gh School, said that we should expect to spend about four hours a night studying , and that does not include homework. Even if the athlete had only two hours of homework he would not get to bed until two oclock in the morning. Many students have jobs to support them because they do not have full scholarships. Jobs take even more time away from study. Chris Carter is juggling baseball, school and a job. He says that he had to cram classes back to back in order to make time for work before doing homework and studying. Last April, the NCAA released information from a study completed in 1999, that stated the average student athlete gets between six and seven hours of sleep a night compared to the recommended nine hours of sleep a night. Those two hours could be the difference between attentively listening and absorbing the material presented in class or trying to stay awake and absorbing only half the material presented. Obviously, these time consuming activities take away from needed sleep and make the student work harder.The sport probably takes the most time per day out of the three main time consuming activities. For baseball, an athlete must make a year long commitment to train and do whatever it takes to ready yourself for the season. This includes weight-lifting, which many colleges have early in the morning. Some start as early as six oclock in the morning. One might say this gets your day started early, but it is only depriving the athletes of more sleep. Vince Brown of the Foothill Knights baseball program, starts his team weight lifting at six oclock in the morning and says he likes to run his program similar to college programs. In addition to morning weight lifting, there are also afternoon practices that go from about three or four in the afternoon to six or seven at night.. This makes for quite a bit of training each day. The June issue of Baseball America stated that most college baseball programs average abou...
