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Alright. Welcome everybody to 90.9 the lion and this is your fight like a lion podcast. I’m Paige LeBleu and I’m in the studio today with several of our student athletes and with an administrator, Ms. Teresa Patti. We’re going to be talking about excellence in the classroom and really looking at the challenges and maybe some tips on how to really do well in academics and balancing academics and athletics.

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So to get started, I’m going to go to my right first and get you guys just to introduce yourselves, tell us your name, your sport, and yeah, a little bit about you.

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Hey, I’m Mia Martin. I play soccer here at Southeastern. I’m from Mandeville, Louisiana, and I’m a junior.

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I’m Carly Petty. I’m from Houston. I play beach volleyball here, and I’m also a junior.

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My name is Landon East. I am a sophomore and I play golf here at Southeastern.

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And I’m Theresa Patti. I am the assistant AD for academics for Southeastern.

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Yeah and if you don’t recognize the Theresa Patty, she’s mommy T. Affectionately known as mommy T to many of our student athletes. So let’s just begin talking a little bit about maybe I love that we have some juniors and we have a sophomore, no freshmen in here today but you know, kind of like your journey of coming in maybe as a freshman or coming in to Southeastern for the first time and what that adjustment was like in regard to balancing your new athletic schedule at a D1 school with school.

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I mean, definitely an adjustment just like going into college in general, everyone has to adjust, but then we have that extra level of adjustment with our sports and everything. I know me, for soccer, as soon we even get here early, we just hit the ground running. We just go, go, go, go, go. So there’s really even no time to adjust, so you just gotta kinda figure out how you go. But, I mean, I I love it here.

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Everyone was so supportive, so it really wasn’t the worst adjustment ever. Was pretty good.

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Yeah. I feel like for me, it wasn’t that hard of an adjustment besides, like, academics in college are obviously a lot harder in, like, courses and, like, balancing your time. In high school, I didn’t have to study for a single test. I think always studying for the first test and really looking at the syllabus. I know people don’t like to, but looking at the syllabus and just being mindful of when you have assignments due so that I can schedule around my assignments and my schedule for my sport.

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I kind of agree. I think time management is probably the most important thing as a student athlete, especially with academics. You’ve got to have time to study and to do all your work, especially with practice, workouts, you know, especially golf. We’re out there for three, three and a half hours, four hours a day, so, you know, it’s it’s important to manage your time wisely and get your assignments done, and I’d say coming from high school to college, I wouldn’t say it was that big of an adjustment for me. I’ve been lucky enough to, you know, be pretty smart, guess you could say, and not struggle too much in school, but I will say time management is probably the biggest adjustment for me for sure.

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Yeah. And I mean, managing your time while you also travel, so I’m looking at you, you’re talking about golf and I’m thinking, you guys are on the road a lot.

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So Yes, ma’am. We we do have to travel a good bit. We have ten hour van rides, seven hour van rides, six hour van rides in the fall and and in the spring, so it’s it’s a lot missing from Saturday to all the way till Tuesday night, you know, so it’s important to stay out do

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your schoolwork in the van?

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I do sometimes, you know, if it’s, like, last minute, and I have to, but I try not to let it get to that point. I try to get it all done before we get out there and get rolling, so it makes it a lot less stressful.

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I used to be so jealous of people who could do their score, like on the road, because I get carsick, so there was, that was not happening. That was not gonna happen for me, so, but I had some envy back in the day.

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I do mine on the road. I put my headphones in and I put white noise on. Even blue light glasses, as silly as it sounds, that helps with, like, staring at your computer for too long. And I think it’s better to, like, get it done. But, like, when I am on the road, I even like to get ahead on my work.

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So, like, that two hour drive, is two hours that I’m just playing on my phone. So, getting ahead on your work when you can, I think that’s what helps me?

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Yeah. We also have some pretty long bus rides. And sometimes I’m sitting

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on the bus and

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I’m like, homework is the last thing I want to do right now. But also, I usually don’t do things before. I don’t do them last minute, but I don’t do them too far ahead. So most of the time during the week, we’ll leave on a Thursday and if I have something due on Friday, I’ll be like, Okay, I’ll do it on Thursday on the bus. I have eight hours to do it.

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So in those eight hours, sometime I’ll do it.

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I love it. So okay, Miss Theresa, do these guys sound like your typical student athletes?

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Yeah, they don’t, Ms. Paige. I was you, I was gonna say we left up with three incredible student athletes because the transition from high school to college is not as easy for some as it has been for these three. So for any student entering college from high school, it’s very difficult transition because you’re going from a very teacher driven environment where the teacher is telling you, hey, you need to make sure that you’re doing these things and every day they’re reminding you and kind of guiding you through the process and how to study and what to prepare for. And then when you get to the college level, it’s a very student driven environment and you get the syllabus on the first day of class and it’s up to you to make sure that you are reading that and prepared for what the class is going to bring and to know what the schedule is and what is coming down a couple of weeks especially for our fall sports who like soccer like me and when they get here they are traveling immediately whenever they their season starts and they they get to to Southeastern.

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So it’s really difficult for a lot of students to make that transition and that’s what we tend we try to offer the support with what we do in academics for our student athletes because we want to help them make that transition from high school to college because it’s not even just about the academics, it’s all of the extra demands from your sport because when you’re playing sport at the D1 level there’s a lot more commitment that you have that goes along with that. It’s not just about going to practice, it’s about practice and treatment and community service and you know meeting with this person or that there’s so much that goes into it and most of our student athletes just really need a little help with prioritizing and the time management and so we are lucky enough to have an academic staff here at Southeastern that can kind of help them navigate that from their first semester all the way through as long as they need that.

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No and you know I love that you brought up the Sharp Center and I know that for a long time you were you were an advisor now you’re kind of like directing the center but you were an advisor for a long

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time What sports did you have? So the first, when I first started at Southeastern which was almost eight years ago now, I worked with football. So I had football, golf, and tennis and then just in the last two years I switched over. I was working with men and women’s basketball, golf and tennis, and track and field. And then just this semester, I have transitioned and I’m working with women’s softball, women’s soccer, golf, tennis, men and women’s basketball.

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So you’re doing Making

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the rounds, but it’s really exciting because you get to learn the needs of all of the different students. Yeah. And you know, really just kind of watch them grow and progress through their entire time as being a student athlete. It’s just really exciting to be a part of that.

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Yeah, I love that and you know and I think some students utilize the Sharp Center more than others and it’s just but it’s a they all have

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a certain amount of time right? On the sport and depending on the student some some students are required for study hall. We tend to require all of our freshmen to have study hall because we tell them guys it’s not a punishment. We never want you to feel like coming to study hall and getting the support is a punishment. We are here to help you and even if that just means checking in for a few minutes once a week just to see how things are going and if there’s anything that you need help with or something that you’re confused about and it could just be something simple about where do I go to get this textbook for the freshmen that are coming in.

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Then from that point on, it just depends on the needs of the students. But we have lots and lots of students. I tell you, I see Mia in study hall often and she is

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not required to be She’s in a wonderful student.

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So it just depends on the student and what their needs are but we love to be able to be a part of that and we love to see the students still come in when not required to be there.

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Yeah, y’all are just awesome over there. It’s honestly such a great environment. Even if you’re not going in to study, you need advice or you need to talk to someone, that group is awesome and they do so much for us. Thank you. I

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agree. I hear from lots of the students. They just feel a ton of support, like just across the board. Yeah, so you have a good crew over there.

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We have a wonderful staff. We are so lucky. I have Morgan Holmes who is our academic advisor for football. She’s currently out on maternity leave. We miss her.

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Morgan, come back soon. And then we have Madison Orteaga who is our newest academic advisor and she has just done a phenomenal job. And we have three incredible GAs, one who is actually one of our senior soccer girls, Hannah McCord, who has just done a phenomenal job and you know to see them build the relationships with our student athletes and see their support that they’ve given and it’s really wonderful when we can have a former student athlete that’s in that position because they can relate to them in ways that we can’t. You know, they they know exactly what you’re experiencing and what you’re going through. So it’s it’s been a really valuable asset to have over

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in the center

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I love that and I think that’s with you guys being here today to kind of like just pretend like you’re mentoring a freshman right now and what would be your, I heard you all saying kind of time management, are there any other tips that you think are important to just be successful as a student here?

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Personally, I think as an upperclassman, the one thing I would recommend, whether you’re a Type A or a Type B person, is to get a planner. You have to have a planner. And for me, what works best is every month, like, sitting down for an hour and writing, like, every practice time and, every assignment and then planning my my weeks from there. Like, you were talking about, like, you have to do treatment, like, you have to do extra things. And, like, I like to just, like, look at the holes in my calendar, like, when I can find time for that or, like, planning out, okay, if I do my assignment this day, I’ll have off this day, because you have to include yourself, too, and a little bit of your self time and sleep.

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So, I think what works best for me is writing down the things I have to do and then looking for the extra the holes in my schedule.

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So when you first started that, was it a little overwhelming to see that, oh, have to lift here and I have this and

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this and that there weren’t that many holes? Oh, it’s overwhelming. I’m very type A, so my calendar is by the thirty minutes.

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Is it color coded

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as well? Yeah.

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It is a little overwhelming and I can see how some people don’t even want to plan out their day because of how overwhelming it looks. But I think being able to see it, I can prepare myself for my day and set myself up to have a good day because as a student athlete, I think you just have to come to terms with the fact that your schedule is full every day. So, I think being able to look at it and prepare yourself is the best advice I have.

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Yeah, I agree. That’s really good. I’d say I’m like a B plus type person. Not necessarily type A, but not type B. I have a planner, but I don’t plan a month in advance.

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I’m usually a week to week type girl. So, I also do that, but one thing that I have definitely found is obviously with our super busy schedule, you don’t get much downtime. And like Ms. Said, prioritizing is super important. I know sometimes I’ll get home and I’ll be like, I don’t want to do my homework, or I want to just lay down and relax.

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But it’s just in those moments to have discipline to do your work over something else and then maybe later in the night you can have the time to yourself. It’s just like knowing, okay, this has to get done, so just get it done. And that helps in the long run because you’re not getting behind and you’re staying on top of things and not leaving things till last minute.

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And not doing your homework at home. That’s my biggest tip. Go to a coffee shop or study hall. The Sharp Center is so good. I’m not productive if I have the choice to lay in bed, so, like, putting yourself in a position to, like, get it done.

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Yeah. That’s definitely why I’m always in study hall because I can’t study at home.

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I agree with both of y’all. Think that’s awesome. But I one of my things is I’d say if you’re a freshman, especially a a student athlete, I’d say go to class. You have to attend class. I think that’s a big thing.

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You know, I feel like it’s really easy to skip and it can become a habit. But if you’re a student athlete and you’re already gonna be missing because you have tournaments or you have games and you have stuff like that, I think going to class and actually learning and taking notes and, you know, actually getting a good grasp of the content, I think that that goes a long way for sure.

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Agreed. So when you go to class, do you introduce yourself to your teacher?

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I’m not the type of person to introduce myself to a teacher, but I do also think I email back and forth with my teachers a lot. I think communication is a good thing to have with all your professors because just keeping them updated on what you’re doing, like for example, we have to email our teachers when we miss for events because where we don’t get points taken off. You know, just making sure that you’re transparent with them and being keep on communicating. Just let them know what’s going on is really helpful for sure.

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Yeah, think that’s really important. I know I hear coaches all the time saying, hey, you need to let your teachers know that, you know, when you’re gonna be on the road, etc.

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Just a couple of things that I came to me as listening to them topic. Carly said that being looking for the holes are like a lot of students don’t want to lay all of their commitments out because it can be so overwhelming. Was just telling one of my students that I was chatting with today, like avoidance is a coping mechanism for a lot of people, but it doesn’t change the things that we have to be committed to. So face that fear, right? And without that fear, we never have an opportunity to be brave.

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So we have to be brave, face all of our commitments, and then like Nia said, disciplined in the fact that we have to be as disciplined in our academics as we are in our sport for a lot of our athletes. And so that should be coming first because you cannot be a student athlete without being a student. And thank you for saying about going to class that is so important and making, having those relationships with your professors. If you’re not curating relationships with your professors, you can do better. You need those relationships.

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Yeah, for sure. And I, you know, the whole discipline thing. So do any of you ever use kind of like some behavioral things like, okay, if I do this, then I’ll treat myself with this?

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Yes, a little too much.

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So both the ladies are saying yes and smiling.

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I’d say I’d do the same, Okay, for

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so what’s your treat?

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I like sweet treats. A bad habit, sometimes it’s a bad habit, but if it helps me get things done, you know what, maybe it’s good.

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For me, I think this is very my generation, but social media consumes me and my attention span is so low. And so I have to, like, put my phone on do not disturb and I’m like, okay, I finished this. Like, I can have, like, a twenty minute break, go, like, watch my TV show or, like, watch my phone, which is bad because I should be able to not be on social media for longer. But that’s kind of how I reward myself. I’ll get some me time and do stuff that I want to do once my work is done.

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I’m extremely hard on myself, so I’m not gonna lie. Some of my stuff might be a little extreme, but, like, most of the time it’s stuff like, you know, you can’t get on your phone until you finish your homework or something like that. Feel like that or like you can’t go to the golf course until you finish your homework or stuff. Stuff like that is what I use personally to to kind of help me out, stay on top of stuff and get most of my work done.

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True confessions over there from the beginning. I’m really hard on myself, so, and I think, I think actually a lot of you guys that, you know, that make it to this level and that perform at such a high level do push yourselves, I mean, let’s be real, I don’t think a lot of you would get here.

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Yeah, you have to have discipline to be doing what we are doing, so

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Yeah, so that idea of I have to perform in the classroom at a certain level, right, in order to play my sport, and I have to perform at a certain level in my sport, has that been something that any of you have ever worried about or felt challenged with?

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Yes, absolutely. I guess, you know, you always want to perform your best, you know, in anything you do, so, you know, it looks good when your team has a high grade point average and stuff like that, you they give out all kinds of Academic All Americans and, you know, awards like that. So, you know, I think me personally, I’ve always been pretty adamant on having good grades and, you know, performing well in the classroom.

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I never thought about it from that perspective, but that’s really interesting. So that brings in another level of looking at the academic kind of rewards that are given out by the conference. And so, okay, that’s another motivator.

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I know a lot of people don’t know what they’re going to do, like in life for their career, but for me, I know I want to be a teacher and so I think that drives me, like, that passion drives me to, like, do my work and do my homework. And, like, I want to get an A in my classes because I want, like, to be the best I can be in my career. Although the GPA might not get looked at, I know that the education is helpful and it’s going to make me better in a lot of aspects in my future. I love that.

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Do you know what you’re going do already, Meagha? No,

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Oh my goodness. I have a big decision to make right now if I’m going to go to grad school, if I’m going go to law school, or if I there’s a lot. But really, for me, like you said, there’s a lot of pressure, I feel like, not only to perform on the field, or the quarter, wherever you’re performing, but also in the classroom. For me, I kind of like to take it as one or the other. Sometimes your grades might slip up, but it’s like, Okay, soccer’s going well, but school might not be going that well right now.

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Or it’s like, Okay, soccer might not be going that well, but it’s okay because my grades are good. So it’s about that balance, and when both of them are going good, life’s just great. Like to look at it like that. Sometimes it’s one or the other, you can’t really have everything.

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Do you guys plan your, Ms. Theresa might speak to this as well, do you kind of plan your harder classes when you know you are not in season? Oh yeah,

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of course, like Miss T and the academic center, they help a lot with that.

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That’s actually what we’re in the process of doing this week because we’re in the midst of priority registration. So the previous two weeks we’ve been meeting with student athlete after student athlete and just talking about what our schedules are going to look like for the spring and then you know we’re looking ahead to the fall because it’s really important for especially the teams that travel a lot you know to make sure that we’re putting them in the courses that we know that they can be successful in and if we know that you’re going to have a chemistry course that or a lab we don’t want to take that while you’re in season when you’re missing week after week after week after class. So we definitely are strategic in our plans and our

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long term

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plans. Sometimes we don’t have a choice, you know, depending on the major that we have to be in a hard lab or a hard math or science course while we’re in season, but we just we do the best that we can to balance that out with our student athletes while always moving them forward in their progression for their degree plan.

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Yeah, that’s so nice to have that help for you guys to kind of guide them. So you got in golf.

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It’s kind of hard for us honestly, excuse me, it’s yeah, we’re in season pretty much year round. We have, I know last year we had five tournaments in the fall and five in the spring, and this year we had four in the fall and we’ll have six in the spring. So, you know, we constantly keep on going, going, going. So you kinda just, you know, take the speed bumps head on as they come at you, so that’s kind of how we do it. We really just schedule what we need to do when we need to do it, so.

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Okay, so everybody’s talked about their major, do you have your major declared yet?

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So I was actually in mechanical engineering technology when I started, but now I’m in finance. I just switched to finance this past semester, so it’ll be interesting. I’ll be in a whole new set of classes next semester, so I’m excited for it.

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Okay, alright. You guys sound like driven and like you really kind of know what you’re looking ahead and kind of knowing what you want ahead in life.

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They’re pretty established in what their long term goals are, which are great, You know me and I had a long conversation the other day about what her future plans are and we were talking about so many students feel the pressure to have it completely figured out right now and we just really try to remind them that you don’t have to have life figured out right now. Just take it one day at a time and just the fact that you’re here and you’re working hard in school and you’re gonna have a degree, you’re going to have lots of options when you get out of here and everybody’s path can look a little differently if Mia does decide to go to law school. I mean it could be right after you know she graduates or she could have something in between and be there in a year or two. You don’t have to have it completely figured out and I think that’s really important for a lot of our student athletes and young adults just in general to remember that there’s always options especially if you’re willing to work hard and you’re disciplined and dedicated in the things that you decide to do.

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Yeah, that’s so true and I’ve seen people go to, you know, change careers and I am talking about careers that require a lot of education. I have seen people go to law school and then not like it and go to med school and then the reverse, you know, and it is just, they are still trying to figure it out and figure themselves out and so you can always just find what is going to be a fit for you. I think you are right because you guys do have that dedication and that work ethic.

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Yeah, I think that is one thing that, like, personally, obviously after I’ve been debating this and everything in my talks with Ms. T, I’ve kind of really taken a step back and been like, Okay, you know what, I’m lucky to even have all of these options. Sometimes as student athletes, our life is so busy and we’re doing so many things, we don’t get a chance to step back and be like, wow, we are so fortunate to be able to do all these things that so many people can’t do. So, it’s good. We are lucky to have options.

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So, we’re very blessed to have options. Although it’s hard to make those decisions, you know what? Like, we’re lucky to be making those decisions.

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I agree.

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Me too. I love it. So, I guess, like kind of parting thoughts if you were, you were just going, well, no, I don’t want to go there yet, because this is important, because I heard someone, maybe Carly it was you, who talked about making time for sleep, and you talked about your full schedule and that sometimes you don’t necessarily like, I know a lot of athletes that seriously will stay up all night to do the school work that they know they need to turn in because teachers have these hours, now that everything’s on the computer, it’s like this assignment is due by midnight or something, Theresa, you’re smiling and shaking your head, that makes me a little crazy because it almost encourages you guys, oh I can stamp and power through until really late and then turn this in, but if you do that over time, your sleep is so important to your success overall.

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Yeah, I think for me, because I’ve ran into that issue before, but for me, I have almost my working hours. Whenever I do have time in my schedule to do my homework, I try to do it before I eat dinner. That way I could eat dinner, have some downtime, reset, look at what else I need to do, finish any little things. But I like to do the bulk of my homework when I have time off in the middle of the day because it’s easy to take a nap or go do other things when you have only one hour. But for me, doing that and finishing my work before dinner time has helped me so much, especially just for my self care and giving myself time.

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So, my time is between seven and nine. I try not to have homework and have me time. When I’m not focusing on homework, can also focus on getting to sleep. I think that’s what helps me the

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most. I would love to do that. That’s the ideal day for me, but a lot of the times that’s just not how it happens. Sometimes I’m a procrastinator, so I will stay up and do things late. It takes me a lot of time to do my work.

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I have a lot of essays, obviously, in my criminal justice major, and I’m not the fastest writer, and I know that. So I’ll still give myself three or four hours to do an essay, but it might be three or four hours after 08:00. I struggle with that sometimes too, but I’ve found the importance just getting some more sleep, you know, sometimes honestly instead of like staying up all night cramming it’s better just get a good night’s rest and then take the test.

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Oh for sure, for for sure.

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I agree. I think sleep is really important because it just, if you don’t get enough sleep, it could ruin your whole day. I mean, like everything that you do is just, it could really take a toll on it if you’re not getting enough sleep. And I try to, I’m honestly, I’m not gonna lie, I’m a little bit of a procrastinator. I always tell people I work better under pressure, so, you know, I think I think the closer it gets to the due date, it kinda gives me more incentive to do my homework, which is a terrible outlook, but I I always end up getting it done, and I’ve made good grades, but that’s just how my brain works and that’s just how I work.

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I wouldn’t recommend it, but that’s just how I do things.

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I love that honesty over there and you know it’s and it really it’s a highlight that we all function and we work differently,

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right?

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I am hearing more of a night owl, I like to get my sleep at a decent hour, you know, I do the bulk of my work during the day, I mean we are all different, and so you do have to kind of take into account your individual differences and what works for you. I mean if procrastinating kind of helps you get things done, that’s good. If it stresses you out though all the time then maybe that’s yeah not so

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I was a procrastinator myself too so I was a work well under pressure kind of girl but what I find with a lot of this the students that we work with they stay up all night waiting to the last minute to get that 11:59 p. M. Deadline, you know, that work turned in. But then during the day, in between classes, they’re wanting to go take a nap or they’re sleeping during the night. So we work really hard to try to break that habit because if you can it would just be so much better for their, you know, emotional, physical well-being to stay awake during the day, work in between the classes, if you can even just sit down for thirty minutes and knock something out even if whatever small task and then get that done during the day.

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Then That way in the evenings you have your downtime because it is really important to have that and then to be able to sleep well. So we do encourage that for the students that are not you know just night owls by nature, know they’re actually just sleeping during the day in between classes and then that leads to other problems because they forget to set an alarm and then they might miss class. So we never want to develop those habits.

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Yeah, and also like for us there’s a whole another level for it. Like we may set up all night cramming and then we wake up the next day, take the test, go to practice, and then we’re not feeling too Then that affects other aspects. For soccer, we used to have 6AM practice. That was brutal. And I remember being like, Okay, no, I’m just not going to do this because I have practice at 6AM tomorrow.

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I’m just not going to be able to. But then there’s that other aspect that you have to think about too, like not only will this decision to put this off and procrastinate affect your school, affect your sleep, could affect your performance as well.

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Yeah, and I think you are talking about developing good habits and looking at your habits and looking at, you know, what do successful student athletes do, right? And I think that is what we are hearing from the three of you guys, like, hey, these are the things that we do, maybe these are some things to not do, but these are the things that work for us. You know Carly, when I was listening to you talk about and then I have my me time and it’s like that evening time where it’s just time to relax and wind down thinking as somebody who teaches people about stress management, that’s so beautiful, like if everyone could do that, right? That’s really lovely because it does take, I think a lot of people think, oh well I’m gonna brush my teeth and put them in my PJs and I’m just gonna sack out. Well, that’s not always the way it happens.

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We really do need wind down time, not W I N E, W I N D time to just, you know, kind of get relaxed and calm, and I think a lot of folks don’t give themselves that, so that’s really beautiful that you do that.

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Yeah, I think transitioning into almost like your new life from high school to being in college, I feel like this really is like a podcast to the freshmen because, like, starting those habits from when you’re a freshman, like, it’ll carry out, I think. Like, starting that when you’re a freshman and, like, really managing your time then, by the time you’re a junior like me, it’ll be more figured out and your habits will be better.

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And even if it’s not like when you’re a freshman, you start these habits, then you finally figure out, oh, maybe I have to change my habits. If you change them later and you find success there, then there’s that too. You can always change your routines and add a little bit more discipline here or there and help things out along the way.

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Yeah, and the beautiful thing is you have Ms. Teresa and you have the whole staff at the Sharp Center. They are really great about helping students to figure those things out. For the students out there that are just struggling and they can’t really wrap their head around like why am I having such a hard time, go in and talk to the folks at the Sharp Center.

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Absolutely, absolutely, we love, that’s one of our favorite parts about what we do is just really being able to mentor and guide our student athletes throughout the whole process and yes a lot of it is things about class and assignments and tutoring or whatever needs they have there, sometimes it’s just having someone outside of their sport to just talk to and give them maybe a fresh perspective because, know, they have their coaches that have these demands that they’ve placed on them and families that have placed demands so sometimes it’s just nice to have someone to talk to that’s unbiased and doesn’t have any other motive you know for them other than just helping them navigate and finding the best course for them.

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Yeah, so there’s your plug for the Sharp

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Center. I

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think we had on a podcast a plug for FCA and now we have a plug for the Sharp Center. Guys, if you had any last kind of like parting thoughts,

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what words of wisdom? Well, just a real quick Enjoy your time here because it goes by so quick, so even if you’re studying, you’re procrastinating, you’re staying up late, you’re going to bed, just enjoy it all because you’re not going to have it forever.

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I would say if you’re ever struggling, don’t be afraid to look for help in the Sharp Center and look up to upperclassmen that have already done it because I’m sure they struggled, too.

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We have a counseling center also. That is great. Ms. Page knows a lot about that. So that is always an option too.

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And I’ll just say try to enjoy yourself while you’re here. I think a lot of times, you know, people will get so caught up in school, so caught up in their sports, so caught up in in work. You know, I think it’s really important to do what makes you happy and find something that works for you. You know, something that works for somebody else might not work for you. Everybody’s different.

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So I think finding your recipe for success and making sure you’re having a good time and enjoying yourself and you’re happy and healthy is really important.

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I love that. I just can’t thank you guys enough for being here and sharing your words of wisdom. It’s been fun.

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It has been. It’s been having us.

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And. Thank you.

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Yeah. So, I guess we’re just going to leave with a with a big Lion Up.