Walk-on Standards at Colleges - POST YOURS

could 1:56 in the 800 2:33 in the 1000 and 4:19 in the 1600 allow you to walk on to a big 10 team? Indiana or Michigan?

coach wrote:

could 1:56 in the 800 2:33 in the 1000 and 4:19 in the 1600 allow you to walk on to a big 10 team? Indiana or Michigan?

The coach will probably give a runner like that a shot, but they better Improve a lot their freshman year if they want to stay on the team.

A walk on standard at most top D1 running programs will be 1:54, 4:15-4:20, and 9:15-9:20.

OP: in case you were wondering, Carnegie Mellon and Wash U (St. Louis) are both UAA schools. From glancing at TFRRS and personal experience, a 9:45 guy should have no trouble walking on at most schools in the UAA. The only schools that might be questionable are Wash U and Brandeis. FWIW, I walked on in the UAA with a 10:40's 2-mile.

UAA wrote:

Most UAA schools will let you walk on with a 9:45. Talk to the coaches beforehand, though, so they know you're interested. You probably won't be heavily recruited, but who cares? It's DIII anyway.

I would definitely recommend talking to the coaches beforehand, wherever you might want to go. If the athletics website has a recruitment form for cross or track, fill it out. It's possible to walk on at some schools without prior coach contact, but I'd recommend seeking them out beforehand.

Arizona State University

800: 1:55

1600: 4:20

3200: 9:20

High school senior, emailed a number of coaches about this at the beginning of the year before I had picked a school. 3200 standards are..:

Wake Forest 9:30

Georgetown 9:20

UNC Chapel Hill 9:15-9:20

Davidson 9:45

George Washington technically has a tryout but any sub-10 should be able to make the cut, they aren't very good.

coach wrote:

could 1:56 in the 800 2:33 in the 1000 and 4:19 in the 1600 allow you to walk on to a big 10 team? Indiana or Michigan?

Most schools will let a 1:56/4:19 guy on their team. If you ran faster than 4:19 in high school and were not allowed, you probably are a jerk.

I'd expect someone like this to develop into a 14:40/sub 25:00 guy, which every team likes.

It all depends on how you develop. I ran 1:56 in high school, but never broke 1:53 open in college. It was sort of a bummer, but I was able to contribute here and there on relays at the conference level/ IC4As.

If you are a girl, then you basically have no walk on standard. None. I help at a D1 school in a big conference and we literally had a girl walk on after she was running by one day and saw the team practicing. Title 9 is great.

Hunted wrote:

I can't find a place online where these are posted, so I'm hoping we can get together a list of various colleges and their standards. Please post yours if they aren't already in this thread. Specific schools I'd be very happy to see walk-on distance times for:

Brown

U of Chicago

Cornell

MIT

Stanford

Wash. U in St. Louis

Penn

U of Michigan -- Ann Arbor

Columbia

Carnegie Mellon

U of Illinois -- Urbana-Champaign

Princeton

UC Berkeley

U of Washington

Penn State -- University Park

You could probably run for Chicago, washU, MIT and Carnegie Mellon as long as you are like a 10something 2miler in high school. Maybe Brown as well. Cornell maybe if you're a little faster. The rest of them you have to be pretty darn good. How good? Beats me

Aim High wrote:

If you are a girl, then you basically have no walk on standard. None. I help at a D1 school in a big conference and we literally had a girl walk on after she was running by one day and saw the team practicing. Title 9 is great.

What does Title 9 have to do with walk-ons?

really wrote:

Aim High wrote:

If you are a girl, then you basically have no walk on standard. None. I help at a D1 school in a big conference and we literally had a girl walk on after she was running by one day and saw the team practicing. Title 9 is great.

What does Title 9 have to do with walk-ons?

Seriously?

I know schools like Chicago, washU, MIT and Carnegie Mellon aren't that good at track but academically they are good.

So do you still have to meet their academic standard?

or will they cover some up for you?

I never broke 11min for 2miles in HS and I ended up walking on a nationally ranked D2 xc/track program. I had one of the highest GPAs on the team so I think that may have been a factor.

In your case, you had met school requirement but you didn't meet team requirement.

I'm not looking for top track teams in the country, but top academic schools.

Mmm for me, I run decently but my grades aren't superior.

Title 9 hands out scholarships to women on campus to travel to meets, get meal money, party with the team on the road, show up for a meet and scratch or dnf. My college ran ads in the school newspaper for women to be on the team. Most showed up to practice, stretched, jogged a couple of miles on the track and went home. Some gave it a good effort and actually tried, until the first real meet, got spanked by the real female athletes and dnf'd at the remaining meets.

?????????????? wrote:

really wrote:

What does Title 9 have to do with walk-ons?

Seriously?

At the University of Tennessee after the success of Walk-on Phoebe Wright -who was 5:15, 2:15.96- coming out of high school and turned into -4:30's, 1:58- they have become much more interested in all forms of walk-ons.