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So Your Best Friend Is A Student Athlete

This is the line up for the Top 10 Highlights you face when your best friend is your MVP.

Kaitlyn Miller

Oct 03, 2016

SUNY Oneonta

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So Your Best Friend Is A Student Athlete

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Let's not kid around - being an athlete is no joke. You have practice, training, private work out sessions, scrimmages, and games. Now add college to the mix. There are classes, tutoring, review sessions, team studying, private studying, and oh, tests. Nonetheless, if you love what you play, you are willing to take some risks...even if that includes passing out the moment you get back to your dorm.

Ha, no, no, I am not a student athlete, but my best friend is. So naturally, I get to hear all about the good, the bad, and the ugly - and worse, I witness it on a daily basis. Up to seeing what it is like to have your best friend be a student athletes?

Here are the the Top 10 Highlights:

10. Meeting them at 8am for breakfast

Because you know they have already been up for about three hours.

9. Their cheerful "good morning!"

Enjoy your fruit.

7. When they ask you to work out with them even though you know you should

Oh yeah, I would love to, but I have this thing I have to do...now...that I forgot about...

6. Seeing their defeated look in class after a long week

To be honest, this is the hardest part about being best friends with an athlete.

5. Surprising them with snacks and drinks at their class to hype them up

Strawberry-Banana smoothie and a bag of trail mix? Coming right up!

4. Going to all their games decked out in school colors

Air horn? Check. Flag? Check. Body paint? Check.

3. When they make an amazing play

You probably look and sound obnoxious, but who cares?

2. When the ref makes a call against your best friend's team

I don't care if it was the right call on your part ref, I'm still mad.

And most importantly,

1. When they win, you win.

All jokes aside, I admire my best friend for doing all she does for her team, for the school, when it comes to her classes, and for me. Maybe I cover my body in too much red, black, and white paint. Maybe I enjoy meeting my best friend's hot teammates. Maybe she can get me into parties.

On the field, and off the field, the best friends are always the best cheerleaders. Sorry Dallas Cowboys.

And remember, win or lose, you are your best friend's biggest fan.

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