Best program I could walk on at with a 4:30 mile and 1:59 800 senior year?

I don't understand. Did you run 4:30 and 1:59 this spring as a senior? You can only go to college where you have been accepted and accepted their offer. If you ran 4:30 and 1:59 with a 10:36 as a junior, you can do a lot about your training and run low 4:20s/high 4:10s next year and walk on everywhere except the top 30 running schools who kind of don't take walkons anyway.

American University. Look it up.

Might want to try BC according to the other thread!

#justrunnn wrote:

Super unsure about it. Is D1 even in the picture? My aerobic ability isn't where I wish it was (10:36 3200 pr)

You can run at most colleges who have a football team that aren't on national television.

@^%YTUH N(sdvvo8p7 wrote:

I don't understand. Did you run 4:30 and 1:59 this spring as a senior? You can only go to college where you have been accepted and accepted their offer. If you ran 4:30 and 1:59 with a 10:36 as a junior, you can do a lot about your training and run low 4:20s/high 4:10s next year and walk on everywhere except the top 30 running schools who kind of don't take walkons anyway.

I meant that I am a hs senior who at his peak is running those times THIS season. Hoping to walk on in the coming year. I am going to a D1 school but the program isn't nationally ranked.

#justrunnn wrote:

I meant that I am a hs senior who at his peak is running those times THIS season. Hoping to walk on in the coming year. I am going to a D1 school but the program isn't nationally ranked.

So you are already going to a college? Why don't you just ask the coach there?

#justrunnn wrote:

@^%YTUH N(sdvvo8p7 wrote:

I don't understand. Did you run 4:30 and 1:59 this spring as a senior? You can only go to college where you have been accepted and accepted their offer. If you ran 4:30 and 1:59 with a 10:36 as a junior, you can do a lot about your training and run low 4:20s/high 4:10s next year and walk on everywhere except the top 30 running schools who kind of don't take walkons anyway.

I meant that I am a hs senior who at his peak is running those times THIS season. Hoping to walk on in the coming year. I am going to a D1 school but the program isn't nationally ranked.

So you've already picked your school, but you want to know what schools you can run for?

Run JuCo and develop your running abilities while saving a boat load of cash on classes that don't matter anyway. Transfer after 2 years and with some luck you'll have scholarships for both academics and running.

Junior 1.0 wrote:

Run JuCo and develop your running abilities while saving a boat load of cash on classes that don't matter anyway. Transfer after 2 years and with some luck you'll have scholarships for both academics and running.

This is an interesting option that won't suit everyone but deserves consideration. What juco's have programs that have developed distance running talent in the recent past?

I was in a similar boat my senior year about 10 years ago. I ran :52, 1:58, 4:48, 10:56, 17:40 my junior year in my first year of running. I was running 15-20 miles a week (including warmups and cool downs), with long runs being 3 miles. My training was a joke. Grades were great, was a team captain, coaches loved me, etc.

I talked to a few schools- one well known mid-major, and a few others with strong programs, a few D2 programs, a couple of D3 programs and one NAIA program. The D1 programs were all adamant that either I was not worth their time or a roster spot. The D2 programs said I may or may not have a roster spot open if I improved. I ended up running :50, 1:56.0 (60 second first lap on this one), 4:30, 16:30 the following year on the same training, and was promised a roster spot at the local D1 school in a walk-on position. I had my roster spot yanked during the summer, however, because of a coaching staff change and an influx of runners from a neighboring state that had run essentially the same 800 times as me but on 4x the training.

I committed to the only school that offered me money and ran 1:48 and 3:43 for them, while steadily increasing my milage from 30 mpw as a freshman to over 60 as a 5th year senior, while the guys that came in and took those roster spots ended up running around 1:54 and around 3:55. If you are absolutely sure you want to run in college, go where somebody is willing to invest in you, both financially and from a time aspect. The coaches at the school I almost went to ran a meat grinder trying to get walk-ons to become scorers at conference their freshman years and battled injuries for four years, when they could have progressed guys and had NCAA qualifiers instead. You will be much happier.