<p>How often/how long are your practices and how do you manage it with getting good grades in school?</p>
<p>you don't sleep. Other than that its basically impossible if you're at high levels in both, because they both take up too much time.</p>
<p>I'm not at a high level (at all), but our track practices are about two hours a day, and I get home around 4:30, spring we will have night practices twice a week from 4-6. What is the worst is the all day meets where you leave at five am and get back at 10 pm.</p>
<p>Wen you're really busy and know you can't afford to go to practice, just tell your coach that you can't make it.</p>
<p>I'm doing Track, and I get home around 4:30 as well.</p>
<p>You find room. At first school work would take me hours a night...then soccer came and I had to find room for both. Then working 25 hrs/week came. And then tutoring people on the side.
Point is.....you make room. Don't take away from what you want to do because you fear a lack of time in your schedule.</p>
<p>i run xc at a national level. i also have a 4.0 uw and am one of the top kids in my class (along with other ec's like volunteering, class president, etc.) its actually not as hard as people think it is. but xc is sort of different than other sports where you need to practice everyday. i usually run about 50-70 miles during the week in the summer to stay in top shape but during school, i just run about 20 miles a week. practice is about an hour and a half and we spend most of it just playing around. whenever we are running though, we sort of recite information we have to know for tests. its a great method of studying because i just seem to remember things better when someone else says it. maybe you could do that during your practice?</p>
<p>I knew a guy who could juggle and solve a Rubik's cube simultaneously.
I assume balancing sports with academics might work similarly.</p>
<p>(Learning to type with your feet opens up all sorts of new options.)</p>
<p>juggling and a rubik's cube?</p>
<p>thats amazing. i cant even see how it can be done. you should tape him doing it and put it on youtube :)</p>
<p>I balance sports with academics carefully.</p>
<p>hpa10: How are you a national caliber runner with 20mpw?</p>
<p>What school do you go to? I'm going to assume you made NTN, and that's what you mean by national.</p>
<p>Just like people said, you find time. I play sports all seasons and practice is everyday for two hours (for hockey it takes about four hours with driving time), and I usually get home during spring and fall at about 5 30 and in winter about 12 am (but I'm home before practice for a little, two). I have afterschool ECs a lot too, and I'm doing great in school. You really do just end up finding time for things and managing it. At least I did. I never really figured out a schedule or anything, just did all my homework when I had a free moment too. Winter of freshmen year was the only season I didn't have a sport in high school so far, and they was actually the trimester I did the worst in school. Go figure.</p>
<p>did you see where i said i run about 50 to 70 mpw during the summer? i train my hardest during this time and its enough to keep me in good shape during the season with just 20 mpw. however when i do run by myself during the school year, i usually keep a really fast pace and that just works for me. i go to a school in texas.</p>
<p>You minimize AIM/Facebook/Myspace/braindead time on weekends.</p>
<p>When I was on swimteam, I would make it a point to do my homework at meets. If you aren't like me and don't get a headache in the car while reading, try doing your homewok in the car as well. </p>
<p>Sports helps time management a lot, I think. I just couldn't deal with it because practice (Even for JV) was really intense at my school.</p>
<p>I swim in the mornings before school. I get up at 4 a.m. for a 4:30 practice. I usually get home around 6:50. If I need to extra studying time for a test or quiz, I do when I get home in the mornings (this means I look like a mess at school). I get home around 4:10 p.m. and go to bed at 8 p.m. I do homework for 50 minutes at a time and then take a 10 minute break. I also do homework the day it is assigned so if I do not finish, I have another day to complete it. I think you just need to be really organized and stick to a schedule when you play a sport and expect to get good grades.</p>
<p>I couldn't do academics without sports.
Like after a really hard lacrosse workout I just sit down and churn out the work... I don't know how. It just helps me concentrate.</p>
<p>I couldnt. not with the workload I have this year and other EC's
I used to do soccer--got home at 5:30 for practices and anywhere from 6-8 for games</p>
<p>trackies are worse. they seriously don't get home until 7-8 for practices everyday and they're meets are like all day long on weekends.
a couple of my guy friends do track and idk how the hell they do it.
then again their main ec's are just sports--soccer and track, so they don't have to worry too much about all the other stuff.</p>
<p>You just have to know whats important to you and your priorities. Once you make clear of whats the most important, leave the rest to determination ;D.</p>