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I am a college senior looking to walk on to whatever school I go to next year. Right now I am looking at UC Davis, UCSB, and UCSD. Obviously UCSD is D2, so do they have easier standards? Does anyone know how the schools treat walk-ons? Thanks. |
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I have some friends who went to UCSD and UCSB. They told me the UCSD standard was under 22 minutes for a 4-mile XC time trial they run and UCSB you had to run 9:45 for 3200m on the track in order to make the respective teams. This was a few years ago so I don't know if anything has changed. |
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Hey, if you're planning on walking on at one of those schools you should chose your school solely based on academics. Talk to the coaches (if they give you the time of day), but worry more about which school offers the better program for the major you want. |
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Do you know the women's standards? |
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UCI is a D1 program with the same level of academics. As for a walk-on standard, they have none. The coach is very nice and figures he should give anyone a shot. That said, UCSB does have that time-trial and no clue about Davis, but their coaching is good. Don't go to UCSD. If you are thinking in terms of running, go to a D1 school. UCD, UCSB, and UCI are all comparable in terms of academics. The only UCs that are way too far out there are Cal and UCLA. Cal poops on talent anyways |
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| Van |
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Shouldn't you try to RUN-on? Sorry, couldn't resist. Have you looked at UC- SantaCruz? Beautiful spot, good academics, D3. |
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Based on what I hear from a bunch of friends at Davis, walk ons are not treated great. I hear at Cal its about the same. UCSC doesnt even have a team |
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You probably should clarify what it is your looking for here. Do you mean what is the process for a walk-on to make the team (tryouts, standards, etc...) or how will the coaches/team behave toward you if you do make the team? Your question isn't very specific. If you want to walk-on to a team you should first make sure that you're competitive with the level of athletes that are on the team. (Not whether you can beat people on the team today, but are you at a similar level (today) to what competitive athletes on the team were at when they were your age/grade). You should do your homework to figure this out (look at the list of conference championship runners from each team last season and figure out what their HS PRs were). When you find a school that is at your level, then contact the coach and ask about the walk-on process. They will be more than happy to talk to you if you're a good fit. Don't waste your time trying to walk-on to a school that is above your competition level. The coach might be the nicest person in the world, but he/she is up against participation limits and only has so much space available. They likely get requests like this often and can't explain to every "varsity" HS cross country runner what they need to do to make the team. |
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Contact the coaches at each school and ask them. And while the academic strengths of the three schools are similar, the student life (and cost of housing once you live off campus) is quite different at each of these three schools, so hopefully you have visited each school and are researching the schools beyond running. |
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You can pretty much walk onto any D2 team except the top ones if you put in at least 50-60mpw the summer before XC and can run like 28mins for 8k. That's based on personal experience. You may not get much attention from the coach though. The same is pretty much true for d3, except you might be allowed on of you're a 31min 8k guy or faster. (NOTE: the top d3 teams though have higher standards and may require you to be like at least 27min for 8k) If you have a good GPA and are a solid hard worker who doesn't distract from the teams mission, this increases your chances |