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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Student-Atheltes...Students First

With lacrosse practice, school work, family and everything else we have on going in our lives we are all extremely busy. We all need to find to accomplish everything we need too. We need to find time to practice all of our skills and hone them for our games and team practices while juggling demanding academic expectations as well. And while lacrosse is obviously very important we are all, Student-Athletes. Students first, so you must able to balance and manage your time. 


To start off know what needs to get done and when. Keep an agenda, calendar or sticky note system, what ever works for you to keep you organized. When it comes to school work procrastinating is the worst thing possible, why stress about a project for three weeks and then pull an all nighter when you can do 10 minutes every night and finish early. You will be less stressed and produce better school work. Be proactive and stay on top of your assignments.


Once you finish your school work you can once again focus on being an athlete. By laying out all of your assignments you can more easily see where you have free time to practice, whether its doing some lifting or playing wall ball. You can block off daily slots to practice. Like you school work it shouldn't all be done for 5 hours straight one day a week but rather 20 to 30 minutes a day every day. Although you may not have full schedules now time management is extremely important, especially with aspirations of playing high school and even college lacrosse. As the school work become more demanding so does the lacrosse, and then simply having enough time is your biggest enemy. So learn now how to make the most of your day.

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