@SwimmingDad, one of my nephews made decisions based on baseball. (He was a pitcher, had some MLB draft interest). When he was injured and lost some of his scholarship $$ at the D1 school, he was not willing to stay at the school and take out loans. He also found out pretty quickly that the baseball team at the junior college level discouraged him from engineering because of the workload and labs, even though he had scores and grades indicating he was capable of managing it.
There are others who have posted here on CC over the years about how their sons/daughters found collegiate athletics very different and not to their liking. S2 considered a college sport and then realized how many opportunities he missed in HS because he was practicing and playing. Decided not to pursue it.
S1 found that math didn’t consume his every waking moment. There are plenty of student athletes at Chicago; I would say the OP’s D has a pretty good handle so far on how to balance the two.