Some background: We live in Texas, where class rank is key to in-state college admissions. My oldest is in college now at the state flagship and my middle one is in public high school on track to go to our state flagship as well.
This question is about the youngest.
My daughter is a competitive gymnast. She is in middle school and she has reached the level where she trains over 20 hours per week. To remain competitive, her gym needs her to switch to the 28 hour/wk training option that requires homeschooling for next season (when she will be in 8th grade). This level of training will continue through high school.
She is also an academically advanced student – in all gifted classes, taking multiple high school credit classes in middle school, never scoring below and A on anything ever in her life, perfect standardized tests scores every year, etc. She wants to be an aerospace engineer.
My husband and I both work outside the home full time. The girls at her gym who do home school typically do an NCAA accredited online high school course after practice at the gym. It’s accreditation ensures collegiate eligibility for competition/scholarship purposes. This is not an academically rigorous program, though.
I am trying to figure out if it is possible to design a home-school program with high academic rigor for my daughter that provides the flexibility to allow her to train days and still travel for competitions every spring. Texas law is quite lenient on home-school requirements, so I am not worried about that. I am more worried about sacrificing her academics and making college admissions harder on her, or designing a program that NCAA does not recognize.
Has anyone had to undertake such a challenge?
I don’t want to make her give up her sport, but she also shouldn’t neglect her academics. What if she gets injured/burns out/isn’t good enough for collegiate gymnastics and she has also dropped the ball on academics through a subpar home-school program? Any thoughts or advice?
There are reportedly rigorous accredited online schools you could research. Stanford Online High School is one I have heard some buzz about. Good luck!
@Texasmomof3 I recommend creating an acct on the welltrainedmind forums and posting your question there. There are moms of competitive athletes with high academic standards who can answer your questions about the NCAA issue. It is a serious concern, so you need advice from people who have btdt. (Fwiw, the WTM forums are the best source I am aware of for high homeschooling standards.)
I would also recommend the HS2Coll yahoo group.
I am a high school senior in Texas and have been attending an accredited online high school for the past two years - Laurel Springs School. I am not an athlete, but I do know that the school is extremely athlete friendly with its NCAA-recognized courses. It is based out of California, and many of my peers are actors, gymnasts, tennis players, etc. Classes are extremely flexible, ranging from college prep, to honors, to AP. They also offer a Gifted Academy that offers more support from counselors. To give you an idea of the rigor of this curriculum, I was accepted into the engineering programs at Texas A&M-College Station, University of Texas at Austin, University of Houston, etc, and will be attending Rice University in the fall. Let me know if you have any questions about Laurel Springs. 
The rigorous high school honors/AP track for top colleges is probably harder than it was when you were that age. It may not be compatible with having a 28-hour per week training schedule on top of the academic workload.
I would consider how important athletics versus academics are to your family. If you are willing to be more flexible on the academic side in order to maximize her athletic potential, you could take “basic” academics for most subjects, and sprinkle in a couple honors or AP classes per year in areas of interest or academic strength. (An engineer needs lots of math!) Or, rather than doing a full load in high school, she could use the high school credits she earned in middle school to take fewer, but harder, classes per year to finish her diploma.