Walking on with a 4:14 1600m?

You can walk on anywhere with that time.

shutit wrote:

You can walk on anywhere with that time.

Haha well that's reassuring. I know next to nothing about walking on to any colleges. Thanks for the input.

I would agree

shutit wrote:

You can walk on anywhere with that time.

Type up an email saying how interested you are in pursuing a college running career and stress how important your academics are as well. Give a few examples of your best times (preferably most recent/current race times). Also be sure to ask what is needed/expected of you. Send it out to the schools you are interested in running for.

I assume your 4:14 is from Jr year. If so, you should be doing better than walking on. You should, at a minimum, be getting preferential admissions to a better school. Or a partial scholarship to a second tier D1 program.

Did you contact any coaches? Did they reach out to you?

Have you already applied EA/ED anywhere?

I was in your spot back in high school and ended up getting hurt my senior year and not improving on my times. Luckily the coach gave me a spot on the team for a year and i worked my butt off to improve that year and ended up earning more and more scholarship money every year. Goto a school where you will improve the most and dont settle for scholarship money your 1st year. you should be challenged every day by your teammates and not just walk in being the best. Im sure Oregon or UCLA would be a good place for that. Good luck

if you want to go D1, thats fine, but don't underestimate the size of d2 and 3 schools. Ya there are some with less than 1000 students, but plenty, like the Wisconsin schools have 15-20,000. This is why the wisco schools are so good. They act like its superior training or coaching, when really its just numbers. All the 30,000+ people schools are D1 though.

I coach at a division I school. I will not identify myself or my school, as that would be a NCAA recruiting violation. I will also say that I doubt I would be the only coach/institution that would be interested in you as a prospective student athlete.

We have awarded several athletes partial scholarships with times like yours.

Don't sit at home waiting for the phone to ring - take initiative! It's your life, your college career.

There are many great schools and great coaches who would be excited to have you. Reach out to them and you will see!

george A wrote:

if you want to go D1, thats fine, but don't underestimate the size of d2 and 3 schools. Ya there are some with less than 1000 students, but plenty, like the Wisconsin schools have 15-20,000. This is why the wisco schools are so good. They act like its superior training or coaching, when really its just numbers. All the 30,000+ people schools are D1 though.

Which D3 state school(s) in WI have 15-20,000 students? Do you know what the roster sizes for track or cross country are at these schools? Why are the largest D1 schools not always qualifying for nationals, because everyone knows it's really just numbers?