San Dimas Seniors leave an incredible impact on San Dimas as they begin their new lives playing college sports.
High school sports are all about having fun and breaking records set many years ago. While playing high school sports, you meet some of your best friends, have some of the best practices, and learn. In college, you do the same but at a completely different level.
Being a student athlete is very hard. Athletes have to learn how to balance school, time management, sports, and extracurricular activities while maintaining a good GPA. Most athletes have done this before, so going into college and maintaining all these skills won’t be hard for them.
As San Dimas Athletes go on to college, continuing their athletic career. Their goal is to become the best and play as a team. Some athletes are going far away, and some are going close. No matter the distance, the level of play and competition stays the same. Senior Mia Guerrero says, “ I feel really excited to get to continue something I’m so passionate about at Hawaii.”
Being an athlete is all about dedication and commitment, and as long as you have that, you are golden. Yes, committing to a college to play sports for four more years is a big deal, but committing to a college to start a new life and succeed later on is even bigger. Athletes have chosen a path they believe will make them the most successful throughout their lives. Senior Faith Kearns says, “ I believe playing a sport in college is a privilege, and a lot of athletes don’t continue their athletic career outside of high school. I’m blessed to continue my Athletic care career for the next four years at APU.” 
Choosing a college is the hardest decision of most teenagers’ lives. An even harder decision is whether to go to college to get a degree or to play sports. At the college level, it’s completely different from the younger self level or the high school level. You are learning to become an adult, and while maintaining your grades to get the degree, you want to be successful in life. Please maintain your sports skills and time. The amount of work you put in is on both sides of being an athlete and a scholar. That’s why most people call athletes scholar-athletes, because they can balance their time between sports and work.
The one thing athletes realize while working up to playing in college is that the work you put in is the work that’s shown on the field. No matter if you have God-given talent, the amount of work still matters. College athletes are on a whole different level, and your main focus is getting a degree and showing up for your team so you and your team can succeed. Senior Victoria Contrer
as says, “I feel so great, so amazing, and so blessed that I get the opportunity to dance at Hope International University.”
Senior Audrey Schlim says, “A message every athlete should know is….. Be the athlete you are. Don’t let one mistake ruin you as a person, as an athlete, and as a human being. Let God take the lead and help you become as successful as you can be.”
