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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3965151, member: 199"] Any college sport has a 20 hr rule which includes games (3hrs mandated) but not travel time. The rules are pretty clear: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/20-Hour-Rule-Document.pdf[/URL] Most athletes attend one or two summer sessions which can account for up to 4 courses that do not need to be taken during the fall/spring semesters greatly reducing the 'in season' work load. They also have academic advisors and if needed tutors supplied by the AD and they and the advisor work with the professors to manage work around the road trips. Total road trips at Uconn WBB run between 13-15 per regular season plus post season - some other schools play OOC almost exclusively at home. I did theater in college and often spent significantly more than 20 hrs/per week on that - not as long as a season, but the same kind of time commitment. A lot of students have student jobs that can easily stretch to 20 hrs. Others have multiple commitments to various voluntary activities. And while in college a lot of students waste a lot more than 20 hrs a week in various unproductive ways! It gets down to time management and being efficient. College scholarship athletes tend to be very motivated and organized - the ones that aren't are either men's players killing time before turning pro, or potential drop outs like 40% of all US college students. [/QUOTE]