Slowest Division 1 Cross country/track programs

Look at Utah Valley University or Northern Colorado University. The university of Montana might be a good fit. Where are you from?

I live in the Midwest

just look at the great lakes regional results from xc last year and look at the last place teams. Valparaiso, wisconsin green bay, toledo ect.

Any school in the NEC.

There might be a reason some programs are consistently at the bottom of their regional meets or not even show up at all for that meet. They don't give a crud about their programs and haven't gotten around to cutting it yet. Some only keep it around as a small part of their "Running Programs" with track and field getting the emphasis. Head coaches philosophy/background or value they place on that program is reflected in their results.

My point is; if they don't value the program, they won't value you or your effort enough to be able to help you improve as much as you could. You won't get the attention or education you should. Best bet is to go D2 and get into a program that cares about helping you reach your potential.

St. Bonaventure

Bowling Green

b careful of what you wish for wrote:

There might be a reason some programs are consistently at the bottom of their regional meets or not even show up at all for that meet. They don't give a crud about their programs and haven't gotten around to cutting it yet. Some only keep it around as a small part of their "Running Programs" with track and field getting the emphasis. Head coaches philosophy/background or value they place on that program is reflected in their results.

My point is; if they don't value the program, they won't value you or your effort enough to be able to help you improve as much as you could. You won't get the attention or education you should. Best bet is to go D2 and get into a program that cares about helping you reach your potential.

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Unless you really need to say "I ran D1", you're better off finding a DII school that takes the sport seriously.

runnerdude40 wrote:

Any school in the NEC.

+1

leave your email OP. someone will contact you

Tenn Tech..

You should focus on finding a school that will provide a good overall experience (including academics) and fit your running plans around that. Any sense of satisfaction that you are running at a D1 school will soon dissipate if you don't like other parts of the college experience such as the location (too far from home?, rural campus?), cost (out-of-state tuition), campus life (commuter school?), housing situation, classes/professors. There are lots of D1 schools that only care about the revenue sports of football and basketball and have weak teams in XC/track (and other non-revenue sports). Likewise there are lots of good coaches and XC/track programs at all levels. Talk to a HS counselor about researching colleges based on your interests.

Any southeast school really. They're slow.

D1hopeful wrote:

I have moderate PR's and I am a senior in high school, but I really want to run D1. PR's : 10:06 (3200m), 4:39 (1600m), and 16:42(5000m XC) . Where would the people of LetsRun advise me to look into and e-mail the coaches ? Any location is fine.

why, Why, WHY?! Why would you want to run on the Slowest Division 1 team? They are slow for a reason...either the location sucks for running or the school is horrible or the coach is horrible or they don't care about CC or track there or any combination of all of that. Why put yourself in that awful situation?

What is with you people and wanting to run D1? It is NOT a measure of greatness AT ALL. Holy crap there are some TERRIBLE D1 teams out there. Why would you want to run on any of them?

There are SOME DII schools that might want you, but you are likely not getting any money from any of them (or the D1 ones either).

Why not find a good DIII school with a good running program (there are LOTS of them) and go actually get some attention from a coach and have some real competition in races so that you might actually get better rather than being lapped.

Running on the slowest D1 team is like getting a crappy rusted out BMW just because you want to drive a BMW.

Don't do it, brother. Either get faster and go to a legit D1 team, or change your goals...DII or even better, DIII.

I don't like to say it but FP is right unless your grades are worse than your times and you just pick the slowest D1 school in your state to save with in-state tuition.

ol cm9-8 wrote:

I don't like to say it but FP is right unless your grades are worse than your times and you just pick the slowest D1 school in your state to save with in-state tuition.

You should ENJOY agreeing with the voice of reason.

University of Delaware. I'm not sure they ever even had a fast runner.

And why would D2 not also have the same problems. Most D1 schools and D3 schools have better academic reputations, not saying all, but most. I bet if OP is top 7 on the team he will get attention even if this hypothetical team is at the bottom of their region/conference.

Flagpole is actually making sense. It's time to start looking for the other three horsemen.