Can Athletes Juggle?

There are many, many athletes at South. Some of them even do two or three sports at once. How they do it?

But the real question is, can these athletes juggle sports and school?

Waylon Wright, freshman, has played baseball for 10 years. During baseball season, he spends an hour and a half practicing. But when its not baseball season, he doesn’t spend as much time.

Playing a sport has positively affected him, it gives him something else to think about. He’s gotten better at managing his time and becoming better at doing his homework while it baseball season. 

He always does his homework before practice or games.

“You do your work before you get to have fun,” Wright said.

Seiler Grubb, freshman, played tennis for nine years before playing volleyball which is her first year playing. When she has practice she spends at least an hour and a half, sometimes her practices get up to around the two and a half hour mark. 

“I’m not used to being somewhere else instead of being at home,” Grubb said.

She said it’s “tough” to do her homework because sometimes she forgets and she’s always busy. For her, it’s hard to do schoolwork while doing a sport because sometimes her games go late, but if  there’s an away game, then it takes even longer for her to get back to school then home for her to do homework. 

“I try to multitask while working out at home so I can stay fit and get my work done,” Grubb said.

She’s gotten worse at juggling school and sports because she’s “not used to going that late.” She tries to multi-task if possible.

Sydney Reynolds, freshman, danced for a year and did gymnastics for three years. She spent a couple of hours practicing then would go home and dance some more because it was fun for her. She would make up dance routines and then present them to her parents. 

“I saw my friends doing it one day and I was like hey that’s cool, I could have fun and get better have managing time. But I did fall on my head a lot,” Reynolds said.

She went to a private school, so they weren’t as strict and it didn’t really affect her school life. She didn’t ever have homework because “they never really gave it out.”

Doing sports helped her get better with time management, as she learned she needed to do homework before she could do her routines. She got her work done then practiced with her friends.

They each had their own way of getting their work done and still getting to have fun. Some didn’t get better at managing, some did. But in the end, they proved that athletes can indeed juggle.