How Football Changed My Life

My heart was pounding as the scoreboard counted down the last few seconds of the game. The buzzer sounded, BEEEEEP and a cheer erupted from the boys on the sideline. It was hard not to be excited about the win, but at the same time, I had to think about the homework sitting in my backpack. The unfinished homework and the lack of sleep were extremely disheartening. Most of the athletic trainers felt this way when we realized how much homework or studying we had to do after a long game or practice. Athletic training is a very time-consuming job, especially during fall football. Football has practice every day after school until around five thirty in the afternoon. In addition, to practice, sub-varsity games played on Thursday and varsity games

For instance, my sophomore year at Jersey Village I had worked a Thursday night game until nine and got home at nine thirty. I had a chemistry project due the next day that I should have started the day before it was assigned, but I was tired after practice and decided not to start it. Now I had to finish my chemistry project at an exceedingly late hour, and I had to give up two precious hours of sleep. I could have saved my sleep schedule had I started my project the night before it was due. If I had scheduled my time more wisely then I wouldn’t have been stressed out, tired, and in a rush. Another time in my sophomore year I chose to not complete my algebra homework that I knew was for a grade the next day because I was falling asleep. I set an alarm in hopes of waking up early to finish my homework, but I slept through the alarm. That meant I had to rush and try to answer each question when I got to school in the morning. I had gotten through most the questions that were assigned when I hit a road bump in my progress. I didn’t have the faintest idea how to answer a set of problems, or even how to begin them, but I didn’t have time to ask my teacher to explain the problems. Later on in the semester when we tested on the unit, I hit the same type of problem and struggled with answering it. I realized that if I had done my homework when I had the free time the night