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Student Athletes  My alarm woke me up, screaming incessantly in
my ear. It was eight o'clock Saturday morning, and I felt like I
had fallen asleep only a few minutes earlier. I rolled out of
bed onto the itchy carpet and somehow found my towel and shampoo
in the darkness so I could drag myself to the shower. As the
steaming water helped wake me up, I began to think about the day
I had in front of me.  "Here we go," I thought. "I better make
it through this one or I'll be in serious trouble."  It was the
27th, and in under an hour I would be in huge gym with hundreds
of people taking the SAT. A mere two hours later, I would have
to row my first 2k erg test of the season. My new coach from
Germany would be standing over my shoulder, and I knew that
those seven minutes would have