Americans at NCAA?

Get lost.

When did NCAA sports become a USA vs the world thing?

Foreign atletes have always competed in NCAA sports. No big deal.

My family weren't American indians how about yours?

Typical lazy American. Need the work spoon-fed to you.

Age and country of Womens 1500m finals.

Lindsey Butler- 24 (USA)

Maggi Congdon (USA) 23

Mia Barnett 21 (USA)

Chloe Foerester 21 (USA)

Margo Appleton 22 (USA)

Kimberly May 22 (New Zealand)

Mena Scatchard 22 (Great Britain)

Silan Alydiz 25 (Turkey)

Sophie O’Sullivan 23 (Ireland)

Klaudia Kazimierska 23 (Poland)

Vera Sjorberg 24 (Sweden)

Salma Elbadara 20 (Morocco)

The women’s 10k was about a 50/50 split of Americans/Foreigners, too. That field looked loaded with African recruits. I remember a few years ago there would be maybe 2-3 foreign athletes in the field, but that number seems to be growing both in the races and on the track and cross country teams. I wonder if the foreign recruiting tactic is going to change with the new NCAA roster spot rules?

These athletes always yield impressive results and represent their university well, but I’d hate to see athletes from the USA lose out on Division I running opportunities.

If it's that important to you can't you do the math yourself?

Marco, I’m sorry you lost to a couple of internationals. You put up a good fight. But there’s no stopping the invasion in our country

It's not at simple as "taking taxpayer dollars". Would as many people pay to watch NCAA if it was just domestic and the performances were significantly worse?

It would make less money and result in less tax being paid back via employees etc

1) You know <800m there’s plenty of Caribbean talent. Are the coaches buy that talent too?

2) Are willing to count naturalized citizens or dual citizenship holders as Americans? How do you feel about Yared Nuguse’s citizenship? Or just the white guys?

Mia Barnett runs for Sweden now.

How about Americans just run faster?

The same level foreigners require larger scholarships than Americans.

she may choose to run for Sweden but she was born in USA right? I think the point of this thread is who comes to USA from abroad for college/college running.

Some of my aunts and uncles claim Indian—well, the name in a language I can’t find on the Net—heritage of Sioux persuasion. But Your point is well-taken. All those yobs screaming about “illegals”— including the top of the heap—are all historic immigrants, without papers. Red Cloud should have been Pres. and deport all those illegals, on rafts.

Mens 10k have to go 7? For 1st American? 100 200 400h won by foreigners? Would be interesting to see how many foreign runners in top 6 all events

M 1500 1 and 2 from USA, 3000s 1 is from USA, 5000 3, 5, 6 from USA, no?

The argument that they are bad coaches is just lazy. Part of coaching, a large part in fact is recruiting and signing talent. Also, keeping talent healthy, focused and management of talent are real metrics that can be just as important. Honestly if you take some less talented kid or someone with less experience, you can pretty much do anything and they'll show improvements, sometimes dramatically. Does that make a person a good coach? What the hell difference does it make where they are from? If you're worried about that, look at the numbers of foreigner athletes in soccer or better yet, look at the number of foreign born college professors teaching them. The numbers might astound you. If you're the boss of a company, do you recruit in local people that all don't have the talent or knowledge in the position and teach them or do you bring in qualified individuals that are already good and what you're looking for regardless of where they come from? I could give two craps where my electrician is from if they do a great job.

Foreign athlete here. It’s out of hand the number of foreign athletes across many sports.

We are funding the development of other countries Olympic teams. Many of the foreign athletes are much older and therefore stronger than their American counterpart. More and more young US high school athletes aren’t getting the chance to compete and mature through the US University system.

I competed in the 80’s was one of three foreign athletes on the team and was 18 as a freshman. I am grateful to the United States system. I live in the USA.

solution: limit the number of foreign athletes to a certain percentage of a roster. 20% is my suggestion.