What kind of scholarship do top NCAA runners come in on?

Is it because people are afraid of losing their anonymity that they won't name the actual school they attended on this site? I'd be real interested in what schools are offering what to individuals based on their times and academic record.

For me, I was JUCO. Eastern Oklahoma State College. We got some scholarship money for track, I got s journalism scholarship for working on the school paper... and we had "turn the lights on and off" type work study jobs on campus. I refed intramurals.

Transferred to Oklahoma in the Big Eight. Walk on cross country. All I got there was a different coach each year, and a significant amount of good natured grief from the the guys on scholarship. Fortunately, I wasn't the slowest walk on . They nicknamed that guy "Grandma". His name was Art, but I never heard anyone call him that after he became "Grandma". I had a nickname as well... but I won't tell it because anonymity. One of you guys might know me. LOL.

They are lying.

I coach D1, probably would have offered him about a full. Depends on academic aid. Your kid didn't reach out to enough schools or you're lying.

Always one of these guys lying on these boards.

Kentucky. USC. ISU. Wisconsin. UNC. Those are a few. It isn't a secret. He has been discussed her previously.

The lies are always all of the people claiming to get big scholarships but won't list the school.

If you cannot get a full ride for xc/track, you aren't that good. Focus on school.

I got offered nothing but full rides, btw. Auburn among them. Better to be sensible.

Then Ramsden is also paying $90k this year. If Harvard really is needs based and Pa Ramsden is NZ High Commissioner to United Nations.

My understanding is that pays quite well.

What about the other 50 New Zealanders running in college right now? All across the conference spectrum. How much is their share of that partial scholly? I can assure you they are not all on full rides. And factor in that NZ $ is 65c to the US $.

Thoughts?

Yes she pays $90K

So much depends on the focus of the team. Are they a distance school? Is the director of track the distance coach? A full ride is reserved for big scorers. No way Valby is on a full at a school like UF for example. But the way athletic and academic is a talent.

Lol so he contacted 5 schools and gave up?

This might be fun. I coach division 1. Here are some offers I've put out. Not going to list exact PRs and not going to say which school. I will point out that regionally some of these times on paper are a little better than they sound and we develop athletes well.

9:29/4:23/1:58/15:30, xc all stater - walk on

51.2/1:53/4:18/15:50 - 25%

50.1/1:54/4:18/15:31, xc all stater - 40%

9:10/4:20/1:56, xc state champ - 45%

1:55/4:21/15:50, walk on

I don't really go above 50% on anybody male unless they're an All American or a high achiever at conference. Most kids have 4.0s and get academic aid.

I'd give a 1:47 guy a lot of money if I thought I could develop them, but even if I couldn't he'd still be a great asset to the program.

I can assure you the runners you just named are on full ride

i suspect most top runners in the ncaa don't come from "poor" families to begin with. valby doesn't strike me as a person that has had any kind of job of any kind up to this point in her life.

dude, cade flatt ran 1.46, not 1.47

He contacted many schools. Those were the ones he visited.

Those are very odd numbers becuase you can get 9:10 guys to walk-on. Your program is obvioulsy not good at all if you waster scholarships on walk-ons. Does the head coach give you 1-2 scholarships and you blow them on average runners?

I can get you 20 guys who ran faster than any of scholarship guys in your post who are happy to take much less. What school? We can help you turn your program around overnight.

Nice post!

Mr 1:47 is on here in every school thread complaining. 1:47 qualified for indoor nationals, so about 50 schools would offer this guy a full or equivalent. He must have only contacted 1 school.

I would suggest he gets in touch with Tennessee, Ole Miss, Cal Poly, Texas Tech and Texas a m.