In order to inquire some answers, we conducted a survey with 24 questions and held a few interviews. The survey involved different topics such as GPA, study habits, social life, sleep schedule, and other weekly schedule things. After the survey was completed we compared the results and found some intriguing trends. The interviews used similar questions but allowed for more anecdotal answers that helped us put faces and stories to the research. We also interviewed a student-athlete that attends a community college in order to widen the data and research possibilities. Our survey and interview questions can be found below:
Survey Questions
- What sport do you play?
- What is your current, GPA?
- On a scale from 1-10 (1 being very different and 10 is exactly the same), how similar was your high school academic success compared to your first quarter of college? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
- On average how many hours do you spend on school work each week?
- On average how many hours do you spend participating in your sport each week?
- What do your daily study habits look like?
- For questions, 6-11 rate how well the following things are going in your life, 1 being bad and 10 being great.
- Sleep: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
- Diet: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
- Social life: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
- Sports: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
- School: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
- For questions 12-22 answer either yes or no
- Is it hard to keep up in your classes?
- Are you apart of any clubs?
- Do you attend school events?
- Do you consider yourself to be stressed often?
- Do you have enough time to have regular meals?
- Do you feel pressured by your team obligations?
- Has a sports-related injury ever affected your academics?
- Do you make frequent visits to the library?
- Are office hours something you feel you need to attend in order to keep up with classes?
- Are you apart of any study groups?
- Do you think your school provided you help in figuring out how to balance being a student and an athlete?
- Do you use school any school resources in order to assist with your busy academic and athletic schedule? If so what are they?
- If there are any other comments you would like to make about being a first year student athlete provide them here:
Interview Questions
Interview questions:
- Does the school offer the academic program that interests you?
- What is the academic performance requirement to remain a student-athletes?
- What importance does the coaching staff place on academic success?
- Can you describe any difficulties that you had encountered in maintaining/balancing both your athletics and academic in Western?
