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It’s tough to be a student-athlete

Tanner Conley

Staff Writer

They compete on the field, on the court and on the track. Day in and day out, they work to improve their craft through hours in the gym. Some call them jocks, ballers and runners, but they are just the same as most of the university community. They are students.

Many people associate the idea of athletics in college in somewhat simple terms. Shows like Blue Mountain State often romanticize sports in college as nothing more than playing a game all day and partying all night, when in reality the opposite is often true.