The Aztecs are at Air Force just three days after playing 125 miles away at Colorado State, but they flew home between games to get out of the altitude and attend classes
Micah Parrish was finally nodding off to sleep when the bus pulled into campus Thursday morning. It was 3 a.m.
“It’s something you have to deal with,” the junior wing said of balancing academics and athletics. “You’re not just a regular student, like many people think. It’s tougher. But you have to get the job done. … I don’t think people really understand. Somebody in my class saw me and asked, ‘Wait, what time did you get back last night?’”
Colorado State’s Moby Arena sits at 5,023 feet. Air Force’s Clune Arena is at 7,081 feet, the second highest basketball venue in Div. I. “I’ve just been in the conference too long,” Dutcher said, “and seen too many second games at altitude to know it’s nothing to do with attitude — they want to play hard — and it’s not that they’re grabbing their knees and they can’t catch their breath. They’re a half-step slow, and a half-step slow in any sporting event is going to cost you a game.”
“It was actually really interesting,” Bradley said. “And it was the first class of the semester, so it was kind of exciting to get up and go. And it was packed. People were showing up late, and they weren’t on the attendance list anymore. I got there on time.” “Yeah, being a student in college is hard enough,” Bradley said of the wild week. “You throw athlete on top of that, it’s a full-time job. People think being an athlete on campus comes with a lot of perks, which it does. But not academically. We have to work twice as hard to make sure we stay on top of things. It gets a bit challenging, but the reward is you get to play on a really good team and you’re on scholarship. It’s a win-win.
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