Friday, November 22, 2013
No Such Thing As An Offseason
Being a student athlete, you are practicing year round. I am on the softball team here at SRU and our season is in the spring. But our team has been practicing since the beginning of fall. During the fall we have two tournaments we participate in and then we just have practices. After fall ball is over we start hitting the gym by weight lifting and having individuals twice a week. When our season starts getting closer we have to practice inside because there is usually snow still on the ground but we get to go to Florida for spring break. After Florida we begin our season. Once our season is over we have summer workouts we need to do to stay in shape for next season. From reading what the softball team goes through each year every other colligate sport does something similar because there is no such thing as an offseason for college athletes. Every college athlete wants to be the best they can be to help their team win and with that means a lot of hard work and dedication.
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I completely understand this. Being on the track and field team here at Slippery Rock I know the feeling of going year round. All of the athletes here are training through the winter and summer months on breaks but also in the spring and fall when they might not being competing. In track we are given workouts and lifting for the summer and winter months. Then when we get back to school our preseason starts in late September and we go through May. It's completely worth the time and effort in the end but in order to achieve success there has to be a lot of work done.
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