Just email the coaches and ask if they have tryouts, I think most do. I wasn't recruited for my school but emailed the coach asking about tryouts. Ours was an 800 TT and I impressed enough to earn a spot. Going into my senior year now and they haven't kicked me yet lol.
I can tell that few posters have real.life experience with D1 teams. I have been coaching a very good high school team for 20 years. I have several D1 runners every year. They contact 20-30 schools where they will be an average runner on the team on day 1. They typically receive responses from 25% of the schools. Now imagine if they aren't good enough to be a contributor and the send the coach a note asking about tryouts.
Yes. I have had guys that fast go D3 because they couldn't find a D1 home. Had a girl run 4:54 this year after running 5:01 junior year heading to our state school but not running.
I worked at a few different schools each with their own walk-on process. In my experience try outs are a soft way of saying no. Especially for distance runners. Keep in mine if they add you to the roster you then count as 3 male athletes for the university (cross, indoor, outdoor)
We could not add a male from tryouts without first adding two women.
Mens teams are getting squeezed to a minimum at most mid majors. If you can’t get on the team still run and train, try to find a new home if it is important to you
Just email the coaches and ask if they have tryouts, I think most do. I wasn't recruited for my school but emailed the coach asking about tryouts. Ours was an 800 TT and I impressed enough to earn a spot. Going into my senior year now and they haven't kicked me yet lol.
Give me a break. XC/Track coaches don't need a tryout to see if you are any good. This isn't basketball where they want to see your skills.
Either you've already run a fast enough time to get on the team, or you haven't. No time trial needed.
Lots of D1 coaches egos are too big to allow walkons or entertain people who can’t provide immediate impact. Good news is you don’t want to train for them since they don’t believe in individuality or deviating from their ideal training methods.
I went to a D3 school then transferred. I was on no one's radar. I called the coaches at my top academic choices. Most had no interest. One said I could walk on, I went there.
Just email the coaches and ask if they have tryouts, I think most do. I wasn't recruited for my school but emailed the coach asking about tryouts. Ours was an 800 TT and I impressed enough to earn a spot. Going into my senior year now and they haven't kicked me yet lol.
Give me a break. XC/Track coaches don't need a tryout to see if you are any good. This isn't basketball where they want to see your skills.
Either you've already run a fast enough time to get on the team, or you haven't. No time trial needed.
One coach (his first name rhymes with Jolly, last name is like a counter that measures radiation) told me I had to run a two mile time trial in 9:20 on day one of practice. Admittedly, this was probably meant to make me go away rather than a real test since it was quicker than my PR and at the time and quicker than half of his recruited athletes.
Every D3 runner is a walkon. You aren't making sense. You contradicted your own post telling him to ask for a tryout because you confirmed that most D1 coaches don't even respond.
Give me a break. XC/Track coaches don't need a tryout to see if you are any good. This isn't basketball where they want to see your skills.
Either you've already run a fast enough time to get on the team, or you haven't. No time trial needed.
One coach (his first name rhymes with Jolly, last name is like a counter that measures radiation) told me I had to run a two mile time trial in 9:20 on day one of practice. Admittedly, this was probably meant to make me go away rather than a real test since it was quicker than my PR and at the time and quicker than half of his recruited athletes.
I had a d1 coach require a time that would have put me in the top 5 in order to walk on. A d3 coach listed a try out on the first day of classes where I'd need to run a time that was right in line with my 5k xc pr. The second seemed fair, but I just went to another school where the coach said I could walk on. Why chance it.
tbh I'd only chance it because I got time, and I got dreams. First 5k in sophomore year of HS was 42 minutes and even just last year I was at 18:07. Right now I can run 15:42. I'd say I got a lot of potential left.
Just email the coaches and ask if they have tryouts, I think most do. I wasn't recruited for my school but emailed the coach asking about tryouts. Ours was an 800 TT and I impressed enough to earn a spot. Going into my senior year now and they haven't kicked me yet lol.
Give me a break. XC/Track coaches don't need a tryout to see if you are any good. This isn't basketball where they want to see your skills.
Either you've already run a fast enough time to get on the team, or you haven't. No time trial needed.
Didn't know every runner peaks in high school. My school didn't host tryouts my freshman year due to covid. When I ran the tryout my sophmore year I ran a 5 second pr in the 800 which the coach would have never known about if I had not tried out. Sure this isn't everyone's case but it still shows why schools would still host. Also, the tryouts covered all events not just distance.
You don't seem to understand what doping is. Every runner on every roster in the SEC is on a website. Telling us which team you ran for or even telling us who you are does not provide us with any details not publicly avlalable. Not telling us the team merely indicates that your posts are not factual.