Finally you made it through high school, passed your college entrance exams, and chose the university you are going to attend. A further great thing is that you have been given the chance to avail of scholarship for athletes. You are excited, and at the same time anxious upon entering the college campus, you have no idea what to do next. You first visit your coach and he or she told you that practice starts early in the morning.

Once visiting your coach, you now go on to class. As a review, the first day was not that bad, no coursework, no formal lectures, just plain introduction of the subject and course outline. Next day, you wake up early in the morning, invigorated and ready to train. The coach is giving you a hard time, and you thought that it is only normal for coaches to give newbie’s a hard time. After training, you went to your dorm room to get prepared for your class. You were in shock when you entered your first class, the professor who seemed so nice turned out to be you’re worst frightening. The professor gave each of the students a 1500 word essay with a short deadline, and you thought that you could manage. On the next class, the situation gets worse.

Later than finishing the class you then go to the field and made friends with the other athletes, everybody was talking about party on that night and invited you to go. Of course, since you want to make a feeling and seek their approval, you accepted. In the party, a thought occurred to you that you still have that 1500 word essay remaining in the back of your mind. Thinking that you can still manage and the deadline is not that short.

After the party, you’re exhausted and went to your dorm room, and as if all the things you experienced on that day wasn’t enough, your roommate was also having a small party in your dorm room, the music was noisy, you couldn’t study, you couldn’t sleep and the place was a complete mess. You then woke up tired and stressed out, you went to the practice field late, and your presentation was the worst performance in your entire life and adding to your poor performance was the thought of the 1500 word essay. The coach was annoyed with you because of your performance, he was giving you a hard time and telling you to stay and clean the locker room.

Finally, you finished cleaning the locker room and you go to your first class of the day rapidly but still, ended up late. Your professor, as punishment does not let you into the class because of your lateness. The worst thing is that the professor was giving tips on how to write about the essay. You thought about failing the class but that would mean your athlete scholarship would be cancelled.

All these may seem unfeasible but this position truly happens to college athletes. They should have a more advanced time management skills. Being admitted to college is quite easy. The hard part is successfully managing your time to achieve all the activities you involved with, and never neglecting your studies. Many college students find it hard to efficiently manage their time between studies and other extra-curricular and social activities. All these may seem easy for an athlete compared to how they are going to manage their time. They go through worrying trainings and could not afford to fail in their academics to enable them to keep competing and keeping their scholarship.

The unexpected increase in liability is very shocking for college students, particularly freshmen and college athletes. You just have to study harder and train harder because of the new level of rivalry. You may be the track star back in high school, but in college, many competitors can easily match your record in high school. You have to train harder and learn harder to keep competing in your sport.

Following are the some time management tips for college athletes:

One of the first things you should include in your time management planning is study time. You have almost certainly done it before back in high school, but it will be fairly different in college. It will be a lot harder because you have a limited time for studying.

As a college athlete, you may have disagreements on your match schedules and your classes and even exams. Colleges present tutors for college athletes to avoid missing their classes and school matches. Try to talk to your professor about your schedule and he or she might think transferring you to another class with the same subject on another time.

Once you expand effective time management skills, you will certainly have time for your trainings, matches, study time, socializing, and your individual life.