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If you play competitive sport in college, your experience is probably more athletic than

academic.

Valentino Dottoso plays football at UC Berkeley.

I play offensive line.

Jaden Grant plays at Oregon State.

I play defensive back.

Jaden and Valentino have played against each other many times.

They're at different schools, but their football schedules are pretty similar.

Yeah, so a typical Tuesday because that's usually the first day, but we practice.

Get up in the morning at about 6am, be there for 6.30am, either preventive rehab or rehab

for an injury.

Or you know, something that you're just trying to keep rehabs, even there for treatment.

And then you'll have meetings around 8am.

There's a position-specific meetings, a special team's meetings.

It makes you get breakfast before that and all that stuff.

You go to class in between, you come back.

You have about 10 minutes in between there and practice.

After that, you hit the trainer room again for rehab and then have meetings later in

that day.

And then the evening to get what homework that you can done.

Now, actually playing football, those Saturday games that is like the dessert part of being

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