What are my College Running Options?

Interesting you consider yourself a strong student but want to enter business “school”. I thought you valued academics?

Don't major in economics. Just don't do it.

Please bruh.

Division II colleges in Minnesota:

Bemidji State University Bemidji

Concordia University

University of Minnesota Duluth Duluth

Minnesota State University Mankato

Minnesota State University Moorhead

Southwest Minnesota State University

St. Cloud State University

University of Minnesota Crookston

Winona State University Winona

Division III colleges in Minnesota:

Augsburg University

Bethany Lutheran College

Bethel University

Carleton College

Concordia College

Crown College

Gustavus Adolphus College

Hamline University

Macalester College

Martin Luther College

University of Minnesota Morris

North Central University

University of Northwestern – St. Paul

College of St. Benedict

College of St. Catherine

Saint John's University

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota Winona Minnesota

St. Olaf College

College of St. Scholastica

University of St. Thomas

Generally better academics at the DIII schools, and in Carleton College and Macalester College, you have two of the top DIII colleges in the country. I don't know anything about their business education though.

You could be a contributor for a DII or DIII team, and if you improve while there, you could do very well.

Being on a team in college helps you organize your time out of necessity. Unless you have big academic challenges (and that happens either personally or with classes that conflict or projects you need to do on weekends, etc.), I say you should at least give it a try. Many of those schools would be geeked to have you. Good luck.

Flagpole, out of curiosity, what are the D1 schools? I once saw a D1 cross country meet up in that area, and the OP would not have been out of place. He would have been a solid contributor on a lot of those teams.

There are a few ND/SD schools close to Minnesota (UND, NDSU, SDSU, USD, some others), but I don't know which of them the OP would want to target for an accounting major.

I would suggest you look at some schools in the Midwest as well. It might be a bit further away, depending where in MN you live. But the GLIAC, GLVC, and GMAC are some of the best D2 running conferences in the country outside of the Western ones like the RMAC.

Are you still looking for a school? Check out Winona state it’s an amazing area and has a good business program.

you can also do club at a D1 school that is better for academics. Not to be harsh but your running times arent anything special and shouldnt be your priority in school selection. find a school where if you got injured youd be happy with the rest of the environment. and if thats a d2 or d3 school where you can run on the team then great, if not then they may have a club team where you will have plenty of people to train with still.

Tons of good D3 options around you and in nearby states.