List of NCAA schools that don’t have track, some lie about it!

lots (if not all) are Title IX casualties. since James Madison moved to Sun Belt they're investing heavily in their athletic department - expect them to bring back mens XC & men's track and field in the coming years.

(lots of talented high school runners in Virginia)

Reno

Vanderbilt, Utah, Temple, SMU, Boston Col., St. John’s, FAU, UAB, Ball St, N. Ill, San Diego St, UNLV, Mercer, Chattanooga, GA St, NM St

Quinnipiac

No men's track team and works out on the Cheshire High School track.

Dumb as heck.

Go Bobcats.

It sounds like an upjumped club team, like a step up from the typical nirca club. Schools that sponsor the sport compete at conference and regionals and nationals, if they qualify. The team also get listed on the athletic department's website. There is nothing wrong with running there. You'll still be a D1 runner - but its only a varsity college team for xc, for track, its a club.

Huntington (where marshall is located) at one point was the fattest city in America. That town needs all the running it can get.

Western Michigan/Oregon State/Hawaii/etc doesn't have men's xc or track.. I thought those thread was just about programs that had xc only for men.

Janet Bawcom ran at Jacksonville State

Marshall has been brought back already. Scored last place at Sun Belt Conference Champs but had some stout performances on the distance side including 3rd in the 800m and 2nd in the steeple.

I competed on a D1 team that only sponsored men's XC and not track so I can shed some light on this.

Schools in this situation do not "sponsor" track but I don't think its necessarily fair to call them club teams. As cross-only athletes we were treated no differently during the track season by support staff or anyone else. That is, we had all the same access to facilities and athletic services as we did during the cross season.

At our school we were allowed 5 meets (across both indoor and outdoor) in which we could compete as uniformed, attached athletes. Everything was paid for as if were members of a sponsored track team. We typically traveled with the women's track team in the same bus, stayed in the same hotels, etc. For these meets we were functionally a sponsored track team.

There were obviously caveats. Beyond 5 meets we would have to run unattached, pay entry, lodging, travel, etc. We maximized our competition limit by running unattached in our home indoor meets (which were very large and very competitive) and attached during the outdoor season. We didn't really compete any less than other track-sponsored teams, other than the important exception of conference and regionals.

Sometimes travel was separate because there's a rule that non-sponsored track teams can't fly, so we had to drive while the women flew. That only happened once or twice though and travel was still paid for and we were driven by an assistant coach.

Another caveat. Because track season was considered out-of-season our coaches had to get creative with countable hours. I can't remember the specifics but we would have many weeks where the maximum countable hours were 10 instead of the typical 20. In those weeks we'd just meet for workouts and weights. We saved 20-hour weeks for competition weeks.

I certainly wouldn't say I regret being on that team, quite the opposite. I loved it, and we had the chance to compete at some very high level meets and put down times that outperformed plenty of sponsored teams. That said, we definitely had a chip on our shoulder about it and endlessly begrudged the athletic department for not sponsoring track. We hated the fact we couldn't compete at conference or regionals. Recruiting certainly suffered from the fact that we couldn't. But we were a decent team and I still enjoyed it.

Running list of schools mentioned. I've double checked these against the school websites, and omitted those that don't sponsor either cross country or track since I think OP was talking about schools that DO sponsor cross but not track. Only checked for men.

Creighton (?)
San Diego
Austin Peay
FGCU
Jacksonville
Jacksonville State
North Alabama
Stetson
Murray State
Loyola (MD)
Toledo
Bowling Green
Central Michigan
Robert Morris
Ohio U
Vanderbilt
Temple
FAU
UNLV
Mercer
Chattanooga
New Mexico State

For sake of correction, the following schools sponsor neither XC nor track for men: Northwester, UAB, SMU, UCF, Ball State, Northern Illinois, SDSU, UNLV, Georgia State, Delaware, West Virginia

Also saw Boston College mentioned for some reason. BC sponsors both XC and track for men.

This confuses me. Creighton does not list track and field at all as a team on its website, and I couldn't find anything to indicate that they had decided to bring it back. All I could find was this tweet:

and an accompanying article:

gocreighton.com

Tommy Ward Qualifies for NCAA West Regional in 800 Meters - Creighton University Athletics

@CreightonXC

OMAHA, Neb. – Tommy Ward has made history! The redshirt sophomore member of Creighton's men's track program is headed to the NCAA West Regional Championships after

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which says, "Creighton ran their first official NCAA track season since 1961 during the spring of 2022 as a distance-based track program, utilizing the cross country roster. Led by head coach Chris Gannon and assistant Matthew Fayers the Bluejays currently compete as an independent in track."

How does this work? What does "utilizing cross country roster" actually mean? I am all for schools adding track where they don't already but is Creighton in compliance here? Just confused by the situation

You are correct- you’re not on a club team. You’re not one ANY track team. You’re on the xc team and you raced 5 times on a track.

You would have enjoyed it more if those local races were paid for by your university instead of on your own. Would have enjoyed it better being on a bus paid for by the school, would have enjoyed it more if you were treated the same as other teams that invested in the team. And it’s actually not hard- your school gets $35,000 for adding a sport so if you’re just an xc team then it would pay for itself with money left over.

also - Northwestern DOES NOT sponsor track.

U of Richmond has Men's XC but no Track and Field.

I think OP didn’t proof read and meant “which schools say they have track but don’t” and the thread sort of figured it out despite her terrible skills of the English language.

You should look up the word. It means to provide funds for. They sponsor it. They spend more money on it than many D1 schools do. They compete in 4 indoor and 4 outdoor meets the same as other schools do. Yes it is different than most teams but the school is the sponsor. And yes they are listed in TFRRS as Northwestern team in the descending order list. This isn't controversial. The school pays for the coach and the facilities and the doctor and the therapist and the travel and the food and everything else involved.

I did see some Nerdwestern athletes running at an outdoor meet this year, so they do run some meets in school gear at least unofficially. Definitely not conference or regionals though. What a joke.

Some? They ran 12 meets this year including UW, BU, Meyo, Drake, Bryan Clay, Mt. SAC, and Raleigh Relays. Is there another team who competed in more big meets?

Not unofficial. They are all official, in gear, paid for, and in TFRRS as the Northwestern team.