Three Tips for Balancing School with Sports

It’s a common challenge I face every day: staying on top of my schoolwork and making progress in crew equal priorities. Balancing these two parts of my life were big hurdles when starting my eighth-grade year at Orinda Intermediate School in Orinda, Calif. I thought I was prepared to tackle schoolwork with the pressures of late-night crew practices, but I was wrong. I found myself doing homework the class period before it was due, finishing reports on the bus, and waking up at 4 a.m. to complete assignments that ultimately, still weren’t my best effort. None of these were good ...