Spring sports cause a majority of kids and coaches to miss their schoolwork. Leaving early can feel like a win-win with the thrill of fresh air outside of school, but it can also nudge schedules making it stressful and time–consuming. This forces students and coaches to plan ahead.

“I know how to balance,” senior track athlete Antwanyia Pierce said. “If I’m going to leave for a meet I will talk to my teachers and ask what I need to do.”

If students know how to manage their time, it makes it easier for them to catch up. Likewise Pierce enjoys looking forward to leaving early for track. 

Coach Reid Bayliss prefers to have more time for school. 

“Either or is fine but I honestly think, my athletes would hate me for this,, but I wish we would just get right of out school,, it would make it less complicated for Mrs. [Marilyn] Bizelli in charge of finding substitute teachers,, but it would also allow students to learn for the rest of the day,” track coach Reid Bayliss said.

Not only does Bizelli have more work, but  Bayliss does too on his last block for A days.

Tennis athlete Aidan Hatfield enjoys it when they get to skip.

“It’s good we don’t have to go to school tomorrow at all, it’s nice,” Hatfield said. 

In addition Hatfield feels like it is not hard to make up for his work. When it comes down to it, student athletes have to be prepared.

“It makes it a little harder to do homework and stuff, it is a lot of fun though and it’s definitely worth it,” golf athlete Jacob Rogers said. “Home life isn’t that different,, I just get home later.”

Although Rogers believes leaving early makes work a little harder, he thinks golf is a good sport. Even with golf making work longer, Rogers thinks golf is worth anybody else doing.

Forney believes leaving school early sometimes makes it harder for him. 

“Some days I’ll leave at 6:30 a.m. and won’t get back to my house until 8 or 9 p.m. so its like 13 – 14 hour days and time to balance out do my grading and my schoolwork stuff, on top of that it’s sometimes hard to find the willpower in that,” baseball coach Austin Forney said. 

Forney feels that missing school on his plan period works more easier for him.

“I would rather leave early because it’s not like we leave early every single day at least for baseball, so I don’t think it’s as bad as if we’re missing all the time,” Forney said.