Post 4 Struggle continues

Student athlete struggles continue even after your sport is done because you are never really done with your sport until summer hits, even then you have workouts you are expected to do. Unless you are lucky enough to play at your hometown college, most athletes live somewhere away from their family. Often times athletes who play at a high level and will have to move out of their house and to another state.  With colleges in every single state with athletic programs every where, there is no telling where you could get a recruitment call from.
 I am from California, I received calls from school in Texas, Alabama, and Massachusetts. These are places where I never thought I would go especially ending up in Kansas. Being home sick is a very serious thing, I know of some players who left and couldn’t make it because they couldn’t be that far away from home. The struggle of not being able to see your family waiting for you after the game is hard. For so long my father would be at every game and he was someone I could go to after every game to talk to and now being so far away from home he is not able to be at every game. Its hard to seem my teammates get to be greeted by their family after every game we play, but that comes with choosing to go to a college far away from my home state. I can honestly say that playing a college sports is 80% mental; you have to be able to take adversity and turn it into motivation.