Elizabeth Leachman to Stanford

Wow, currently looking at 1 upvote and 14 downvotes. Letsrun is not loving it.

With all due respect, since when does Stanford give out full-ride athletic scholarships to athletes who haven't participated in their sport for over a year?

Far out. Stanford is a great school. I wish her great success, academically, athletically, and professionally.

Does it say she received a full athletic scholarship from Stanford? I'm happy for her and at the very least she'll earn a top notch education. Hopefully she can get healthy again and get back to running strong. She seems to be very humble from every interview I've seen of her. Several of my family members have gone to Stanford and it's absolutely beautiful out there. Congratulations!!!

I have a feeling that the majority of the downvotes are from Barrett Dahl.

This young lady did not run in 1 single track meet last spring, and did not run in 1 single cross country meet this fall. As a parent of another teenage female who does NXN in Portland, you cant sit here and tell me this is fair. I want to know who is pulling the strings. Next fall, this same young lady will probably still be claiming she has an "extended illness".

Coaches can allocate scholarships however they want.

You sound like a bitter baby crying about what is or isn’t “fair.”

its risk vs reward for stanford. If she finds her previous form again she has talent that few if any in her class can match. If she doesn't then stanford is ok with the loss. Even if she hasn't run her upside is viewed as miles better than 99.5% of people lining up at NXN.

No one said she got a "full-ride athletic scholarship". You just made that up. Learn to read before you post.

Letsrun is fine with it. It's just crazy lying totally insane fake coach Barrett Dahl who got beat up by a White House staffer that has a problem with it. He's using a VPN to downvote a bunch of times.

She got injured so therefore she shouldn't get recruited? Have you ever watched any sport ever? They are taking a chance that she gets healthy and contributes to the team. No one is pulling the strings, they just recruited an athlete who has been injured.

"Difficult academics". It's Stanford, not MIT (or even Berkeley). Their average GPA is basically 3.8. Of course, they admit a lot of very smart people, but they also admit a lot of (just normally) smart people with good work ethic. And the traits needed to run well often carry over to the classroom as well

people don't realize that non-STEM classes at most top schools aren't that hard. If you're at Stanford, major in economics, don't work too hard, and get basically any business-related job you want.