Im currently a high school senior who originally had plans on going naia or d3 in order to keep running in college but i ended up winning a full ride academic scholarship to a big 12 university. What is the best way to start a conversation with their coach on the steps to take in order to try to walk on and be at the standards the coach has?
Send and email… hey coach my name is x I will be attending x this fall and would love the opportunity to walk on or try out, would it be possible to chat about possibilities or standards. I am very excited to attend x and would love to be part of the team in any capacity. Thanks so much.
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Did Bud Fox email Gordon Gekko? If sales could be closed by email, C.E.O.s would sit in the office, fire out emails and close business deals. Corporations hire V.P. of sales, regional sales managers, district sales managers and hire thousands of salespersons for a reason. This youngster, on paper probably does not have a D-1 athletic resume. This young lad is going to have to show up in person, get by the gate keepers and get directly in a room with the head XC coach.
If on an academic scholarship and you keep up with the good grades in college, assuming you aren't just plain awful, any coach is going to love having you as you would likely help boost the team's GPA which is a big deal within the athletic department. As mentioned above, send email/call via telephone which does work, tell coach you are on full ride academic scholarship, give HS mile and two mile times and would like to walk on and run with team. You cost the program nothing and if your good enough to make the team/travel (don't have to be top 7 for this usually), all the better. GL. We had several runners who walked on at our school. They never did make a team, but we took them with us when possible and became great friends. If your HS coach as any pull, ask him/her to help.
Proftrain wrote:
If on an academic scholarship and you keep up with the good grades in college, assuming you aren't just plain awful, any coach is going to love having you as you would likely help boost the team's GPA which is a big deal within the athletic department. As mentioned above, send email/call via telephone which does work, tell coach you are on full ride academic scholarship, give HS mile and two mile times and would like to walk on and run with team. You cost the program nothing and if your good enough to make the team/travel (don't have to be top 7 for this usually), all the better. GL. We had several runners who walked on at our school. They never did make a team, but we took them with us when possible and became great friends. If your HS coach as any pull, ask him/her to help.
Many schools do have roster limits, especially on the men’s side so some teams will definitely not be able to accommodate a walk on who only helps with gpa (even though that is important).
Give the coach some shtcoins