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[quote=Anonymous]It's such a balancing act.  My Junior is in a rigorous courseload---plays a year-round Club sport, a Fall sport and runs track in spring in addition to Club sport.  Also, involved in 2 Clubs at school.  He had a summer job that was 25 hours per week.

I do not think the would have been able to keep his straight As if he had been playing his Club+HS sport this Fall with his Junior year schedule.  Even dropping one of them would have been hard with his schedule.  Unfortunately, he got an injury mid-September so he couldn't play. He likely won't be back until January.  He was severely bummed and little depressed without his sport outlet.  But, when I saw the amount of work he was doing for school this semester and still managing the straight As it was likely a blessing in disguise.  His friends that played for the HS team and Club team (in this sport you really have to do both) were so stressed out.

Now he has a handle on things and just playing Club in the spring should be very doable.

OP--it's such a balancing act.  Our kids have always known school comes first.  If grades drop, they will need to pull back on their sports/extracurriculars.  The forced schedule the sport brings was helpful in that there was procrastination because I always said if there was a big test or homework--do the work/studying and get it done before Club practice--because you aren't getting home at 9:45pm and starting on it then.  They get home at 3pm and start working on it.  On nights they have the school practice--they sometimes won't do Club practice and get home at 5:30pm and have the rest of the night.

It's learning about making sacrifices and balancing things which is an important life skill.  [/quote]

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