Playing two sports is very hard to juggle between school and practice, but many students at De Soto High School participate in multiple sports as well as school clubs and activities.

Senior Alexa Rosetta played volleyball in the fall and girls’ soccer in the spring. For her, the most challenging part was adjusting her amount of school work with sleep.

“The school work forced me to become organized and stay on top of things,” Rosetta said. “There were some nights where I didn’t get home until 11:00 and still had to study for a test, so I had to learn to adapt to my sleep schedule.”

As well as volleyball and soccer, Rosetta was involved in many clubs, such as A&M Crew, NHS, freshman mentor and lite team.

Rosetta is not the only student with a rigorous schedule, senior Anthony Slaughter played football in the fall and baseball in the spring.

Participating in sports may be time consuming, but Slaughter has learned to do schoolwork first since there is a playing restriction if one fails a class

“I feel like playing sports motivated me to do my schoolwork,” Slaughter said.

Slaughter has many memories from both sports.

“My favorite memory from football was messing around with coach Hessong during practice,” Slaughter said, “and my favorite memory from baseball was all the little extra games we would play in the dugout during the game.”

According to both Rosetta and Slaughter, being involved in athletic teams during high school helps build relationships with classmates.

“My favorite part was the fact that I was continuously doing something every night, and it was doing something I loved as well as all of the friendships I got to build through the sport that I was playing at the time,” Rosetta said.

Playing two sports can be challenging but benefit one in a way that forms new relationships and makes new memories.