Time Management For College Athletes - How To Manage Your Time Well

You have completed your high School, cleared your college entrance examination and selected the University of your choice to attend. Being an athlete you have the privilege of obtaining a scholarship.

The new college campus makes you very excited and nervous and hesitant to take the next step. First you meet your coach and the concerned person tells you to report for practice early next morning.

After meeting the coach you proceed straight to the class room. On the first day it was not so bad, only an introduction to the course and subject plan and not assignments and formal lectures.


On the next day you get up early to start practice, fully refreshed and all set to begin coaching. The coach gives a strenuous workout, but it is natural for any coach to give the beginner a tough time.

After completing your training you head to your dometry to get ready for the class. A shock awaited you when you stepped into your class room. The professor who seems very nice was a terrible nightmare. The professor asked the students to write an essay within 1500 words with small deadline, and you assumed you could complete it. The next class was worse.

After completing the class, you meet the other athletes on the field and make friends and everyone was busy discussing about the party that night and inviting each other. Of course to make an impression and to have their approval you oblige.

At the party the thought of the essay with the 1500 words keeps lingering in your mind. You think you still can handle the deadline which is not very short.

At the end of the party you retired to your dometry very tired from exhaustion of the day there is yet something else awaiting. Your roommate is celebrating another party in the room with loud music hindering you from studying or sleeping, making the whole room a total mess.

You wake up stressed and tired from the previous night. You land up late for practice on the field .It was the most terrible performance in you whole life time and added to that the thought of the 1500words essay comes back to your mind. The coach was very annoyed at you for the terrible performance and he insisted that you remain and clean up the locker room.

Finally after completing the cleaning of the locker room you rush to the first class of the day though late. As a punishment the Professor does not permit you into the classroom because you are late.

The terrible thing was that the professor was mentioning some hints regarding the essay to be written. You decide to fail will result in the cancellation of the scholarship.

There may be no way out but still this is very common for college athletes. Advanced time management skills are needed for college students Getting admitted in colleges is very easy. But the difficult part is trying to cope with the extra curricular activities without ignoring your studies.

Management of time for studies and co-curricular activities for college students is very difficult but for an athlete it is even more difficult because he has to undergo stressful training session and even cope up with his studies in order to get their scholarships.

Due to the new levels of competition, there is a sudden increase in the responsibility of college students. They have all started training harder. You could have been the best athlete in high school, but in college many athletes will beat your record. Hence you will have to study and train harder to keep fighting.

Some tips for management of time for college athletes:


Study time should be allotted in your schedule because it is not as easy as studying in high school. It is a lot harder in college due to limited time.

Speak to your professor about your time table and they might consider in shifting you to a different class with the same subject on different time.

By developing a good time management skills, you can train, play matches, study, socialize and attend to your personal life activities with enough time for each.