What does it take to run in college?

your times are basically D3. you could research and there are a small handful of horrible D1 and D2 you could maybe run for, but then your D1 and you get destroyed at the actual meets by both D1s and even the good D2 and D3s. so it's do you want to "say" you ran D1.

your times are like mediocre-to-bad D3 honestly. but if you go D3 a lot of schools are no-cut and take anyone, and the times are a little slower where you won't just get destroyed. some D3s do cut so be careful.

do your research. look at schools with what you want to major in. look up the TFRRS of the schools that interest you -- they post race times. you can get a sense how fast they run, team average, how many runners go to meets, where you would fit in.

Generally faster than that. figure that if you are not even the fastest guy on your team, you couldnt qualify for sectionals, or state, you are not good enough to run in college.

with your times honestly i would work backwards. i would like to go to ________ schools, couple dozen. then look for ones from the list where you might be able to run. you aren't running in the olympics. you're gonna be a [whatever your major prepares for.]. so pick school for that and sports, if any, is frosting.

There are plenty of D2 and D3 schools with good coaches that will take you and chances are you improve a lot on that time before you even head into the fall freshman year.

Not gonna lie D1 will be tough, but there are some D1 schools that people never hear about because they are not very good that will take you too, just not very many.

Don’t listen to naysayers saying you can’t run in college though. If you increase the mileage and learn everything you can about the sport, and how to improve you will get a lot better. almost every runner your age gets better anyway, no matter what they do, as long as they actually train and don’t go off joining frat life lol

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There are good academic schools that are D3 and allow everyone to join the team as long as you don't skip practice.

That being said, do not think of yourself as a D3 runner if you want to reach your genetic potential. Ignore D3 teammates who call you a try-hard. Build up your volume so that you're training like the best. Have confidence in every foot-strike, every mile, every rep.

Decent D3 runners can become highly respectable post-college. The journey of running is very long and does not end when you're 22 unless you decide that it does.

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Use runcruit.com to get a general idea of where you stand. Its not perfect, but it can give you ballpark ideas of what your options are. And don't forget about NJCAA (juco) schools. Ask Fred Kerley - a juco walk on. But like someone else said, make sure you are paying attention to your major first. Running second. Good luck.

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Is run recruit at all accurate? I had no idea how low the bar for walking on to a bad college team really is if so. Even if the 1600 times are correct within 10 seconds it's crazy how low the bar is.

You should run for a club team at whatever school you want to go to. I'm not trying to crap on you but 18:34 is a slow D3-NAIA type of time. Why not go to a larger school and run for their club team?

He really isn’t fast enough for D-Any thing. He needs to improve a couple of minutes before considering going out for a college team. Otherwise, it will be a miserable experience.

No. It lists the slowest person in every event. If a guy ran 9:00 f9r 3200 but ram some 8000s.in 2:01, the site will say that 2:01 gets on the team when it may take 1:52.

So basically a 3000 guy's 800 time can get included as the 800 time "required" to make the team if 800 is your main event?