Abbie Reddick

Senior Abbie Reddick is a part of the La Salle girls varsity soccer team and the track and field team. Along with that, she plays on a club soccer team when high school soccer season is over. 

Reddick keeps a busy schedule throughout the school year. “Soccer is every day during high school season and three times a week during club season,” she said. Track and field follows a similar schedule, as Reddick also attends those practices each day after school. 

Out of all her classes, AP English 4 with Mr. Krantz has been the hardest so far, she said. Reddick went on to explain that this is because of the “heavy homework load and lots of writing and reading.” 

The amount of time Reddick spends doing homework during the school week can vary. Most of the time, she’ll have at least an hour of homework to complete but “when I have that English class or my math class, it’s up to two hours,” she said.  As for weekends, Reddick will spend up to three hours getting her homework done for the upcoming week.

Reddick says that she definitely feels overwhelmed at times with the amount of school work she has to get done while also succeeding in sports. Junior year, Reddick was assigned a research paper that was to be “at least ten pages in length,” she said. At the time, Reddick was also preparing for an upcoming state soccer tournament. 

This was a challenge for her, as she wanted to be successful in her tournament and with her research paper, but they both took up a lot of time and energy. Through dealing with experiences like this over her past few years at La Salle, she has learned how to be both a good student and a good athlete.

As she begins to finish up her time at La Salle, one tip Reddick has for the underclassmen is to take advantage of the time you have in between school and extracurriculars. “It’s good to use as much time as you can [before practice] so it’s not overwhelming when you get to it at the end of the night,” she said.