I found it very difficult especially at the beginning of the year. I had to come in from 27 hours away, and I did not know anybody here. I not only had to get myself situated as far as classes went, but also meet new people. This was hindered by meetings that I had to attend to learn the NCAA regulations and to sign papers dealing with all the rules of being an athlete. Not only was all this going on, but conditioning had already started. I found I had very little extra time to do what I wanted to do: meet people. Finding classes the first day was difficult because of the constant rain, but I eventually found all of them. I just was finding that there was a lot more weight on my shoulders than there ever had been before. Like I had to balance all the new tasks in my life as well as start new relationships. I also had just broken up with my g

The biggest change I noticed from the start was the amount of freedom I had. If I wanted to stay up until three in the morning, there was nobody here who was going to tell me otherwise. The only problem I was having was I wanted to stay up this late, and I had to lift every morning at seven AM. Each night I seemed to be getting less and less sleep than the night before. I started meeting people on my floor and we all would stay up just finding out about each other. I was finding as the weeks went on that it was becoming difficult to function. I was becoming extremely tired and the practices just kept getting harder and harder. Having many lecture classes, I found that nobody cared when I did not go to class. It seemed to be that this was the way for me to get more sleep, so I skipped a number of classes. This all proved to do nothing but hurt me in the end.

It is just an honor to be a part of a Division One school. Just because you are an athlete at a school, does not necessarily mean that you have a scholarship. There are generally three types of athletes. There are scholarship athletes, walk on's and also there is a non-scholarship athlete. The non-scholarship athlete means that they recruited you and you have a guaranteed spot on the team. I am a non-scholarship athlete. Walk on's have to prove themselves at practice and have to fight for a spot on the team. That is the main difference between the two.

ceive a lot of special attention. There are many coaches and trainers on staff to try to keep you as healthy as possible. Whenever you need anything, for instance if you get injured in any way, they work very hard at getting you back as soon as possible. They offer all different types of treatment for whatever injury you have and at no cost to the athlete. We also can receive free massages if we would like at the Rec. Center.

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