NCR wrote:
Most college coaches do not recruit. They look at results, send a letter.
If you want to be recruited you need to call the coach and be proactive.
FWIW, when I was at last year's FL West regional, I spotted coaches from Harvard, U of San Francisco, LMU and Oregon. Those were the ones I noticed and I'm sure others were in attendance...
Footlocker is the Olympics of American High School Cross Country racing and NXN doens't matter to anyone but high school coaches who are stuck and can't get a college gig.
I think the Original Poster is Julie Macedo. Since Delaware is the only state that has never had a FL qualifier and your team isn't going to qualify, go the NE regional at VCP for Footlocker. You go gurl!!!
Repaired wrote:
Footlocker is the Olympics of American High School Cross Country racing and NXN doens't matter to anyone but high school coaches who are stuck and can't get a college gig.
Take another look at the results from NXN and tell me that's the case.
NXN was better on both sides than FLN was last year (though very close on the girls side), and FLN was only marginally better in previous years...
not bad for what's essentially a three year old national individual championship that is challenging (and overtaking) the previous standard.
Both are most definitely quality fields and deserving of "national championship" status. Those that claim Footlocker is the only one that matters either has their heads buried in the sand, or is so biased their opinion doesn't really even matter. If a kid beats Lukas at either FLN or NXN last year, they'd get all the scholarships they could dream about. And likely, if a kid were to do so by the same margin at both races, the NXN race would be viewed as better: it's in a situation more similar to what would be seen on the collegiate level (NXN comes first, so there would be less excuses of LZ being tired or jet-lag, not an individuals-only meet; neither course is quite like Terre Haute). Likewise, if you considered the caliber of athletes in the top 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25... NXN was just as good if not better last year, and very similar the two years before.
What in the World wrote:
I think the Original Poster is Julie Macedo. Since Delaware is the only state that has never had a FL qualifier and your team isn't going to qualify, go the NE regional at VCP for Footlocker. You go gurl!!!
Great advice...except that small issue of going to the wrong venue for the FLNE Qualifier - it's at Sunken Meadow again this year due to the construction on the VCP flats.
That, and the fact that the OP states she's from the Midwest.
My guess;
Athlete Name: Taylor Manett (Rockford, MI)
2011 Cross Country
2011-09-24
G-5k_XC
17:23.70
MI#3 Eagle Div
Cougar Falcon Invitational(#1)
Showing up to the national championship is not good "recruiting." These kids are the top 40 in the nation... Maybe 20-30 are Seniors. Do you know how heavily a top 20-30 player in football gets recruited. I wonder how many of these kids gets a visit from the head coach (or any coach for that matter)?
Yes XC is different, all I am saying is that a lot of coaches don't really put in the effort. Some (as was noted)do, and those are the programs that are building.