Squad Webinar 2

Hey, guys, I'm excited for our second webinar of squad.

Thats one is called mental and physical demands of college

athletics and academics.

So I'm going to kind of run through, um, basically

comparing your high school schedule.

Your time demands a different variables.

Um, you know that.

Go into your everyday schedule and then compare that to

what you can expect in college.

Um, go through kind of like a day in the

life we're gonna break down the hours from weekly to

daily on, and I'm gonna give an example of what

your daily life might look like.

And then I'm gonna give you three tips or thoughts

that I think can be helpful for you guys going

forward. So I know this might feel a little early

again. I think the point of this is to discuss

these things, you know, prior to you actually getting any

situations. And I don't ever think it's too early to

have these conversations.

You know, we'll probably talk about this multiple times throughout

the next couple of years.

34 years of your high school careers.

And so I think you know, the more prepared and

the more realistic you could be about your future and

what to expect.

Um, you know, the better you'll do when you actually

get into that situation.

So bear with me today.

I think I've got some good information for you.

And if you have any questions or if you want

to talk to me about anything, you know, I'm obviously

always here, but we'll go ahead and get started.

So the first thing here and I know this text

is a little small, but first thing here, I just

wanted to kind of break down and various simple no

kind of three things I think will change for you.

I'm going to college compared to what you're dealing with

now in high school.

So the first thing is less time in the classroom,

but more time studying.

And so you're given a lot more freedom in college.

You're gonna be in the class room, probably less, but

you're gonna be required to study a whole lot more.

Um, and then another side of that is obviously the

athletic side, which is gonna be spending a whole lot

more time on athletics.

So I know right now you're probably looking at ah,

high School schedule of somewhere between 7 30 and 3

82 83 I think it's different for everybody, but you

may be spending a lot more time will athletics after.

So right now you're looking at maybe two hours Max

after schools over for practice.

And I think two hours is literally the minimum that

you ever gonna spend on athletics in college.

In fact, I know a lot of practices tend to

be three hours long, sometimes 3.5 on.

And then you're you know you're doing lifting your shutting

film. I'm another different things.

And then also, you have a lot more freedom in

college. So right now, you may not have quite as

much freedom.

Um, but you have a lot more demands when you

get to college.

So you have to really, um, be able to manage

your time.

You have to really set your priorities, and we're gonna

talk about all of these things.

So the first thing I wanted to get to just

kind of a day in the life of a college

athlete, So I think this is pretty similar for Division

12 and three.

Okay, um, you may spend less time as a Division

three athlete, practicing and traveling.

But it's not gonna very quite that much.

There will be some differences.

I think it may be like media require media requirements,

rules, requirements and different things like that.

But as far as travel, I don't think there's a

huge variation between those things.

So let's just say so.

There's 100 68 hours in a week you're looking at

on average.

Okay, I division 12 or three.

June. Actually, these are numbers from the unsuitable A spending

about 34 hours on practice a week.

Um, that also includes strength film.

And then you also have your games.

Um, and then 38 a half hours on academics.

I honestly think that number is probably a little low.

Um, I think you're probably gonna spend more time on

academics when you see that number 80 down there.

The bottom it says 80 on sleep for your job.

Some people do also get a job when they're playing

Division One basketball division to basketball Division three basketball.

I just I don't know how many people do do

that. Um, but you're not gonna get 11 hours sleep

a night.

So I'm just honestly, just being realistic with you.

I'm not trying to overwhelm you, but that 80 hours

a week on sleep is probably a little unrealistic.

Um, 15.5 hours socialising.

Okay, so that's your average week.

So let's break that down into daily hours.

So obviously 24 hours a day, you're looking at around

five hours on practice competition, strength or film.

Like I said, probably three hour practices.

The practice environment is extremely intense.

You have to be focused.

You have to be ready to go.

So you know, you can have some off days, but

you're really looking at, um, you know, everybody's bringing it

every single day.

You're right.

And you know, everybody who's there loves the game of

basketball. It's an entirely different mindset than what you're looking

at in high school.

Um, and then a lot of times you're having to

arrive early for, you know, taping or maybe an injury

or something like that.

Um, and afterwards you could could have some strength stuff

that you're gonna be doing.

The strength coach or coach might want to be watching

film with you.

Film is a big piece of college athletics.

I know when I coached the color, it was we

brought in girls twice a week on and then, you

know, individually, twice a week to go through their game

and you'll help them visualize themselves see themselves.

And then additionally, we met almost before every practice to

watch ourselves as a team and then also watch, you

know, the teams that were preparing for us.

You spend a lot of time on film looking at

about five hours on academics, a day, maybe two hours.

Socialising. Um, again, I think it depends on how you

define socializing.

And then, like I said, this 11 hours on sleep

for your job.

Um, I'm not.

I don't think they're going to get in 11 hours.

In fact, I probably average maybe 56 hours on sleep.

So let's just kind of give you what it looks,

what it may look like as a day in the

life of a student athlete.

Okay, so this is also something I found on the

website. I think it's pretty realistic.

5 a.m. To 6 a.m. Your waking up eating breakfast

and getting ready for a day.

This says 68 AM Strength conditioning.

A lot of times, that's probably just about an hour

long. So from 6 to 7, you might have strength

conditioning, or let's say 6 30 to 7 30 strength

and conditioning.

So the remainder of that time you're looking at, you

know, taking a shower, getting ready on, then heading to

class, which may start somewhere between 8 30 and nine

o'clock. Um, class, you know, it just really depends.

It's different every semester some people don't have Plus, till,

you know, it may not start to 11 o'clock 10

o'clock in the morning.

So you may have a little hour break there after

you've done your morning workouts.

Um, but again, you're gonna be you're gonna have a

small window there if you do, and you probably are

gonna look at getting the class right after morning workouts

for the majority of the people.

Um, class could go anywhere until two o'clock.

Depends on if it's a Tuesday.

Wednesday. It could be done earlier someday.

So, again, that's all going to vary.

But like I said, you're gonna be spending a lot

more time studying than actually in the classroom.

So classes say class gets over at two.

You need to eat lunch.

You need to get ready.

Teoh. You know, go to practice.

That starts at three o'clock.

So or 2 30 I guess in this case, you

have to 30 practice, so you quickly grab some lunch.

You know, whenever you're break might be probably getting to

the athletic facility 45 minutes to an hour.

Early one.

Some coaches require you to be out, be stretched by

the time practice starts.

Some coaches require you, um, you know, to have eaten

a little bit of something or be be taped.

Or it might have something that requires you to get

there, you know, at least 45 minutes early to be

ready for practice.

So, you know, right now you've got practice in high

school, starts at three o'clock, you gets a lot from

a to 30 you get dressed, you go out and

shoot around for 15 minutes.

It's just really not the case in college, you have

a lot of other demands to be prepared for practice.

So practice again, lasting around 2.5 hours.

We practice with the team, and then after that, you

have obviously gonna take a shower and, um, probably dinner.

Division one.

You're going to see a lot of teams have nutritionist

high quality support staff around the team to help the

girls constantly be in the best physical mental shape that

they possibly can be.

And so I think you're gonna You'll see a lot

of nutritionists type stuff that the division one level where

they're helping the coach create meals for the teams to

eat every day.

And I think a butler redid this five days a

week. Um and so these were healthier meals that we

require the girls to go.

We called him training tables were required, the girls to

go eat together at train tables and they could go

anytime between 6 30 and 8 p.m. And the evenings

and make we made sure that they had a healthy

dinner. So that might be something that you're required to

do as well.

So after you've had dinner and maybe provided as a

training table, um, if not, then you know you're just

going to the cafeteria, grabbing some food and then, you

know you don't have a ton of time.

You've got to get to studying.

So as a freshman, a lot of schools, you know,

require that you do study tables in your studying with

your other freshmen teammates.

Just basically to help you with your transition to college,

making sure you stay on top of your academics, depending

upon the coach.

A lot of coaches might require you to do study

tables your whole freshman year.

It might require them based on your GP A.

You know, a lot of if you don't get obtained

a certain GPS, so let's say a three point.

Oh, this is just as an example you're required to

do study tables until you get that g p A

up above that on.

And that's really just their way to help ensure that

you're staying on top of your academics.

Um, as a freshman, I know a lot of schools

will do it if you if you obtain above the

3.0, you don't have to go to those study tables

and you're just study on your own at those study

table. Still, hunters tutors other people there to help you

with your academics.

So you're looking at maybe studying, you know, 34 hours

a night um And then you're done with your homework.

You know, some around 10 o'clock at 9 11 oclock

sometimes midnight.

If you have a big exam you're looking at, you

know, sometimes staying up all night, Um or, you know,

just constantly studying throughout the day, finding time, figuring out

a way to be prepared for your exams.

So it's really a challenge.

But I think this is a good, realistic depict depiction

of what may be a day in your life might

look like as a college athlete.

So there are some other required items that I didn't

list that coaches can require you to go to.

Academic meanings is one thing I know with certain coaches.

So each coach is typically assigned a group of three

or four kids and have to come in and meet

with their coach every week, sometimes every two weeks and

go over the exams.

They have coming up, how prepared they are for those

exams, what their grades look like.

Your coaches are constantly staying on top of those things,

and so you're not really disabled to fly by the

seat your pants and, um said Hey, go to Europe.

I have good grades and doing good there On top

of it, they know when you're having.

When you have exams, you know what you have coming

up and so they can expect kind of to know

when you're gonna be stressed when you have, you know

more on your plate than you typically would.

Uh, we talked a little bit about injury prevention.

Sometimes you and probably most of you will experience some

sort of injury that's going to require more than just

your come in, get taped.

You might need, you know, go in 30 minutes early

and do some stretching.

Do some rehab, um, with sports medicine staff.

So that's, you know, another variable sports psychology and nutritionists

are becoming bigger at the division one level, and I

think they're also kind of bleeding into the division two

in Division three level you're looking at, you know, sports

psychologists are helping mental health advocate for mental health, you

know it is overwhelming, and they're trying to facilitate those

conversations. So I know they're trying to have more mental

health professionals on campuses to help student athletes, and that's

a great resource for everybody.

Toe have, um I don't know that those were required.

But I think you know that it's obviously a resource

that can be there.

Some coaches do require them just to be sure you're

checking in.

Um, nutritionists.

Like I said, sometimes nutritionists will meet with an entire

team. Discuss.

You know, sometimes they do little presentations once a month

to help you figure out, you know, healthy snacking.

Because that's just an example.

Or I know we had Abdullah.

We had an instance where the nutritious actually took our

team. Grocery shopping helped him write, read labels, help him

swap out unhealthy things for healthier options.

So you have different things like that as well.

Um, hosting a prostate.

Expect that's a big one.

You might be required to stay on campus for a

weekend just to be there for April.

Perspective. Student athlete coming to campus who, you know might

go to a football game, and then you take them

out to dinner and then you show him around campus,

and then they stay the night.

Um, and you kind of have to host those prospects.

Social media is a big thing, you know.

Everybody has stuff on Twitter Instagram News day, so it

obviously takes time out of the student athletes days to

come in and answer questions, be on Instagram and different

things like that.

Squad Webinar 2

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