The Life Of a College Football Athlete

The life of a college football athlete is one of the most complex things that go on behind closed doors  you would never know about unless you ask a college athlete. Talking from experience I played college football at Mount Ida College in Newton, MA. It was one of the best experiences of my life meeting all the people I did and everything as well as traveling. In this blog  I interviewed three  College athletes at various levels of the game asking how there life was during the season and after the season.

The First person I interviewed was a friend of mine named Khaneil Bruce, he is originally from Cambridge, MA and Plays football currently at University of New Heaven after Transferring from Nassau Community College in New York.  I played high school Football with Khaneil and we both graduated together in 2014. 

I asked Khaneil about how football season is for him and if it gets hectic, his answer was simple he says “it gets hectic if you let it”.   Also that it does get overwhelming when you think about it because he has to balance his academics , practices , games , and traveling all together which isn’t easy for any 20 year old.

            I then asked Khaneil about his time after football season, and if he gets bored, he told me not really because he still has workouts every morning. But he does have more times than he does during the season. Khaneil told me he does tend to miss the season when it’s done but then it just pushes him to work harder towards the next season.

Lastly I asked Khaneil what is the best part of being a college football athlete. Khaneil told me the people you meet is the best part of being an athlete , because those are the people you end of spending the most time with, and by the end of the season there more like family not just your teammates.

                        

Another person I interviewed about their live as a College Football Athlete is a good friend of mine named Randi Vines. Randi played football at the University of New Hampshire and is originally from Virginia.

When Asking Randi about his life during the season he says it wasn’t easy trying to adapt from high school to college because he had a lot more time in high school compared to college when you're busy all the time.  Randi also said after a while of having the “College Life “ and being and athlete and being a student it became a lot easier because he was managing his time better.

During the off-season for Randi said was similar to football season, his coach made sure that the athletes were not getting  in trouble during the off-season so they did a lot of things football related after being done with their student activities. But he says even with having all that stuff he still had way more time than he did during football season.

Lastly when asked about what his best experience was he says it was the atmosphere at the games and being surrounded by what he felt like was a family. One of the best things he says was being able to walk around campus and being able to talk to stop and talk to anyone about the game because everyone was a family at his university.

The Last person I interviewed about this topic is a very close friend of mine name Idris Drayton . Idris and I met at Mount Ida College my freshman year playing football. We both came in as freshman so we relate to a lot of the same things.

When asking Idris about his life during the season he says football was the hectic part as a freshman, it wasn’t the school work at all it was all the stuff revolving around football and how much time it took to get stuff done because of football.

Idris also told me when asked about the off- season that it was bittersweet, because he was happy he had more time on his hands but wished he was still out there playing what he loved and having fun with his teammates doing it. But it defiantly felt good to be out of class early and not having to worry about football and just being able to just hang out  after.

Lastly he says it was hard to choose what was the best part of his experience as football player but if he had to choose it would be practice, because that where he meet some great people and learned the most about himself outside of just being a football player. 

Link to the University of New Haven Football Program 
Link to the University of New Hampshire Football Program 
Link to the Mount Ida College Football Program