Down Under sports?

No, your coach did you a favor. Everyone and there brother gets an invite. Its a waste of 6k. Quite a few JV kids at my school got those as well

Everyone gets an invite. It's a very expensive out of season race that as a coach I wouldn't recommend any of my serious runners take part in. If a kid really wants to do it, I'll recommend they do it after they graduate their senior year. Nobody who is serious about the sport goes. I'm sure it's a fun experience though, especially for $5,600.

Just think of it as a nice vacation. It doesn't sound as if it a highly competitive meet and you're having to pay out $5600. Does that even include flight?

It’s a scam. Sorry. Plus $5600 is a lot. The AAU or USATF summer meets in your area are probably more competitive.

Kangaroo runner wrote:

Its only $5600 for the trip.

Only $5600? What kinda privilege you got?

Kangaroo runner wrote:

So i got this letter last march inviting me to represent the usa at the Down Under xc. meet.

I was the second runner on my team and top 30 at state in class 3

My coach told my parents it was a waste of money and i should go to a camp close to home so they didn't let me go. But another runner on my team is going.

Should I have gone? Its only $5600 for the trip.

Listen to those who have been there. I get five or six letters every year from them. They usually send them to decent runners, so it is nothing special to get invited.

Kangaroo runner,

I highly recommend Down Under Sports for any boy runner who is in the range of 2:01-2:15 800m. Here at Down Under we really emphasize 200s in building strength for the last 100m of the 800. We will do anywhere from 130-200 reps of 200m per day, everyday.

Thanks,

Assistant coach Double-U

One thing I noticed from researching Down Under Sports is that there is always one response defending them on any given message thread.

What is missing is specific running information.

Any decent runner I ever knew would be telling what time and place they got in the meet, where that meet or race was, and who else was in it. Not just, "it was the trip of a lifetime".

And where are the complete results for these Down Under events?

LOTS of unanswered questions.

I also advised my runners to avoid this...better running opportunities right here in our own state.

Kangaroo runner wrote:

So i got this letter last march inviting me to represent the usa at the Down Under xc. meet.

I was the second runner on my team and top 30 at state in class 3

My coach told my parents it was a waste of money and i should go to a camp close to home so they didn't let me go. But another runner on my team is going.

Should I have gone? Its only $5600 for the trip.

Do it. You may get noticed by an Australian university coach and offered a scholarship.

harry wales wrote:

Kangaroo runner wrote:

So i got this letter last march inviting me to represent the usa at the Down Under xc. meet.

I was the second runner on my team and top 30 at state in class 3

My coach told my parents it was a waste of money and i should go to a camp close to home so they didn't let me go. But another runner on my team is going.

Should I have gone? Its only $5600 for the trip.

Do it. You may get noticed by an Australian university coach and offered a scholarship.

I wouldn’t count on that. University track and field programs are so competitive in Australia that you don’t even have to be a member of the university...you do get a slight discount on your annual membership fees if you’re a uni student, though the best rates are for secondary school (high school) students.

Hey i got invited this year how was your friends experience?

Competed in the DownUnder Games in 2002 for cross country. Was an amazing trip to go on. Several runners that I met at XC NY States, run at Elma Meadows, was on the trip as well. In 2002, the price was $3600 (fund raised $3400 of it). Many runners fund raised much more than I did, so $5600 is not out of reach today.

Finished 2nd in International Race (17:44) and 3rd in USA Race (14:56). Times in HS were 16:08-5K, 9:56-2 Mile, 4:31-Mile. Team was made up of the northeast.

Would recommend to anyone wanting to go! Good start to the summer base training.

Guessing with everything going on its cancelled, maybe 2021.