In memory of Pattar I will bring up Grace Lyons. https://stormininnorman.com/2023/08...-lyons-is-big-12-scholar-athlete-of-the-year/
College and majors to stay away from??
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Would love to know how she did what she did. Did the coach allow her to miss practice or did the professor allow her to miss labs? Was she just so damn good the coach made exceptions?
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I always share my story on here because I think it helps (hopefully).
I was recruited to play SB for a highly competitive D3 program back in the day. I remember talking to the coach the summer before college and she asked me if I had picked a major yet (my recruiting story was very unlike how it goes today). I told her I picked nursing and then she proceeded to tell me that I could either stick with nursing or I could change my major if I ever wanted to play. I decided to stick with nursing and hung up my cleats. This was a D3 program. Not a P5 D1 school where SB is like a full-time job. This coach was used to winning and wanted that legacy to continue.
Clinicals are the one thing (unlike labs) that in most cases cannot be made up. Nursing students usually have to go to the hospital the day before when they get their patient assignment so they can work on a care plan for the next day. The clinical instructor HAS to be at the hospital with the students so it’s not an easy thing just to reschedule. You are also there for almost a whole shift, so an 8 hour day - more than once a week by junior year. My one clinical was the evening shift - so we were at the hospital from 3p - 11p.
I don’t know how I could have done it if I played ball. It was a lot of work and a lot of studying. I’m not saying it can’t be done - but the trend I see is players choose a “health science” major as an undergrad and then go into a second BSN or BS to MSN program after they graduate to become an RN. It’s a very expensive path to take if you do it that way, even if you get almost a full-ride as an undergrad.
I was recruited to play SB for a highly competitive D3 program back in the day. I remember talking to the coach the summer before college and she asked me if I had picked a major yet (my recruiting story was very unlike how it goes today). I told her I picked nursing and then she proceeded to tell me that I could either stick with nursing or I could change my major if I ever wanted to play. I decided to stick with nursing and hung up my cleats. This was a D3 program. Not a P5 D1 school where SB is like a full-time job. This coach was used to winning and wanted that legacy to continue.
Clinicals are the one thing (unlike labs) that in most cases cannot be made up. Nursing students usually have to go to the hospital the day before when they get their patient assignment so they can work on a care plan for the next day. The clinical instructor HAS to be at the hospital with the students so it’s not an easy thing just to reschedule. You are also there for almost a whole shift, so an 8 hour day - more than once a week by junior year. My one clinical was the evening shift - so we were at the hospital from 3p - 11p.
I don’t know how I could have done it if I played ball. It was a lot of work and a lot of studying. I’m not saying it can’t be done - but the trend I see is players choose a “health science” major as an undergrad and then go into a second BSN or BS to MSN program after they graduate to become an RN. It’s a very expensive path to take if you do it that way, even if you get almost a full-ride as an undergrad.
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Less rigorous and/or simply some majors are a major that have a larger area of useful application.
Large percentage select these type of Majors because they do not specifically know exactly what they want to do.
Yet do know that example~having something like a business major can cover a lot of employment opportunities.
Good thing is majority of college athletic programs are overseeing academic eligibility and have built-in systems to help the athletes with things like tutors.
Grace Lyons, SS at Oklahoma majored in biomedical engineering. The announcers never stopped talking about it.
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could be an added pressure.
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I think Engineering is doable, you would have to take a 75% load then either an extra year or summer. I only had a few labs.
Weather it is financially beneficial to play softball add a year or do a coop and add a semester I do not know.
Weather it is financially beneficial to play softball add a year or do a coop and add a semester I do not know.
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Just to add on to my earlier post - the issue with nursing too is the course sequencing. Most nursing courses are only offered once per year so if you miss it, you may not be able to progress to the next course/clinical which can set you back a year. Also certain pre-reqs must be taken in a timely fashion in order to move on.
Nursing programs only admit so many student due to clinical planning so if you skip a semester or a clinical - you might not have a guaranteed spot for the next semester/year due to the amount of students in the next class coming up.
Nursing programs only admit so many student due to clinical planning so if you skip a semester or a clinical - you might not have a guaranteed spot for the next semester/year due to the amount of students in the next class coming up.
When I was swimming we had practice at 6:30 AM and 3:30 PM - but the men’s team had a bunch of engineers - so they added an 11-1 practice for the swimmers that had labs late in the afternoon on M and W. I was the only female engineering major (but another pre-med girl was going to join too)- so I was going to swim with the men’s lunch workout (but then I ended up getting surgery- so it became a non-issue). I just did extra training room and strength at that time.
So the coaches tried to make it work back then. This was a mid-major school in a conference where most of our meets were within a 3 hour drive. We never got on a plane other than training trips and conference championships. I remember feeling exhausted for 2 years straight and transferred after my sophomore year and had a blast playing club water polo.
