Student athletes love the sports
they play but many complain about dropping grades due to lack of sleep,
attention or time spent in class. Athletes tend to be released early from
school when they have games and thus miss many lessons covered in class. Soon
these students fall behind and their grades take the beating.
“[I] never had time to study; I did my homework and went to bed. I was so tired I could barely function in class,” said water polo player, Hannah Carney.
Carney, along with many of the other water polo players, missed class once or twice a week due to games. Carney also had long water polo practices that made her very tired therefore giving her even less time to focus on her school work.
Many studies have shown that it is harder for student athletes to focus on school because they are so involved in their sports, putting as much effort into them as possible.
Carney has expressed this by saying, “I was really behind in photography and I could have been getting much better grades than what I have [now].”
In contrast to this there are many positive opinions about student athlete’s performances in school. Some researchers have found that athletics actually increase academic performance because the students must meet academic standards in order to practice and play in games.
“Sports take up a lot of your time,” said junior varsity football player, Gabe Crespin, “but they can help to because you’re doing something you like so it makes you work harder to stay on the team.”
Many athletes have a desire to excel in both their sport and school activities, so they take every measure possible to make sure they are successful in both.
“It takes me a lot of time to redo notes and understand the curriculum, but I am passing all my classes with good grades,” expressed varsity football player, Tristan Gasperian.
According to studies done at UC Davis, male athletes are statistically on academic probation more than female athletes and tend to have lower grade point averages overall. Although for some Carlmont sports this does not seem to be a problem because the coaches are very involved in helping their players be successful in school.
Water polo is an example of this, “Our coach does a great job of making sure school and grades come first,” junior varsity boy’s water polo player Max Dobson said happily when asked about his academics. On the other hand the girls water polo teams seem to be the exact opposite.
“Every day we have an hour before practice to do homework and when we need help we ask him and he helps us,” said junior varsity football player Osvaldo Nava about their coach Marco Aguilar, who is also a math teacher at Carlmont.
Other Carlmont athletes such as those involved in either volleyball or cross country have had little or no problems with their academics because they rarely miss any class time.
“[I] never had time to study; I did my homework and went to bed. I was so tired I could barely function in class,” said water polo player, Hannah Carney.
Carney, along with many of the other water polo players, missed class once or twice a week due to games. Carney also had long water polo practices that made her very tired therefore giving her even less time to focus on her school work.
Many studies have shown that it is harder for student athletes to focus on school because they are so involved in their sports, putting as much effort into them as possible.
Carney has expressed this by saying, “I was really behind in photography and I could have been getting much better grades than what I have [now].”
In contrast to this there are many positive opinions about student athlete’s performances in school. Some researchers have found that athletics actually increase academic performance because the students must meet academic standards in order to practice and play in games.
“Sports take up a lot of your time,” said junior varsity football player, Gabe Crespin, “but they can help to because you’re doing something you like so it makes you work harder to stay on the team.”
Many athletes have a desire to excel in both their sport and school activities, so they take every measure possible to make sure they are successful in both.
“It takes me a lot of time to redo notes and understand the curriculum, but I am passing all my classes with good grades,” expressed varsity football player, Tristan Gasperian.
According to studies done at UC Davis, male athletes are statistically on academic probation more than female athletes and tend to have lower grade point averages overall. Although for some Carlmont sports this does not seem to be a problem because the coaches are very involved in helping their players be successful in school.
Water polo is an example of this, “Our coach does a great job of making sure school and grades come first,” junior varsity boy’s water polo player Max Dobson said happily when asked about his academics. On the other hand the girls water polo teams seem to be the exact opposite.
“Every day we have an hour before practice to do homework and when we need help we ask him and he helps us,” said junior varsity football player Osvaldo Nava about their coach Marco Aguilar, who is also a math teacher at Carlmont.
Other Carlmont athletes such as those involved in either volleyball or cross country have had little or no problems with their academics because they rarely miss any class time.
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