"Year One: Life at ASU" is a periodic photo series following five freshmen navigating their first year at ASU. This installment checks in on Sabrina Haines and the student-athlete's study hall sessions.
Part of the freshmen experience is the freedom of finding your own routine, one not limited by the imposed structures of parents or high school. Although ASU's student-athletes live their own lives, their freshmen experience is a little more bound by structure as these ultra-busy students have days where nearly every minute is scheduled – from classes to practices to training to study sessions.
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Freshman basketball player Sabrina Haines heads to a study session at the Carson Student Athletic Center on the Tempe campus Sept. 17.
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Haines checks in with the monitor at the study hall to do her homework. ASU's student-athletes have scheduled study sessions here, where they're required to spend chunks of time hitting the books. The sessions require these students to focus on their work, but they also provide a sense of community as student-athletes from all sports come together.
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Haines plugs in her laptop and prepares to work on homework in study hall for two hours, which is required for all athletes. Haines, a Phoenix native who was a basketball star at Desert Vista High, is studying to be a sports journalist in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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Haines pulls out her scientific calculator to help her with her homework during study hall at the Carson Student Athletic Center. In addition to her journalism classes, Haines is also taking a chemistry course.
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The daily routine of ASU's student-athletes can look packed full from morning to night, but most of these sports stars say they wouldn't have it any other way. Haines is adjusting to this pace well, using her time between classes and training to study journalism during a study session in the Carson Student Athletic Center.
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