Is D1 doable?

UW Lacrosse is faster than 95% of D1 schools and has 15,000 students. Schools size doesn't dictate division. Furman is tiny. Duke is tiny.

Why are you asking if you can go d1? You can't go d1 if you don't reach out to any coaches, put yourself out there and make it known what you can contribute to the team. No excuses about why your times aren't quite where they need to be, just keep it positive. It's good to open contact if you improve in the future too.

With 18:40 and 5:20 mile the answer is probably not, but you don't really know until you reach out. Also as a junior you still have a lot of time to drop times this year for senior year. If you really want to go d1 then you need to get your training together and put some good mileage in over the next year. If you can drop your 5k time by 40 seconds and be in the 17s then it would look much likely, and this honestly isn't very hard to do in a year you just need to run more and smarter. Your mile time needs to come down too.

If you want any training plan help then let me know what you currently do and I am happy to help.

please I’ll be willing to contact you. the thing is that I am always willing to run more and work harder but idk. My coach has me seeing a sports psychologist bc I do all the training.

D3 schools can be great places for student athletes even though they're smaller. Williams has only about 2000 people but always has a very good team. And almost all good colleges have under 10000 undergrads.

What are your grades / test scores?

Her 3200 looks like the best time to me.

Try going to some of these universities in person. Many times I have my athletes walk into the athletic facilities and find the track and field offices. Demand an interview. Don't leave until you can negotiate any kind of money, or the very least a spot on the roster. Coaches love confidence and determination from their athletes. My kid will be doing this next year for his junior year of high school.

Just reach out to the coaches. They are not gonna look poorly on you for reaching out. I would look at state schools if you want a big school experience, there are a number with mediocre D1 teams that would take a girl with an 11:18 3200 and some decent XC results. You still have plenty of time to improve your times as well, I was still getting new offers through November of my senior year. Sub-11:00 would look pretty nice.

Terrible advice. You will turn most coaches off with that attitude.

No one dreams of going to UW Lacrosse GTFU.

Then why are they the best team in D3 and better than 95% of D1 teams? Is somebody holding a gun the heads of the kids?

i'd look like patriot league or the I-AA ("FCS") type conferences. patriot league has some good northeastern academic schools and kind of overlaps with D3 in quality. and some of the schools seem to have times where a 5:20 is solid there. there are other FCS conferences probably similar in sports but weaker academics.

your times are such that if you pick the right D1 you could be solidly on the roster as opposed to a precarious tryout walkon. but that's not going to change what happens when you meet up with better distance programs at meets. which, my pro D3 comments would be in an ok D3 conference you maybe score points with that mile time. and be 10-15 seconds off nationals. or you can be 20-30+ seconds off the pace at every race but solidly on that D1 team. do i want D1 or do i want to actually compete.

that and if you are picky there are a few high quality big student body D3s with good academics, johns hopkins, UC santa cruz, NYU, etc. setting aside the wisconsin-_____ schools.

to me it's a wiring question, some folks want small fish big pond, some big fish smaller pond. i think there is a D1 path for you, if you research.

look on TFRRS. they have about every meet a team does. they have every time the runners make. you can then compare what you offer. i suggest patriot league.

D1 has a lot of slow teams when you get out of the power 5. I would be surprised if she could find a coach thrilled to have her. Something like American East for example.

Please don't do this lol

Just email any school you're interested in and ask what you need to do to make the team. Keep your grades up. You're already fast enough to make a D1 roster at a lot of schools if you're willing to be flexible. I've seen women with your marks make big 10 rosters (hint, the ones who let 40+ on their team). Every school is different, even in D1. Don't let.anyone tell you you aren't fast enough because that's simply false.

I think you can still improve; I took almost 28 seconds (27.5 s ) off my 1600m time PR in between junior and senior year, then almost won the state meet w that new time. sooooo, if you're still relatively new to the sport - improvement isn't always EVEN from year to year. As a female athlete, I improved a lot between freshman and sophomore year, and then again between junior and senior year. but my improvements btwn sophomore and junior year weren't as dramatic.

as others have said, your 3200m time is probs most impressive. Distance training BUILDS; you might feel like you're barely improving one season, and then the next season, BAM. huge jump. I think what helped improve my time(s) senior year, I was healthy and I lifted weights over the winter. Also, I was able to train year 'round since I was injury-free. I hope that helps. Good luck!

It's just the opposite. Coaches absolutely do not like unannounced visits and they will not discuss money, roster spots, or any other substantive matters on such an impromptu visit.

my suggestion for students your age is think about what do i want to major in. where in the country would i like to go to school. double check do they have a track program you might make. list up a bunch of schools with maybe even some variety. this is bigger. this is more medium. this is coastal. this is city. this is rural. this is a private super serious school. this is a big state school. this is more granola but good. this is religious. pick some. do some unofficial visits. ok, now that i am here, i really want a big state school in a city. or whatever the truth works out.

build a list of a few dozen schools that make sense and as of this summer, when TF is over, start sending out feelers to the list. i wouldn't bother now because you might get faster before the season ends. and you want to put your best initial face forward.

even if you have some favorites, do not narrow down until much later in the process. you will find out some schools you like just don't care, or at least don't want you for sports. you will be surprised how eagerly some schools are interested that seemed like a reach. coaches may come up. your parents may suggest schools. IMO until application time arrives, you don't have to decide, let the flowers bloom, and let the vibes you get from the visits and the contacts push it in a direction.

just avoid the mistake a bunch of kids on here make where they are obsessed with x, and eventually with walking on at x, x doesn't care they exist, and it's spring and they have left themselves no other choice. often enough it sounds like dad went to x. but if you want track and x doesn't care, x shouldn't even be a finalist. if they are telling you no before you apply, save the stamp or the upload effort.

If you want to get reasonable idea about whether you have times that would get you into teams at a particular school without talking to coaches the best way is to go to the athletic websites of schools you're considering. They all post meet results and you can see how those times compare to what you've done. There is also usually a roster where you can click on each athlete and see what sorts of times each has done. I am pretty sure I've seen schools where there are people with times comparable to yours even in D1.

But if the big reason you want to go to D1 is because you don't want to go to a small school you should know that there are plenty of schools in D2 whose enrollments are much bigger than 2,000 plus and even a fair few D3 schools that are much bigger than 2,000. There are D3 schools with enrollments well into five digit enrollments.

You can definitely run for a d1 school if that is what you want. There are plenty of bad d1 schools that would love to have you. I coach a girl who has run 5:20 and 11:11 and she is going to go to a d1 school to run next year. I would have preferred that she go to a d2 school but she only cared about being able to say she was d1. I think you should consider a d2 school to be honest.

There are hundreds of D1 girls in that range. It doesn't seem to drop off until the 5:30/11:45 range. Of course not a Top 30 program and maybe not in the Top 7.