Exhaustion: A New Game For Athletes
September 14, 2021
Choosing to play a sport in college means learning how to juggle every minute of one’s time. As EHS moves to a more college-like environment, athletes here are experiencing similar mandates on their schedules. The end game: exhaustion.
People have always complained that there are not enough hours in a day. Thus, something has to give. Sleep? Eating? Free time?
“Practice ends so late,” sophomore football player Darren Newson, states. “I don’t have time to do homework from feeling exhausted.” The mental ramifications are as evident as the physical ones. “I feel very stressed because I want good grades very badly but don’t want to be overwhelmed.”
Teammate Christian Khamkeuang, also a sophomore, agrees. “ I feel very tired by the end of the week,” the exhaustion evident in his voice. Although he is getting by, he wishes that there were better systems in place to help the players.
Colleges often offer study group times, tutoring, and even dinners together. The players also help hold each other accountable. Thus, as EHS moves further toward a college atmosphere, it needs to exhaust all possibilities to help athletes before they become too exhausted to play this game.
Ezequiel Ramirez • Sep 28, 2021 at 10:33 am
I agree with this being an athlete on the football team with Tre and Christian I to know how exhausting it can be after a practice or a game. And with homework or school stuff getting thrown in there with it all, I feel like a team study group somewhere in the week or all of us holding each other accountable for school would be a good thing, for any teams and any sports. To help us so that after a game or a practice we don’t have to go back and do homework all tired, we can already be set if we help out one another.