What schools could I get recruited by/ run on?

At the moment, you won't be recruited by any college coaches. However, you could walk on to a mediocre d3 team right now. Drop your times a bit during senior xc and senior indoor track, then maybe youll be recruited. (800 is your best event, focus on that)

Based off of your good grades but relatively slow times, I'd try looking into some of the more academically focused d3 schools and narrow your choices down bases on location, your planned major, and the teams themselves. You would be walking onto these though, not being recruited.

Here are the first two results when googling "best d3 schools":

http://www.studentathleteworld.com/images/uploads/pages/Best_Academic_D3_Schools.pdf

http://colleges.startclass.com/d/c/NCAA-Division-III

Maybe check some of the schools in those links out?

Getting more into specifics, I can't tell you much about any of these outside of schools in the UAA (Chicago, Wash U, Case Western, etc). Of them Case Western and Carnegie Mellon are both close to you.

All of them are pretty good academically, although with your current times you'd still probably be one of the worse people on the teams. I'm not sure about how walking on works at each school currently works, but you wouldn't have made it onto my old team with your current prs.

However, if you can get your prs closer to 2:03, 4:30, 10:00 (these are just rough guesses at times, not walk on cutoffs) you'd probably be fine as far as being on the team, having similarly good people to train with, and the coach at least kind of paying you attention goes. This is especially true since these would all be pretty decent improvements, indicating you could continue to get better.

Contact the schools you're interested in and see what their standards are. Standards can vary widely even within an NCAA division.

11:00 3200? Nowhere.

If you want to run in college you can, you may not travel with the team always but you'll get to practice and do local meets at the very least. Obviously not all schools but there will be plenty to choose.

Try Boston College

There are many D3 schools in Ohio, some of which are extremely good academically (Kenyon, Oberlin, Wooster are all nationally competitive), and several more that are quite good. The schools you listed all suck academically. Look at the D3 schools, get a much better education, and run.

letsrun college counseling wrote:

Look at the D3 schools, get a much better education, and run.

Yes, because D3 schools offer a much better education than:

Stanford, USC, UCLA, Berkeley, Michigan, Ohio State, BC, Georgetown, Duke, UNC, UT, UVA, Vanderbilt, the Service Academies and the Ivy League.

Lol.

You not a great runner, will not be your career. Why not go to best college you can for academics you have good grades. Selling yourself short to go to a crap school just to walk on for a mediocre track team

Become a pharmacist. Run for St. Louis School of Pharmacy. They'll take anybody.

formerD1 wrote:

Yes, because D3 schools offer a much better education than:

Stanford, USC, UCLA, Berkeley, Michigan, Ohio State, BC, Georgetown, Duke, UNC, UT, UVA, Vanderbilt, the Service Academies and the Ivy League.

Lol.

Hey, Einstein. He was comparing NAIA schools and D3 schools. The OP is obviously not a D1 talent so why would you even bring up D1 schools? Try to read for comprehension.

formerD1 wrote:

letsrun college counseling wrote:

Look at the D3 schools, get a much better education, and run.

Yes, because D3 schools offer a much better education than:

Stanford, USC, UCLA, Berkeley, Michigan, Ohio State, BC, Georgetown, Duke, UNC, UT, UVA, Vanderbilt, the Service Academies and the Ivy League.

Lol.

You are an idiot.

I was comparing the Ohio D3 schools to the list the OP had looked at. That said, I went to a small, very good D3 school, went to a large D1 state school for grad work, did a postdoc at one of the schools you listed, and was a college professor. I have the education and experience to make such judgments in addition to the one made above. What about you?

Definitely go D3, lots of solid academic schools that have teams that Will take almost anyone as long as they are willing to put in the work. I broke 18:00 once as a senior in XC, ran 4:44 for 1600 in track, averaging 25-30 miles a week, and walked on to an average or slightly above average D3 team. The vast majority of programs will welcome you. Coaches at D3 schools love kids like you who haven't run all that fast and had poor or low mileage training, but their times indicate some potential. I'd bet a decent amount of the guys that made all American in XC this year weren't faster than 16:00 for 5k in HS. And maybe 1 or 2 that weren't faster than 17:00. To make all American (top 35) this year you had to run 25:02, so essentially, most of these guys improved enough to hold their HS pace for 5k over 8k.

Make sure you go to a place where the coach has turned past guys like you into good runners. Look at the high school programs history of the people you are looking at. If the school doesn't produce many fast runners (relative to its size), you can assume that the coach isn't running a high mileage or even "good" program. Only look at kids with slow times from these schools and see their improvement over 4 years. A 17:30 guy in high school might run 16:00, and while that's great, if he doesn't run any faster after sophomore year, that's an issue. You have to look for a pattern of these kinds of things to be sure. Also look at the coach's past history at other schools for more examples.

Finally, Make sure you meet a vast majority of the team before you decide, if you don't fit in with them, really think about your decision. It will not be fun if you don't like the team or if the team doesn't like you.

excellent shepherd wrote:

You are an idiot.

I was comparing the Ohio D3 schools to the list the OP had looked at. That said, I went to a small, very good D3 school, went to a large D1 state school for grad work, did a postdoc at one of the schools you listed, and was a college professor. I have the education and experience to make such judgments in addition to the one made above. What about you?

I went to a D1 school (one of the ones I listed), was accepted to every graduate program I applied to (ranging from PhDs at Ivy Leagues to all of the top 5 MBA programs) and I went the MBA route.

If you want to get into a cockfight over resume, I can run circles around your 3rd tier non-tenure professor job at some local crap school.

formerD1 wrote:

I went to a D1 school (one of the ones I listed), was accepted to every graduate program I applied to (ranging from PhDs at Ivy Leagues to all of the top 5 MBA programs) and I went the MBA route.

And yet you couldn't understand a simple comparison post. Are you one of those people who fancies himself highly intelligent but doesn't have the sense God gave a horse?

Rocket surgeon wrote:

And yet you couldn't understand a simple comparison post. Are you one of those people who fancies himself highly intelligent but doesn't have the sense God gave a horse?

First, I think you forgot to login to your regular username. It's pretty pathetic you need to use 3 separate accounts to respond to someone you deem is lacking in common sense.

Second, I don't feel bad at all that I went to a far higher ranked schools than you, and I think it's pathetic you consider your 3rd tier adjunct professorship at tiny dinky local college anything worth bragging about on Letsrun.com

Finally, and to the point, OP never mentioned he was looking only at Ohio schools. You made the idiotic inference that just because he listed a few Ohio schools, that that must be all he is considering. In fact, the OP stated that his friend suggested NAIA, which would indicate that OP is open-minded about out-of-state running as well, a point conveniently ignored (or negligently missed thanks to your shoddy reading comprehension skills).

With his grades (not sure about his test scores), in my opinion it would be idiotic and beyond stupid to limit his education to D3 schools. There are plenty of top academic D1/D2/D3 schools he could apply to and get into nationwide. He could even walk on to some of these D1/D2/D3 schools.

But your narrow-minded lunacy decided all on itself that he is only considering Ohio schools.

FormerD1 is a liar and the least entertaining troll on this board. Please stop posting, find something better to do with your time. Thanks.

FormerfrauD1 wrote:

FormerD1 is a liar and the least entertaining troll on this board. Please stop posting, find something better to do with your time. Thanks.

Translation: "I have nothing intelligent to say so just shut up and tell me I am right and you are wrong!"

Completely disregarding your other idiocies, you put Ohio State in the same category as Stanford? And think it's a better school than ANY D3 school (including MIT, Pomona, Amherst, etc.)? Really? Also, it's been established you're a lying troll, so I wouldn't be too proud about your invented resume.