Ohio University XC

check out Miami, better team, better school, awesome guys and they have track and field too. Coach will email back if you're good. What are your prs?

This is sincere (for once): I would greatly appreciate it if someone could tell me the difference between Ohio University and The Ohio State University. Seriously.

FWIW I do know the difference between New York University and the State University of New York.

My Prs are alright, 2:01 800, 10:02 2 mile, 16:39 5k, I'm just looking to try and walk on, not be the best guy on the teAm, and OU seemed like they have a solid program

Ohguy wrote:

My Prs are alright, 2:01 800, 10:02 2 mile, 16:39 5k, I'm just looking to try and walk on, not be the best guy on the teAm, and OU seemed like they have a solid program

Consider DIII schools. You are not going to hear back from OU. I know it doesn't seem like they are good enough (and they aren't) to not at least want a few spare warm bodies as backup, but sadly that just isn't how it works.

Ohio University is in the MAC, once a very strong track conference in cross country and distance running.

Ohio State if you don't follow college athletics is a large Big 10 school. Large school located in Columbus.

Ohio University is in the far South-East corner of the state in a tiny town called Athens.

Ohio University cut funding for track and cross country so they could put all their money in delusions of building a nationally competitive football programs.

Ohio State with one of the biggest college athletic budgets keeps track around but would rather put every dime into football and basketball.

Ohio University also used to be recognized as having the greatest Halloween campus party in the nation.

Try GLIAC schools. They kick ass. There are a few in Ohio.

As someone else posted, do not expect a reply.

The head coach is an okay person and the distance coach truly a nice guy, but they are very lazy in regard to replying to inquiries. The distance coach works another job so some of his behavior is understood. I am from Southeast Ohio. The top girl on my daughter's team finally gave up and OU signed two other girls over 30 seconds slower. I guess they inquired at the right time. Two years later another top girl from our high school could not get a reply. Her father sent something to the coach and copied the AD on the unprofessionalism of such laziness. She was contacted the next day. She went to another school.

If this is really where you want to go try copying the AD on your request and be sure to include that you have tried to contact the coach many times without a reply, if that is really the case. Also, if you can't get a reply or attention as a recruit, how do you think actual coaching will be?

Kyle's Killer Lemonade wrote:

Try GLIAC schools. They kick ass. There are a few in Ohio.

This guy is right. Definitely look at malone and ashland. They are great teams that develop athletes. I am sure you could get a reply.

Ohio Guy, I graduated high school in 2004 with 4:32, 9:52, 16:34 PRs and walked on for indoor/outdoor track at OU. I reached out to the head coach a few times and he was unresponsive and when I showed up he basically ignored me. I was the slowest guy out there due to a summer injury but the distance coach was a really great guy who seemed to actually care about all of his athletes. I had a great time running with the distance squad even though I was horrible. I ran a track 5K once in 16:52 before I gave it up, transferred schools, and got a job because I really couldn't afford college. I regret transferring because Athens is a nice albeit isolated town with a charm of its own.

You'll never hear from the head coach

Your prs aren't fast enough. Either run faster or go d3

I know my Prs aren't fast enough, but hopefully I will run under 16:20 by the end of the season, and as I said I'm only trying to walk on. If OU isn't a good option then I'm completely open to suggestions

Let me try and give you some advice seeing as how I live in athens and run for AHS and have friends w experience trying to talk to their XC coach.

First off, in case you don't know, they only have an XC team. No official track team. This doesn't mean you can run indoor and outdoor track because the team still practices with each other year round (I don't know I what kind of role to coach has at this time, though)

I'm not sure how individualized the training is, but for the people on the team I've talked to it sounds like it's a high mileage program. A lot of people on the "90 mile a week train"

The team is very nice overal and have welcomed me to run with them a couple times when I ran into them during my summer training and I've heard similar stories from others. Definite good vibes.

Getting the coach's attention could be hard, as others have mentioned. We had a runner last year who ran 16:27 then got injured before postseason and 4:32 the previous track season that he never showed intrest in.

The coach himself is a very nice and encouraging guy. I've seen him a lot this year since his daughter's on the team.

If you have any questions I'll be glad to try and answer.

Also a warning about the GLIAC: yes their track programs are great, but their academics are not. I visited several over the summer including Ashland and Malone. Malone is a crazy religious school and Ashland is an absolute clown college

I am assuming Ohio U keeps women's T&F around to satisfy Title 1X.

Sounds like Ohio U. should be renamed Apathy U. located in Apathy, OH.

I agree with you about Malone. I would have to see more evidence that Ohio U is much more less than a "clown college" than Ashland.

During Ashland's meeting with me they were bragging about how 80% of their professors have a PhD or advanced degree. This wasn't the only school in the GLIAC that gladly made this claim. OU may be a party school, but it's at least better than that

Check out the results from All Ohios last weekend and MACs last year and tell me Miami is better than OU.

Not sure who the delusional person from Miami is, but in case you have difficulties reading a results sheet Ohio University beat Miami University by a score of 47 to 82 in the All-Ohio Championships yesterday to place 2nd out of every team in the state other than OSU. The reason the OP didn't get a response is because he is slow, therefore Miami might be a better option for him.

Ohio U. is the greatest college in the nation. No one has ever regretted going there and the cross country team is a rowdy bunch of dedicated guys that train their asses off year round and have more fun than Miami or any other team in Ohio. I'd keep trying to contact the coaches or someone on the team currently. Unless you have red hair. They don't need anymore gingers.

Is this for real? The coach probably hasn't emailed you because OU doesn't need more runners. Their walk ons are faster than Miami. They got 2nd at all Ohio with their b team.