<p>How do you juggle sports and academics?
Like most schools, I have to come home everyday at about 5 p.m. or even 7 p.m. if I take sports. I'm taking all honors classes and from what I heard, I have really hard teachers....
Any help?</p>
<p>In high school my son was a 2 sport athlete (winter and spring sports) and played his winter sport as in the fall on a club team. He took honors/AP classes.</p>
<p>He found that he had to make efficient use of any free time he had during the day, so he spent time in the library during the school day. He also had to learn to plan ahead. He knew if he had an away game the night before a big test/project that he likely would not be home until 10pm, so he did most of the preparation in the days before.</p>
<p>You need to be organized and use your time wisely, but it is possible to do and do well</p>
<p>It's definitely hard, but it's doable. </p>
<p>Time management is a beautiful thing. Get a planner if you don't already have one-this will be your best friend. Write down all of your big tests, games, etc. so that you can plan accordingly.</p>
<p>I played soccer and softball during frosh and soph years with 5 Honors and 1 AP class both years. Soccer was worse because practice ends at 6 and games could go until 8, but Softball practice ended at 5 and games went till 7ish at the most.<br>
but yeah....late nights, do stuff in class, etc. </p>
<p>but I'm taking 5 APs and 1 Honors this year and I'm not playing sports. I just can't do it. Plus I want to take some art classes outside of school.</p>
<p>Do as I say, not as I do.</p>
<p>learn time management.</p>
<p>seriously, i need to. I play 2 sports on top of a bunch of clubs and than AP/honor classes. THIS SHOULD BE FUN =) lol</p>
<p>you just have to realize that if you work harder now, it will pay off later.</p>
<p>i'm in a volleyball club that practices 3 nights a week 75 miles from my house. i carpool so to adjust to the other girl's practices we leave right after school and get home around 11:30. </p>
<p>i love volleyball and i can't imagine giving it up but school is important to me as well. i try to use whatever time i have to get the work done. like momof2sons said, using the library during school is great. you wouldn't have this option but i also do some work during the car ride and while i'm waiting for the other girls' practices to be done. Planning ahead is huge, if I have a project due in the next week, I will work harder on the weekend so that I don't have to worry about it late at night.</p>
<p>Good luck with your sports, juggling is tough but if you really dedicate youself to both school & sports, you'll be fine.</p>
<p>I play football (Practice goes from 3:00 until about 6:30) and ski (practice from 3-8), along with taking 2 AP and 2 Honors classes. The most important thing is to have a schedule and stick with it. As soon as you know what all the homework is, plan out the order in which you will do it, when you will take breaks, and when you will eat/sleep. It also helps to get assignments done in class or at lunch right after you get them.</p>
<p>if your busy from sports and clubs, basically you have less time to finish your homework, thus procrastinating. just study and do well in school, in the end you have a 2000+ sat and great gpa and rank. studying is your first priorty. unless your stupid and have like 5 clubs and sports.</p>
<p>Time management. Do some of it during class, lunch, etc. Definitely don't procrastinate.</p>
<p>get some work done on bus rides especially when you have to travel 4-5 hours to get to the place you are playing at.</p>
<p>Thanks soo much guys.
You have no idea how much all that encouraged me >.<</p>
<p>Time managment is key.</p>
<p>Strangely, my grades go down when my sport isn't in season. Guess I get in the habit of having a lot of free time and thinking that i can procrastinate.</p>
<p>^ Haha same with me man. I had all A's first quarter and once sports ended in November, I began slacking and got couple B's for second quarter.</p>
<p>Same here! My grades actually got better when I started playing tennis for my school. I guess you learn to organize your time and you kind of force yourself to study etc. So much better than having hours with nothing to do. This year I'm going to be struggling AP classes, a part time job, and tennis in the spring. Wish me luck ;).</p>
<p>I hate my school, because we're forced to have a sport every season. This translates into finishing school at 3:00 PM, then having sports from 3:30 to 6:30. We're a top ten private school, too, so our homework isn't exactly easy.</p>
<p>theonenonlynat good luck!</p>
<p>well...that was some consolation >.< Hopefully I'll do well....</p>
<p>Unless your getting a scholarship for sports focus on academics</p>
<p>it's hard but for me it's a very short time. Since at my school golf is like a 7-week sport, I have less stress during the rest of the year. I usually get back home between either 6:00-9:00 p.m. on certain days.</p>
<p>I also have required sports in my school, so I get home at about 5:35 on non-game days, later on game days (about once/twice a week). I have to do 3 different sports a year (one trimester each), so I don't have a "break time" during the school year. While I am often really short on time (wake up at 6:00, get home at 5:35, practice over 45 min of piano, do chores, do basic stuff like shower and dinner, plus hours of hw, sometimes work, and trying to be in bed before 10:30), I find that doing sports each day makes my concentration much much better, so I get my other stuff done faster with better quality. Last year, there was time in school that I could get my hw done, but they took that time out of the schedule this year, so we'll see how that goes. But once you get in the swing of things, it's not that hard.</p>
<p>Although it does not help if you are a procrastinator. Ya gotta get rid of that habit if you're planning on juggling sports and rigorous academics.</p>
<p>As everyone has said, Time Management. And now that I am in college, I cannot stress it enough.</p>
<p>I think it will also help if you review your notes before and after class (like right before and right after. Like, you sit down in class, the teacher is taking roll, you are reviewing your notes. Class ends. You go to lunch, review your notes, then eat your food or something). It will make it so that you don't feel like you should study. You can just go home and do your homework and then do whatever you normally do.</p>