From being a student athlete from my 4-year duration at high school, sports have had a negative effect on my school life. The factors from sports that I've had to deal with are physical stress, mental hardships and time away from school. These factors are the things that I have noticed the most that differentiate me from non-athlete students. Playing on a high level hockey team, I am on the ice 4-5 times a week, and have off ice training 2-3 times a week. The amount of time training and practicing has a physical effect on my body. As being an elite athlete, your expected to constantly be building strength and endurance to be able to perform and succeed at your sport. This ties into my school like because after hard workouts and long games, the next day can be a struggle. It can be really hard to wake up for my morning classes because I get so tired . My legs feel like cement from the muscle fibres being all swollen and such trying to recover; so sitting down in those awful plastic chairs all day feels really great. Just kidding, it doesn't feel great at all. Being so tired and sore in the morning makes me unmotivated to even go to class, forget actually doing work. Especially when I have late games and don't get home until 1:30 a.m. Getting myself up in the morning can be brutal. .
Not only does the physical aspect come into play to effect my school life, but mentally I can get exhausted from exerting so much energy and not being able to catch up on sleep that I've missed . In class it can be hard to stay awake sometimes and I get tired very quickly and easily in class. There's been times that I've fallen asleep for 30 minutes and missed the lesson. This is a negative because I now have to catch up in what I just missed from class mates and get confused quite easily. An example of why I get so tired was last Monday, my team had a game in Cambridge at 9:00 pm. We didn't finish until 11:00pm and I ended up getting home at 1:15am.
