Track money mostly goes to sprinters and jumpers. Only distance runners are responding to this thread because only distance runners are on this site. Wake up people!
Track money mostly goes to sprinters and jumpers. Only distance runners are responding to this thread because only distance runners are on this site. Wake up people!
D1 (lower level D1)
3.1 / 4.0
1290 / 1600
4:28
9:56
0%
D1
2.9
48.4
46.6 (JC)
Full Ride
forthekeeeuds wrote:
Bhabbi wrote:I don't know if these answers are surprising you, but they are not surprising me. In every sports except football and basketball, there is virtually no money for male athletes. Fastest guy on our small high school team had some 'maybe' money dangled for a D2 school, but in the end got nothing and went D3 with partial academic scholarships. Don't know any others runners who had money offered at all. Another friend was good enough to be drafted in a late round in baseball, and he had college offers that were a tiny fraction of a scholarship. He ended up going to the U.S. Naval Academy, so it was irrelevant, but still.
I'm VERY surprised at how little money there is in track scholarships. I'm an old hobbyjogger so wasn't in this world when I was in HS / college but, yeah, I had no idea you guys toiled on your own dime. Props.
There's tons of money for track. Most of the posters on this site are slow hobby joggers and didn't earn any money.
Adrian Miller wrote:
This is the most depressing thread I have ever read in my life! out of all the pose I saw ONE that was an athletic full ride. Is this because of title IX or are men just disposable? so disheartening.
Probably need to be sub-4:10/9:00 to be considered for a full at a good school. I wonder what the standards are for women?
4:10 mile
9:03 3200
1:54 800
Went to the top program for about 70% scholarship. Could have gone full ride at the time anywhere else, but I wanted to win NCAA titles
NAIA
29 ACT
Mile- 4:30
3200- 9:41
5k- 15:44
8k- 26:00
75% tuition for athletics
Academic scholarships put it well over 100%
NCAA Division I
3.2
LJ - 24-4
100 - 10.63
200 - 21.30
400 - 47.32
100% Full Scholarship
D1
3200 9:23
college gpa 4.0
0%, walk on
DI- Power 5 (female)
HS GPA/ACT- 3.98/4.0 UW (w/ AP classes)/27 ACT
HS PR's:
JR year- 26.9- 200 (ran once), 57.5- 400, 2:14- 800, 5:10- 1600, 15:30- 4k XC
SR year improvements- 2:11.9 - 800, 5:09- 1600, 15:00- 4k XC
Was going to walk-on, but then got books after running the 2:11 senior year in June. Just for comparison, another girl on my team in my class had nearly identical HS PR's to me, but got 40% scholarship b/c she ran them junior year when money was still available. Got offered 80-90% scholarship b/w academics and athletics at another power 5 school (that was less good at the time) as well as a DII, but turned those down since I didn't like those schools and wanted to stay in-state.
College GPA: 3.76/4.0
College PR's: 200- 26.7 (ran once), 400- 57.2, 800- 2:11.06, 19:08- 5k Rd/19:18 XC, 23:30- 6k XC
Post college improved to 23:21 6k XC
DI
4.0/4.0 (my hs had like 10 "valedictorians" though so not that competitive)
8:46 3km
15:17 5km
(only 13th at State large school div. XC but less than 60 sec behind Rupp)
no scholarship (Ivy),
HOWEVER, thank goodness to need-based financial aid (my parents didn't make much)....
it was more affordable to go to Cornell than to go to a public state school (Oregon state) for me. Also got some lucky grants and other academic merit/scholarships to help.
D2
4.0
1:54, 4:21, 9:32, 15:52
100% free college
no bs
d1
3.3 or 3.4 uw
27act, 11xx sat
sub 855
sub 410
sub 154
100 athletic
based on your grammar I believe that it was entirely athletic
the young pope wrote:
d1
3.3 or 3.4 uw
27act, 11xx sat
sub 855
sub 410
sub 154
100 athletic
D1
GPA: 3.68
1600m: 4:22, 3200m: 9:20 5k: 15:51
1/3 tuition.
It's all about negotiation/maximizing potential.
Good thread.
But, as I read these, the thing that's missing is the school.
For example, in the DC area there are all sorts of D1 programs in terms of academics and track & field.
Top of the heap would be places like Georgetown and UVA.
Further down the pecking order would be places like George Mason, American U, etc.
There's also Norfolk State, etc.
So, saying you got 50% at Norfolk State is very different from getting 50% at G'town.
D1, top 1% of state (international), 4.22, 9.31,16.18,33.05, 100% scholarship
D3, 4.6 GPA, 16:59 5k, $0.00
Currently a junior at same school with 15:44 5k.
D1 (lower level). 4:27, 9:32, 15:50, 3.5 Gpa, $5k/ year.
Just got around to seeing this thread. There was less than 20 posts on it last time I looked. I guess this post will bring it back so this years incoming college runners can post. Have at it!