Best Mid Major Schools for the 1500

Youngstown State. Great coaches

In the last full 2019 season pre-COVID, Miami (Ohio) had 3 guys under 3:45 in the 1500m. If they still have their program intact, that is a phenomenal group and system and rivals that of any P5.

https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2568.html#event13

Furman, Portland, Drake, Butler

Thanks guys. Will definitely look into Youngstown and Miami Ohio. I’ve tried to get into contact with Butler and they never answer for some reason.

Villanova, Tulsa and Washington State should be added to that mix as well.

If you have subpar times, you won't be welcomed at a good program. Consider D3 or try to walk on at your state school to save money.

nycity wrote:

In the last full 2019 season pre-COVID, Miami (Ohio) had 3 guys under 3:45 in the 1500m. If they still have their program intact, that is a phenomenal group and system and rivals that of any P5.

https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2568.html#event13

They recruited two guys who were 3:45/1:47 and 3:47/1:49 in high school…pretty easy to get guys like that to 3:44 lol. Pretty sure the third guy was 1:50 in high school as well. That’s not development that’s just recruiting.

your post is useless if you dont tell us your PRs

Why would you go to Youngstown State specifically for running, especially if you’re OOS? Same goes for Furman & others that will be mentioned. Remember OP, you’re not going to be a pro runner.

800- 1:57 (time trial)

1k- 2:31

1600: 4:18 (2:12, 2:06 splits)

3200: 9:28 (not all out running another tmrw)

U N M - New Mexico. See Olympic medalist Josh Kerr.

3 of the 5 guys that ran 3:45 or under there last year were no better than 4:13 in high school. None of those 3 were close to 1:50 in high school either. It might be time to move on from the using the Torpys as an excuse every time this school is brought up.

Easy!

Villanova

Georgetown

Princeton

Tulsa

Providence

Montana State

A few solid up & coming programs that need to sustain success but promising coaches right now

Miami (Ohio)

Drake

1500isgoated wrote:

800- 1:57 (time trial)

1k- 2:31

1600: 4:18 (2:12, 2:06 splits)

3200: 9:28 (not all out running another tmrw)

Excellent, looks like, if you train correctly, pick the right program, and get lucky, you just might have the speed to be a solid 29:00 10k guy for the right mid-major D-I team. Hell, if you really play your cards right, you might dip under 29 and get into the field of 24 at nationals, depending on the year, which region you are in and the location of the meet! You could really help the team in Cross Country too! You just need to put your head down and start grinding out the miles! Good Luck, and plug on!!!

Another quality mid-major would be Illinois State - excellent 800/1500 men most years.

This thread is dead now but if anyone still looks at it I ran 9:11 today so 17 second PR

9:11 is valid. Email a couple power 5s if u want

I was checking back on this and agree with Illinois St. They had a heck of a group in the 80's (Palumbo et all) and the indoor mile champ around 2000ish in Christian Goy. Havent heard much from them lately.

Binghamton makes great milers. Van Ingen, Garn, Holt, Schaffer, Mackay