Sprinter walk-on question

Your only possibility is to run solid PRs this year. Otherwise, none of the big ten schools will take you.

This is why I chose to go to a d1 school with good academics but only mid major athletics.

I hope you chose your school based on academics and are just hoping to make the team. I really do wish you luck, but I hope you realize you're unlikely to make it, these schools have too many mediocre football players filling the 82nd slot on the roster to allow an 11.2 guy onto the 40 (or less) person track team.

You can email the coach again after you've accepted the school to ask if you can do the summer workouts. There is a possibility they'll let you try out in the fall.

Have to done any hurdles or jumps? Depending on the school, small chance you could make it as a decathlete with relatively slow times as long as you have some equivalent marks in a few other events.

Thank you! One of the schools at the top of my list is a MAC school! Pretty good programs there.

Any one else have some advice?

What does your year-to-year progression look like?

Freshman Times

Sophomore Times

Junior Times

That might be some important information. Also, how consistent are you? were your PRs from last season a flash in the pan performance or were you pretty consistent low 11's mid 22's?

You would be surprised at how many 10.8 hs guys never run that fast again

Freshman: I don't even remember. Prob not that great though.

Sophomore year: only one I have listed is a 24.1

Jr: 11.24, 22.75.both fat

I was really consistent in the 100. I hit that time 2 or 3 times. In the 200 that time was a little bit of a pr but I was basically down the earlier in the year. Overall I'm a pretty consistent guy.

I don't want to crush your dreams but, you will not be able to compete at the Big10 level with those times. You will need to run 10.5/ 21.5 to even think about Big10. Coming out of high school I was recruited as a 300IH/ 400 guy. My PR's were 38.82/ 50.30. The 100 and 200 were supplementary for me but, my PR's were 11.01/ 22.22. The best OFFER that I had from D1 was Western Illinois at .25 tuition. I ended up deciding to go D3 have a much better running experience and focus on academics. D1 is not all that it is cracked up to be. Explore all options first. If you are dead set on D1, your first two years will probably be on rec/ intramural team where you will focus purely on training.

I appreciate your honesty but I'm not going to let that stop me. I have trained really hard this winter and fall. I plan on trying to go 10.8/ 22 lows. I'm also prob gonna try LJ to increase my versatility to schools. Academics is giving me a lot of money so it wouldn't really hurt to get a good, Big 10 education while trying to run.

Track is nice, but focus on picking the school that will best suit your academic and future goals. T&F at college is fringe sport for men due to title 9. They can find sprinters up the ying yang in the football team, and they slide them over to fix their scholarship numbers. That means they don't care much about sprinters.

Find the right school for you. I am sure that you can then walk on. High school is like Dog Years. Its not beyond comprehension that you'll go sub 11 and sub 22. But forget about the track part. Think about the academic part.

At the end of your college career, there is a good chance that you won't even have finished maturing. If you are a white kid and still growing.

By the time you are 30 none of this stuff will matter. But the degree you come away with and the education will.

If you run fast enough, it may be that you can get more money out of the academics if you play the cards right. Tell any coach you write to, that you have great grades, and a choice between his team and another. Especially a competitor.

There is money out there, but where its slotted and accounted is the game.

As an aside, I was a D1 full ride, 10.3, 21.0 46.4. 24'10" LJ, 49'00 TJ, 6'5" HJ the jumps all in HS. Sport is where you learn about yourself.

Thank you for taking the time to write that! Wow! Those are some fantastic numbers!!! I completely agree with you. Grades/a degree is something no one can ever take away from you. I have taken this search in a wholistic approach. Finding somewhere that fits me both academically and, hopefully, athletically. This isn't nice just a 4 year desicion, rather, a 40 year one.