<p>I think practice and training commitments are different for each sport. My sport requires 2.5 hour practices every schoolday with competitions taking up most of the weekends fall, winter and spring. I spend the summer weight training and crossfit 4 hours a day. I compete on a local, state and national level, former state champion, twice placing top 25 nationally. Some of my friends are in other varsity sports with practices every other day, for just the fall or spring. Their time commitment is manageable. I was so disappointed during an interview when one school sort of dismissed my athletic commitment and achievement and asked “well what else do you do with your free time during the school year” I felt like screaming I didn’t get that 95 GPA from sleeping! My routine of school, sport, dinner, homework consumes my time from 6am until 9-10pm mon-fri. So yea the schools say to show passion, just it evidently doesn’t count if it’s an Olympic sport. Sorry to vent on you guys, it’s just sometimes hard to understand this college selection process.</p>