Where can a sub 9:05 junior look at for college?

Is English a second language for you? They probably ignore you for that reason.

SUU, fastest rising program in the nation!

Nah.....

Schools that teach better trolling technique. 0/10.

Prefontaine's salad wrote:

What other kinds of schools should I look at?

Hogwarts

yeah you aren't good enough, frankly to even get looked at you should probably run an 8:40.

But seriously, just drop a line at the schools you want to go to. Most will respond and 99.9% schools in the country will at least let you walk on. Besides look at schools for academics, biggest mistake I made was picking a school based on track and field.

Expect to hear some calls after July 1. I would give you a full ride, assuming you aren't a terrible person, but I guarantee you wouldn't come to my school.

Prefontaine's salad wrote:

I've been e-mailing coaches lately. I'm a sub 9:05 3200 guy and haven't gotten responses from places like Colorado. What gives?

Some of their young guys never ran that in high school.

What other kinds of schools should I look at?

You might get lucky with a D2

If this was the 1990's you would have recruiting trips set up for the following universities:

1.) Arkansas

2.) Stanford

3.) Oregon

4.) Colorado

5.) North Carolina State

Considering that it is not the 1990's and it is the year 2015 your top 5 choices for a full scholarship are probably:

1.) Whoville University

2.) Clown College

3.) South Haven Institute of Technology

4.) Monster University

5.) Faber College

If you have noticed none of the bottom 5 schools exist neither does your chances of getting a scholarship at places like Colorado with 9:05 3200m. You remind me of myself in 1999 when I ran 9:19 for 3200m's and expected colleges and universities to be visiting my house like I was Prefontaine or something but in reality I failed to understand that I had just earned the right to be called top notch mediocre which sadly is you. My best advice is walk on to a good team and earn a scholarship which is what I did and in the end I ran 1:52 for 800m; 3:45 for 1500m; 4:04 for a Mile; and 29:05 10,000m. If a scholarship if you only motivation and a big school is your only motivation you might be focusing on the wrong thing. Remember running is more than likely not going to pay your bills but a good education will it took me years to figure it out also.

Cal State East Bay

too bad it's 2015 and not 1995 haha. high school competition has gotten better at the highest level and 9:05 ain't shit anymore unfortunately for you even if it's good for the sport as a whole.

Where do you live?

Did you run your 9:04.99 at altitude?

Do you only have a 4:20 1600?

How many times did you break 9:15?

Did you mention your 2.9 weighted GPA in your first email?

Are you a girl?

Almost any school will take you on the team but the top tier schools won't give you money. There are a few (Oregon/Colorado type schools) that might not have the room on the roster. But there are schools that were at NCAAs in xc last fall that would be thrilled to have you and some would offer you money. The next tier of schools is where you will be heavily recruited and definitely get money, especially of you have a great xc season in the fall.

These guys are dicks... wrote:

Almost any school will take you on the team but the top tier schools won't give you money. There are a few (Oregon/Colorado type schools) that might not have the room on the roster. But there are schools that were at NCAAs in xc last fall that would be thrilled to have you and some would offer you money. The next tier of schools is where you will be heavily recruited and definitely get money, especially of you have a great xc season in the fall.

+1

9:05 makes you a good prospect. You shouldn't have any issues getting into a decent division one program. Doesn't gurantee Oregon or Colorado but there are plenty of other schools.

You should be out visiting campuses and talking to coaches.

I agree with the poster who said at worst coaches will let you walk on.

Glad to see some one who knows the NCAA recruiting rules mentioned the July 1st date as that is the first time college coaches are permitted to formally/officially contact recruitable athletes going into their Sr. year other than generic info letters prior.

Try University of Portland. A lot of their recruits were in that general area for the 3200

former college coach wrote:

Glad to see some one who knows the NCAA recruiting rules mentioned the July 1st date as that is the first time college coaches are permitted to formally/officially contact recruitable athletes going into their Sr. year other than generic info letters prior.

Email is permitted in track and field on September 1 of a prospect's junior year. This can go well beyond the generic info letters. In fact, the NCAA has loosened rules on electronic attachments in the last year, so a prospect can receive a fairly broad array of materials via email. Prospects may also be contacted through private messaging on Facebook and Twitter ('Direct Messaging'); the same rules to emails apply to these methods of private messaging.