<p>My son has played competitive hockey since he was 10. He will be a freshman engineering student in the fall, and is concerned about the time playing Club hockey will take away from his studies. I say play....you won't be studying all the time ( lol!!) and it is a great use of your free time. They probably travel 2 weekends per month and practice 3x per week.
What do you think??</p>
<p>It’s certainly doable if he’s good at managing his time. Will he be at a Division I league or just playing it in a more recreational sense? I had a number of friends playing football on a DIII team (actually went undefeated one season) while doing engineering, as well as a friend on crew, and a bunch of friends played IM sports.</p>
<p>The biggest difficulty could be travel, but if he’s ok with doing homework on the road then it shouldn’t be a problem.</p>
<p>Half my schools soccer team are in various engineering programs.</p>
<p>My tour guide at one school was an engineering major and she played three seasons of DIII varsity sports (was even all american in one of them).</p>
<p>I’m on the club water polo team at USC and I’m doing Computer Science. Granted I’m going into only my second year, but it can definitely be done, especially at the beginning, which in my opinion is where it really counts for meeting people and having fun with the college experience.</p>
<p>Thanks so much! Time menagement will definitely be an issue (he’s a procrastinator), but it will be an issues either way! And I hear the hockey team is pretty tight, so it will be a good group of friends!</p>
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<p>A parent honest about her child! How refreshing! If you’d listen to the other parents talking about their children on this board, you’d think that we’d be having a group of little Einsteins attending engineering schools all over the country in the fall!</p>
<p>I was a pretty big procrastinator in high school, and definitely have gotten better at it in college. I think the volume of schoolwork that they throw at you in engineering school wisened me up. Students find that it becomes really difficult to procrastinate and do well at the same time.</p>
<p>S has participated in his sport for almost 14 years. He is going to be a senior engineering student this fall. He also competes as a D1 athlete who practices six days a week for a good portion of the school year and travels frequently during his sport’s season. Over the years, he has developed good time management skills. However, he is also a procrastinator by nature but his sport keeps him focused and ‘on task’. In high school, if he did not have practice on a given day, a one hour assignment could take four hours. However, if he had practice, that one hour assignment took him less than one hour.</p>
<p>So…to answer your question…Yes, (depending on the individual) there can be time to do sports while being an engineering student.</p>
<p>(P.S. Although S is bright, he is far from an Einstein)</p>
<p>Do they offer time management courses to freshmen? They should!! This team is club level, but very competitive. I hope he plays, but must be careful he doesn’t play because I would miss it so much!</p>