Holy crap! Phoebe Wright was a walk-on and has won an NCAA title. Who else has done this?

jero. wrote:

Obviously running 2:00 three years after a 2:15 HS PB is astounding, but 2:15 in HS would have earned her a scholarship at many DI schools. At a school like Tennessee 2:15 probably won't earn you a scholarship, but I assume Phoebe chose on her own to attend for academic or athletic reasons no matter of financial assistance. I'll bet money she had scholarship options. By any means, she's been impressive as a collegiate runner.

I agree.....this is very true.

as far as im concerned you aren't an Olympian unless you make it to the finals

Tell that to Olympic Rob's tat!

this is the best thread ever wrote:as far as im concerned you aren't an Olympian unless you make it to the finals

As far as I'm concerned, you aren't a moron unless you make statements such as the one quoted above.

Wright planned on attending Colorado University, but her scholarship was messed up. This happened in the spring of her senior year in high school. So her high school coach called Coach Clark of UT and convinced him of Wright's talent and potential. Coach Clark let her walk on the team and soon found out what a gem he had received.

Obviously running 2:00 three years after a 2:15 HS PB is astounding, but 2:15 in HS would have earned her a scholarship at many DI schools. At a school like Tennessee 2:15 probably won't earn you a scholarship, but I assume Phoebe chose on her own to attend for academic or athletic reasons no matter of financial assistance. I'll bet money she had scholarship options. By any means, she's been impressive as a collegiate runner.[/quote]

I agree.....this is very true.[/quote]

multiple arkansas alumni...

So there was discussion of her running before attending the school.

dreams do become reality wrote:

Some good responses on this. Just curious about coaches who would recruit athletes without offering them any assistance. Does this happen a lot? Do they pretty much tell these athletes that they "might" get something down the road if they perform well? How does that work?

Recruitment without any type of scholarship is not that uncommon. When all the scholarship money is already tied up (or when there is no scholarship money like in Ivies), coaches just lure kids by virtually guaranteeing admission into the school.

This type of recruitment is most common at prestigious universities and cases in which money is not an issue for athletes, both for obvious reasons.

joe roberts wrote:

josh mcadams went to belmont university right out of high school before heading out on his mission. he was a scholarship athlete at belmont. after that he went to byu. so he was not really a 'walk-on' but rather a 'transfer'.

Yes, he was a "transfer" but he was transferring to a much better team so he still had to try out for team and didn't get a locker and was given "we'll see what happens" status and no scholarship. I think that's still a walk-on.