Conflicts with Multiple-recruitability?

I heard (and read here on CC) that some majors aren’t allowed by coaches. That may be true at some schools, but at other schools engineering, pre-med, accounting are encouraged by coaches. If STEM majors weren’t allowed, some schools like Colorado School of Mines or MIT or Johns Hopkins would have no teams.

My daughter was in engineering and played a sport. As an athlete, she had priority in registering for classes, so she got a choice in sections, especially labs. Only once did she have a required course that conflicted with practice, and by then she was a senior and the coach was okay with her coming late to practice once a week (school took preference). She was at an engineering tech school, and if the coach had banned STEM majors she’d have had a very short bench!

I think your daughter can do it all if she wants to. Every school or coach may not allow it, but somewhere will. When looking for schools, check out the travel schedule for the team. Are they doing multiple away weekends per semester? That’s hard. Do they have teams they play against that are close so a meet may only be one day, not the whole weekend? It makes a huge difference.

There may also be running clubs that meet her need for a sport with a major that is time intensive like orchestra. My other daughter played club hockey and that allowed her to be on campus all day to go to classes or work, as club hockey ice time is late (late!) at night.

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