A typical day for a college athlete

[HuskyNan]

Coaches, players- your thoughts?

 

[Geew1992]

My daughter played D3. Although I don't think she was up for the strength and conditioning, her day was packed. It amazed me how she made the deans list almost every semester. She was also chosen student/athlete of the year.

 

[VaConnFan11]

This is from an actual college...

Typical Athlete Day @ Bridgeport College

A lot of people need to keep in mind that most students only have classes 2-3 days per week. A lot of classes are still virtual as well. You are limited on sport participation hours per week as well. I recall Geno saying a couple of times that they had off days because of sport participation limitations.

A freshman's typical day is going to be a different from a senior's typical day. It would be interesting to see Sarah's typical week compared to Paige's typical week. IMO, a "typical" week would be a better comparison than a "typical" day.

 

[Puppy Love]

My stepson played D3 football at a fairly competitive school. He was in a 6 year doctor of physical therapy program. Essentially, one bad grade and you are out. The program doesn’t care if you also play sports. He played football all four undergrad years and graduated both grad and undergrad with honors. It can be done, but time management is essential.

 

[Bone Dog]

Like @VaConnFan11 says, a week would be more useful than a day. This is not really a typical day. No 18-22 year old does this seven days a week for 10 months straight.

Don’t get me wrong: athletes have a much more packed schedule than other students. But even so there is more downtime than this snapshot suggests.

 

[Centerstream]

The "typical" day also doesn't include game days and away games. I'm guessing that those days are quite different.
But I did enjoy reading the OP, very interesting stuff.

 

[Fishy]

It is accurate.

My daughter’s day in season begins at 4:30 am and ends at about 9 pm.

She is studying overseas right now in a country that doesn’t believe in starting the day until 10 or 10:30 in the morning and she’s in heaven.

 

[Skeets]

I never had classes 5 days a week. Always left 1 day open. Athletes taking summer classes may have a lighter than average schedule during the fall/spring semesters.

 

[Kat]

You're leaving out "social media time" and "meet with sponsors/NIL providers."

 

[Moose]

I am a former D1 bball player from the early 00's, also a STEM major (with labs), and I didn't take summer courses because I was off-campus doing summer research for my STEM major. I don't know how super accurate that schedule is.

I don't think we ever got up at 5am*. Even when we had 8am practice, I think I was getting up at 6 or 6.30am, and not every year we practiced in the morning (I think we generally liked to have practice starting 3 or 4 pm). In season, practice was mostly 2-2.5 hrs (stretching was lead by the captains before practice starts, and you would need to tape before stretching). Lifting was reduced in-season (1-2 days/week), but the strength and conditioning coach might run some agility/plyometric activities within practice occassionally. Film is usually before and after games (before as part of the scouting report). At the time I was an athlete, there was a limit of 20 hours per week (all mandatory athletic activities) and 1 day completely off per week (perhaps these rules are gone now?).

Ironically, what we dreaded the most was winter intersession. No classes, but no one else was on campus, snow, cold dark, and 2-a-day workouts (so all that taping, warm-up, shower... do it twice!)


*well actually, failing to turn in your study hall sheet would earn you a 5am mile...