S22 is already living this life, as is our family, because he’s too young to drive.
A normal week of training and competition includes 9.5 hours on the field, 2-4 hours in the gym and 10-13 hours of travel time(21.5-26.5 total hours per week). The last two weeks were anomalies because his team traveled a great distance by bus so he was gone from early Friday afternoon until very late Sunday night. Ironically, when he travels with the team we get to stream his game, but we, as parent, essentially get a free weekend to get other things done.
He/we can’t always vacation when and where we’d like. It requires very advanced planning to work around his 10+ month schedule.
If he were to make a D1 squad 3 years from now I’m confident he would be adequately equipped to acclimate to the training and travel requirements while maintaining his academic standards.
Once he gets to college I’ll have so much free time I may get a second job…