At a smaller crappy d1. Best bet is too go to a really solid D2. With those times some D2 teams that make nationals in cross would love to have you. Although you probably won’t get any money.
At a smaller crappy d1. Best bet is too go to a really solid D2. With those times some D2 teams that make nationals in cross would love to have you. Although you probably won’t get any money.
Pft. D3 schools are sometimes a lot better than d2 schools.
OP if i had to do it again, id walk on to a D1 school. I ran d3 and one of my biggest regrets was not running d1. (Or at least giving it a shot)
At a smaller crappy d1. Best bet is too go to a really solid D2. With those times some D2 teams that make nationals in cross would love to have you. Although you probably won’t get any money.
Pft. D3 schools are sometimes a lot better than d2 schools.
OP if i had to do it again, id walk on to a D1 school. I ran d3 and one of my biggest regrets was not running d1. (Or at least giving it a shot)
Get those times down in the meantime.
Always pushing to get better. Just wanted to get a baseline.
Working for a big outdoor season coming up. and repeating my senior year hopefully getting down into the 4:30 area
If you want to go to a D1 that is worse than most D2 schools, yes. But why other than to be a "D1 guy" would you want to go to a low level D1 school? Go D2 and be more competitive and actually get scholarship money to help with school. Great thing about this sport is times don't lie and everyone can run fast noatter the division. One my friends is a D2 guy who has run 3:59 and 7:55 for the mile and 3k, and will be in the hunt for titles because that's what competitive is in D2 now.
If you want to go D1 you really really want to be at least under 4:30 or 9:30. There are rosters you could make but unless you improve you’d be so uncompetitive that it wouldn’t be any fun. Think about the one kid at meets running a 6:00 mile. That’s how you’d be looked at with a 4:42. You really don’t want to show up to a meet with 30 guys in the mile and only 3-4 of them haven’t broken 4:30 at some point.
If D1 is a goal of yours, either get under 4:30 by senior year or go to a competitive juco where you can improve for a year or two and then transfer.
Hard truth is no, you can’t to a remotely respectable school. I had very similar stats to those (4:37/10:09/16:42) and much better grades, and I struggled to hear back from a respectable D3 school. I think a good match for you would be somewhere like Ithaca, or run on a club team if you want a big school. Best of luck
Gotta get a little faster for D1. Your endurance looks good from the 16 to 32 to 5k. I wouldn't make D1 your everything. Think about location and academics. Guys at my HS went to D3 NESCACs with similar junior year PRs. Great education + maybe more likely you'll enjoy running after college.
If you want to go to a D1 that is worse than most D2 schools, yes. But why other than to be a "D1 guy" would you want to go to a low level D1 school? Go D2 and be more competitive and actually get scholarship money to help with school. Great thing about this sport is times don't lie and everyone can run fast noatter the division. One my friends is a D2 guy who has run 3:59 and 7:55 for the mile and 3k, and will be in the hunt for titles because that's what competitive is in D2 now.
D1 is a spectrum of competition. Keep improving and there are many D1 schools whose rosters you could make as a walk on.
You won't get money. You won't make a championship qualifying team even as a walk on. But you might make the directional state school or smaller D1 private college.
That said - find the school you want to go to academically. If that is a big competitive D1 school, look to see if they have a club team. It may also be a D2 or D3 school. Plenty of opportunities to keep running.
Why go to a D3 or D2 school because of "development" when you could go D1 and have all the resources/apparel/better travel/quality teammates that would actually make your experience greater?
Most middling D1 schools would be too 10 at D2 nationals. D2 or lower is the easy way out.
Nobody cares about mid-major D1 schools where nobody can run an 8k under 26min either.
Agreed. Nobody cares about them OR D2. Did you think you had something here?
Lol!! Just responding to your silly comment that nobody cares about D2. In reality, hardly anyone cares about XC or track at all. People know about Usain Bolt. They don't know or care about Washington having over a half-dozen sub 4 miles. Most people don't care about P5 track either. So how many people actually give a crap if you go D2 or some random mediocre D1 school just to say you ran D1? So if running is important to you and want to be the best you can be choose the program you think will develop you to best potential. If running is your main deciding factor on choosing a school.