My DS "walked on" to the baseball team last year. They were NAIA and went to the NAIA World Series last year (going to Div 2 next year) Being a catcher requires a bit more time practicing than most of the players and he found the 30 ++ hours the sport required from each week incredibly demanding.
He did not practice with the team during the fall semester and as a tech major had a 3.77 GPA. The Spring semester he joined the team and his GPA dropped nearly an entire point and he found himself retaking Physics over the summer bringing his D up to an A (99% in the class).
He also found his health declined due to the demanding schedule. Towards the end of the semester he found himself in the infirmary, out of class for nearly a week with some bug that landed in his chest. His body has yet to come back 100% from that bout and he has found himself just short of being able to come up with that coveted 100 on his PFA by a few seconds on the 1 1/2 mile run.
He decided his ROTC career was more important than his baseball career. (He had previously declined baseball scholarships from other colleges to attend his 1st choice in colleges).
Knowing that going to SFT this upcoming summer was imperative to his ROTC and AF career he chose to "retire" from baseball.....This has given him more time to participate within his very large detachment and doing so better able to display his commitment to the program as well as open up the hours for studying.
Although he loves baseball and while it is not out of the question that he may rejoin the baseball team after becoming a POC he believes that joining the team when he did was probably the only decision that he regrets making as a college AFROTC student.
While it is possible to play multiple varsity sports in high school and hold down multiple leadership positions in other student activities while never missing a beat know that college and ROTC is a completely different beast.
Only you know what your main goals are as you begin college. If you are the typical student that needs to devote time to studying to get those A's and as an ROTC student those grades are important to your future (especially with what's going on with the budget and downsizing) be assured that playing a sport will definitely impede these goals, but not make them impossible.
It's up to you to decide what you want and how bad you want it. and I'll once again refer to my son's favorite quote
Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it";
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he'd begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That "cannot be done," and you'll do it.