NCAA Athletes Need Time-Management Tools
NCAA Athletes Need Time-Management Tools
Nov 20, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Vancouver, B.C. – Yesterday’s USA Today cover story focused on NCAA athletes who were taking easier course loads in order to manage the demands of school and athletics.
Former University of Calgary athlete Christie Goode has a different way for athletes to play sports and take the courses they want: improved time management skills.
Goode’s website, homeworktree.com, takes a student’s assignments and deadlines and automatically creates an individualized semester homework plan.
The website breaks down assignments – term papers, readings and other projects – into manageable tasks and then creates a homework plan balanced over the semester. It even sends reminder emails to the student and offers other homework-planning and paper-writing tips and resources.
homeworktree.com is the brainchild of former coach, athlete and graduate student Christie Goode. After playing volleyball for SFU and then the University of Calgary, where she was captain and an Academic All-Canadian, Goode went on to coach in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference for three years.
The transition from high school to university is challenging for all students, and even more so for student-athletes. Not only do they have the usual stresses of harder classes, more responsibility and new friends, but they also have to adjust to more intense daily workouts and practices, and a busier competition schedule.
It’s a transition that Goode remembers well. “I was the top graduate in my high school,” she says, “but didn’t have the support or resources to adjust well to the increased academic and athletic demands of university – especially in the context of the increased social life of living in residence.” Goode ended up failing her Bio 101 class (despite winning the Biology Award in 12th grade), lost her full-ride academic scholarship, and almost lost her varsity eligibility.
“Years later I learned that setting up a homework plan really helps to decrease stress. It clearly identifies what work is coming down the pipe – not just deadlines, but the work involved to meet them – and what you need to do each week to maintain a fairly balanced workload.”
For more info:
Christie Goode
info@homeworktree.com
homeworktree.com/coaches
homeworktree.com/coaches/first-year-athlete
homeworktree.com/groupsales
homeworktree.com/media
