Hey I'm a female XCTF athlete and my times sophomore year and my junior year XC season were a pretty okay start for D3. Suffered with iron deficiency my junior year track season, the most important one, and went backwards. I was talking to top D3 schools since January (Hopkins is my dream) and now feel like I have no shot even though my iron is almost back to normal and I'm running much better. I feel like my senior year XC season will be good, and I've sent pre-reads and everything and waiting for feedback, but feel like I won't be given a shot because of my junior year track season. Idk if coaches will even care about senior year XC or if I should just give up college running dreams.
Times are 3200: 12:01 senior year 1600: 5:34 (this year despite iron issues which I lowkey was proud of) 5k: 19:52
I've also been named all-conference, gone to states and MOC for XC, and won awards like MVP, but my most important season fell short.