say someone with Grant Fisher like talent had mediocre grades, could they still go to a big D1 program like Colorado, Stanford, Oregon, etc to run?
say someone with Grant Fisher like talent had mediocre grades, could they still go to a big D1 program like Colorado, Stanford, Oregon, etc to run?
What's mediocre?
Mostly B's with some C's
oregon prefers stupid runners
It would be relatively harder to get into Stanford (vs. Oregon or Colorado) with bad grades. This should be discussed during the recruiting process.
Yes. Stanford may have a few issues, but other than that or an Ivy, no one else would have a problem with it. Even Stanford would probably get him in.
B&C's with great talent, you can get in everywhere, including all Ivies and academies.
If you have mediocre talent, far less will bend the admissions requirements.
"Grant Fisher like talent" can get in anywhere as long as they have the NCAA minimums but Fisher only happens once a decade.
Barely qualified for Footlocker/NXN talent won't get into Stanford with Bs and Cs unless you go to Phillips Exeter or some crazy competitive magnet school.
Oregon will take any Footlocker/NXN talent with NCAA minimums.
Colorado will be somewhere in between depending on which school/department you apply to.
Why do you think German Fernandez ended up at Oklahoma State? A national record holder and not even WSU wanted him? Grades, pure and simple. And why do you think he ran a 3:55 mile indoors as a freshman and all downhill after that? Because he was stuck with a high mileage coach that was a poor fit for his injury status (low mileage in high school)? Because he had few options due to grades.
One that I have mentioned to some distance kids (a couple of which didn't meet our academic standards for recruiting) is NAU. A great coach, a great program, the altitude training center. AND they admit over 90 percent who apply and graduate almost 90 percent of athletes. You could call them Easy U, I think, but they have produced some top distance runners.
what schools would be interested if I've ran mid 9:20s in the 3200 and low 4:20s in the 1600 as a sophomore on relatively low mileage(40 a week)
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