How should I tell my coach I want to quit a club/team

last spring I signed up for this class/club. The class fulfilled a requirement for my major and you have the option of taking it and joining a team afterwards. As you team you would get to travel around and compete about the subjects covered in this class, I know it sounds weird. It seemed interesting when I first signed up and it was helping me meet my major’s requirements. As time went on, however, joining the team seemed less like something I would want to do. I did well in the class and before I left for summer break the coach/teacher asked if I thought I would join the team and I said I would think about it. I just don’t think it would work for me though because you have to travel so much and that would conflict with my academics and other clubs I’m actually in, additionally Ill also be working to earn extra money. I took this class because I was a freshman and wanted to try something new. I feel weird not joining because the class was so small, so everyone knows everyone and about 95% of people probably go on to do the team. Should I just write my coach and email and explain to her that I’m grateful for the experience I had with her class and learned a lot, but I don’t feel I can return to participate on the team because of schedule of classes I need to take this term for my major and I also have a new job that could conflict with the team schedule and requires me to work weekends? Like I said before I was a freshman trying new things and this one didn’t click with me the way the other club Im in did. Did anyone else have the same issue of joining something in freshman year only not to like it and quit? How did you do it?

It’s really not a big deal- you never committed to the team in the first place. Just send a polite email saying thanks for the opportunity but that your it will interfere with your academic and work schedules.