Hi I am a rising senior in high school and am looking to pursue a career in pharmacy as well as run cross country/track. Can someone please tell me about the city of Omaha as well as creighton university and their cross country team. They seem to be improving every year and was wondering if this is a good option for me? Thanks in advance.
The university and the area of Omaha it is in are definitely on the upswing. Not sure about their running program but the school recently moved from the Missouri Valley Conference to the Big East so they have more money/resources funneling into every team.
I've never heard anything about a track team there, but they had a decent XC guy a few years back.
The Pharm program is pretty top notch.
I'd go elsewhere for your undergrad. Save some serious $. Then apply to CU for pharm. The city is decent. What particularly do you want to know? Also, they don't have track, just XC. I believe the guys on the team do indoor meets, they just don't have a formal university team. Are you settled on going to school in Nebraska?
I have a friend who's female and is going to be a freshman there. She's slow. I also have a friend whos is fairly fast at 400-10mile and she's going to run there too. They might have low standards. That's all the input I have.
Depends what you are looking for. I visited last year...Coach Rogers was a good enough guy but got the impression he'd read one too many Runners Worlds/Triathlon Magazines. Doing the best he could...he talked up the track meets they went to without track as a sport. Then I realized what they could actually do during track season was very limited though - and not much of the team competed during track season. The guys were nice and all jacked about beating a couple teams at the conference meet but seemed like they took a much more recreational approach to it all though. Good school, OK town (make sure you are OK living there afterward), but decided I wanted to be with a more serious program and still get an education...can't do that without track. If you just want DI for the sake of DI though and/or are primarily going for the education, not a bad choice. If you really want to compete in college though and don't have typical DI times, there are much better choices in the lower divisions. No one with real DI times goes to XC only schools.
Rosie R. wrote:
Not sure about their running program but the school recently moved from the Missouri Valley Conference to the Big East so they have more money/resources funneling into every team.
Meant to say that I found the part I quoted about xc getting more money now that they are in the Big East to be unlikely from different sources at the university...I did my homework.
Midwest DIII wrote:
Rosie R. wrote:Not sure about their running program but the school recently moved from the Missouri Valley Conference to the Big East so they have more money/resources funneling into every team.