They have practice in the middle of the day? That is very odd, and seems like a waste of time especially for sports with staggered practice times like hockey. Plus games still have to be late afternoon/evening, right? Though I suppose all the kids use the time to study if they don’t do a real sport at school during that season. Most of the soccer kids don’t do a winter sport at our school, with the exception of a couple on thirds basketball. Conditioning is easy to pack in a couple days and use the rest of the time to study/get homework done so you can hit the outside practice later. It is crazy hectic but the motivated kids do it somehow. IME, the kids on track to play in college create their schedules to revolve around the sport, and just ditch the other stuff that does not fit. It is risky but the coaches mostly encourage it and mostly help to make it happen. Also, aren’t most of the kids who play outside sports day students?