My DD is a student athlete. She has lots of friends who are not athletes. Her hall, which is a group that spends a lot of structured and unstructured time together, has no one else from her team and plenty of non-athletes. She also spends a lot of time with her team doing non-athletic fun activities.
We’ve been extremely impressed with the care and attention paid to the athlete by the trainers. Our daughter had never done any weight training and they did an incredible job working with her to make sure she safely developed an individualized plan to be her best physical self.
Our son was a recruited athlete at Midd. Haverford has a much better supervised and organized program for out of season athletes.