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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD will be starting HS next year. She currently plays recreational basketball (winter) and lacrosse (spring). She does taekwondo year-round and has a strong interest in wanting to run track. I told her we wouldn't do rec league track and she had to wait for HS. Track meets take all day! Well, her local HS basketball team is highly competitive so I doubt she will make the team. That leaves lacrosse and track. They conflict in the spring so she will need to choose 1. I suspect she will pick track. Depending on how demanding track is she will have to make a decision about taekwondo.

My question is it looks like track meets every day from 3-6:30/7 pm and has a lot of meets, even in the week. [b]How does your HS student balance school and sports, especially if they take a few AP courses (I know freshman either take 1 or no AP classes, but I'm thinking long term). My child is smart but also has ADHD so it takes her longer to do school work than a neurotypical child so I'd love to hear from everyone but especially from people who have 2e kids with ADHD. [/b] I'm looking for their strategies. Study on way to games? Do homework in the mornings too? What?

To give you a sense of the type of classes she will need to take in HS, she is a math person. She wants to go to college for computer science so needs to take a decent amount of advanced math and science. She will take Algebra II Honors in 9th.

HS was so much easier in the 90s. I don't recall being overloaded and I played several sports. So I can't just reflect on my own experience to answer my own question.[/quote]

How?  By being smart, organized and efficient. No secrets involved.  Most kids in lots of AP classes in my DCs’ school have something going on every day after school and weekends (sports, band, MUN, robotics etc). 
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