The Time College Softball Takes

[jonriv]

Looking for current and past college players/parents to give us all some insight of what the time requirements of being a college softball player are?

Div I teams can play around 80 games per year- depending how deep they go into the post season. Even Div III teams can have more than 40-50 games- the practices, the workouts etc...

I am sure that most HS parents/players really do not know the what it really takes. Would love to hear from those with the experience. All levels Div I, II, and III

Thanks

[CheckWriter]

DI - 5 hours per day 6 days per week.

[90066DAD]

The whole year?

[brewtusplease]

Our D1 - Fall is different. More individual work outs with defense, offense and weights. 5 days minimum a week. Probably 3 to 4 hours a day. Team practices before/during the 8 game fall scrimmages. After that, back to individual work through the winter. She came home for the winter break and worked out 5 days a week.

Spring - 6 days a week. Team workouts 3 hours. Then individual hitting/defense on top of that. 5 hours/day is a good number.

[Joe]

DI - 5 hours per day 6 days per week.

No thanks...

[whatever]

Well the five hours a day makes sense when you are getting paid to play ball and therefore it is your job. When I was in college, I went to school from 8:30 am - 11:30 am, then worked in an office downtown from noon - 5pm every day (with an hour commute each way) to help pay my way through school - so 7 hours of my day was work related.

Obviously, what IS different is these girls IN ADDITION are going away virtually every weekend come early winter/spring and playing games during the weeknights. I don't know how they do it and be successful students. They certainly have my admiration.

[Blind Squirrel]

DI - 5 hours per day 6 days per week.

When I was in college, I spent more time than that between time in the weight room, running and playing pickup basketball. The compensation? Fun.

Lard Ass Squirrel (with a vertical of about 1.5 inches )

[Battle]

Are there certain fields that students can't major in if they play softball? What are some of them. Are DII and DIII more lenient when it comes to this?
I read the DI posts here but what about DII and DIII when it comes to how much time they spend on softball and how much is allowed for school?

[jonriv]

At most Div III schools- academics come first- so all majors tend to be OK. My DD is a Finance major- they were just told to try to make it so they did not have classes interfering with practice time-

[NoNothin]

Are there certain fields that students can't major in if they play softball? What are some of them. Are DII and DIII more lenient when it comes to this?
I read the DI posts here but what about DII and DIII when it comes to how much time they spend on softball and how much is allowed for school?

Dental Hygiene is one that requires too much time to play with all of the clinical time etc required.