Is a 2:24 800 (for women) good enough to walk-on at most D1 schools?

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2 years ago 10/25/2021 11:18am EDT

re: 1600m506pr:-/

1600m506pr:-/ wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
Another thing to consider is that even if she is allowed to walk on, a D-1 coach isn't going to be willing to pay travel expenses for a 2:24 800 runner.
My daughter could have run for several D1 schools, instead, she chose the JC route; her high school PRs were about 2:35/5:35/11:50/19:45.
She has a great coach for her and is near the front of the pack in the JC world. When she races D1 competition she gets beat by 2 minutes in a 5k.
Oh, and the team is pretty well supplied with gear and travel opportunities (4-5 overnight bus trips and one plane flight)

At SDSU there were three of us with similar abilities at 5/10K, but I was the only one to receive the honor of sharing a room with a PVer so that I could run in the MtSac relays. During his senior year at Oregon, Terry Williams ran qualifying times in the Steeple, 5000 and 10000m but he wasn't running well by the end of the season and Dellinger didn't take him to the NCAAs.

My experience is that D-1 coaches aren't going to pick up the tab for non-competitive runners.

2 years ago 10/25/2021 1:55pm EDT

re: 1600m506pr:-/

1600m506pr:-/ wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
Another thing to consider is that even if she is allowed to walk on, a D-1 coach isn't going to be willing to pay travel expenses for a 2:24 800 runner.
My daughter could have run for several D1 schools, instead, she chose the JC route; her high school PRs were about 2:35/5:35/11:50/19:45.
She has a great coach for her and is near the front of the pack in the JC world. When she races D1 competition she gets beat by 2 minutes in a 5k.
Oh, and the team is pretty well supplied with gear and travel opportunities (4-5 overnight bus trips and one plane flight)

Ok the only place she could walk on would be private schools where they are willing to find people to pay their bills? If it’s $70K to go to school they will let most walk on because they can’t find anyone, so I stand corrected.

2 years ago 10/25/2021 2:13pm EDT

re: V

V wrote:
Letsrun massively and consistently overestimates DI standards. Power 5 is a relatively small group of schools and while 2:24 may not walk-on at more than a handful of schools there, that sentiment doesn't permeate all the day down the DI ranks.
There are a lot of schools that are either enrollment driven or have a team that just isn't all that competitive. A 2:24 would be welcomed in immediately. There are entire conferences that would allow that time as a walk-on
The WAC, Sun Belt, Southland, SWAC, NEC, MEAC, MAC, CAA, and the list likely goes on of full conferences that might not have a single team that turns down a free 2:24 walk-on if they express interest and don't seem like they'll be a chore for the coach. Hell, those conferences are littered with teams that run their sprinters in XC for compliance.
You can find a home to run at. How good they are might be wide ranging.

another stellar post from v

I have told stories of kids getting money from schools in these conferences with times around 16 flat. but everybody here knows better

2 years ago 10/25/2021 2:40pm EDT

re: SDSU Aztec

SDSU Aztec wrote:
1600m506pr:-/ wrote:
My daughter could have run for several D1 schools, instead, she chose the JC route; her high school PRs were about 2:35/5:35/11:50/19:45.
She has a great coach for her and is near the front of the pack in the JC world. When she races D1 competition she gets beat by 2 minutes in a 5k.
Oh, and the team is pretty well supplied with gear and travel opportunities (4-5 overnight bus trips and one plane flight)
At SDSU there were three of us with similar abilities at 5/10K, but I was the only one to receive the honor of sharing a room with a PVer so that I could run in the MtSac relays. During his senior year at Oregon, Terry Williams ran qualifying times in the Steeple, 5000 and 10000m but he wasn't running well by the end of the season and Dellinger didn't take him to the NCAAs.
My experience is that D-1 coaches aren't going to pick up the tab for non-competitive runners.

I knew it. You are not using analysis as a researcher, coach, athletic director or sport reporter. You are going by solely what occurred at your non-flagship public university. Non-flagship public universities are budget thrift because non-flagship public universities do not have generous alumni donors &/or huge endowment. I am really reluctant to list the schools. Listing schools will place the dozens of females in let'srun cross-hairs. Eg. I named U. of Illinois-Chicago yesterday. The few female 800m runners there are now known. I most certainly can find the schools. You or other posters will move the goal post and say those universities don't count and/or say the ladies I name are not good runners. I know for certain I will be able to find d-1 universities and female 800m runners at some historically Black colleges and universities with 800m times in 2:25.xx to 2:29.xx range. I am certain we will get b.s. about said institutions not counting. Wasn't there a relay team from North Carolina A & T that did very well at NCAA recently? A lot of racist post after. Just trust you are wrong. I am choosing not to name the universities and the 800m ladies.

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