, but he has to keep in top physical condition in order to keep this set up. It's definitely worth it for him though, since he could go to nationals this year, and UF is guaranteeing him admission into their medical school.</p>