How in the world does the NCAA allow 28 year olds?

Please list the ages.

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! What a nightmare. That's significantly older than the average person starting at university.

The average was 23. That is the age of a regular 5th year senior in college. So if runners peak at 23, why do care about 28 year olds?

Runners do not peak at 23. Try again.

You mean ending at university

List the top 10 all-time marks and you will see that your feelings don't trump facts.

Jakob I peaked at 23. The thread says he will never pr again. Do you not read letsrun....

Solomon entered in Boston 5k this weekend. D1 5k record on alert?

My kid is in college and just told me the team would be adding a 31 year old woman from Kenya (transfer via Texas). This Kenyan will now be the number one runner at the school. That is not what college cross country use to be like... team building, personal growth, life-long friendships, etc.

Now it is about NILs and portal transfers.

this has been happening since the 80s, there's just more opportunities for east Africans to come to the states with technology its a lot easier for a coach from a no name school to get in contact and vise versa then in the 80s, but its not a new concept. this might be a crazy concept for someone like you, but someone else's age background, and where they came from doesn't mean you cant form a bond and be part of a team with them, there's probably a lot of life advice your daughter can learn from this transfer since you cant teach the value of different life experiences,

It has been that way for a Long time Henry Rono ran 6the 3000, 5000, 10000 and Steeple World Records in 1978 While in College and he had a Teammate who ran a 27:30 World 10000 Record (Maybe his name was Samson Kimombwa and another Exceptional Kenyan Runner, Then UTEP had th Great Teams Of Nyambui, Musyoki, Shahanga, many more.

Who are these foreign athletes coming and getting developed in America, then stealing podium spots from us in WCs/Olympics? Josh Kerr? Geordie Beamish? Where is the uproar over them? Why is it when noname Kenyans start coming over you get upset, but when (white) literal World Champions who got scholarships to compete in the NCAA come over, no one is complaining?

If you want to set a hard cap of 24-26 years old for the NCAA, I'll support it 100%. But quit it with the whining over black foreign athletes (who, btw, aren't winning NCAAs, nor stealing WC/Oly podium spots. Habtom Samuel won the 10k last year because the best Americans didn't run it), if you're not gonna be complaining the same when white foreign athletes do the same thing and are more successful. And besides, Americans have the mile, 3k, 5k, and 10k NCAA records. 3 Americans who grew up in Washington won the last 5 1500/mile titles. BYU won NCAA XC against a bunch of foreign runners with a whole team of kids from Utah.

I am so tired of the crying about black foreign athletes coming into the NCAA, before inevitably US home grown runners win NCAAs anyway. Make a thread when all the foreign athletes in the NCAA combine for the number of titles Cheserek won each year.

This is a silly question. If you have eligibility you can participate. There are many people that don't go to school right after high school and take some time to decide what they want to be. I was 25 myself. If a 40 year old wants to go to school and compete as long as they make the team they should be allowed.

And what about other sports. If a 28 year old wants to try out for football or rowing should they not be allowed if they still have eligibility?

What if your kids tried making lifelong friends with someone who was different from them? I bet you they'd have a lot more personal growth, and learn a lot more, by befriending an older woman from Kenya than by befriending the 10th person who grew up an hour away from them and is basically the same age. A big part of college is meeting people with different backgrounds.

For those of us who weren't fast enough to run for the college we went to (believe it or not, we exist too), there are other options for running socially/competitively. It's certainly not the same as the NCAA, but maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing to have the NCAA to develop our top talent into the best athletes in the world, and begin making running clubs a more serious thing for casual runners like they are in some other countries. For those of us not fast enough to run in the NCAA, or who have graduated, it would be nice to not have structured running competition end at HS or college graduation.

You know, some people are in their 20s in high school

I remember they were 40 year olds competing in NCAA as well

My son played pro soccer for 10yrs is he eligible to play in the ncaa now? Scholarship as well? But He is american, does that rule him out?

It's been happening since well before the 80s:

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