my coach has me down to double on sat/sun. I don't want to race sat. but he said it is too late to scratch. I was thinking I could just run a lap and drop out of the first race but someone on my team said this will get me into trouble with ncaa?
my coach has me down to double on sat/sun. I don't want to race sat. but he said it is too late to scratch. I was thinking I could just run a lap and drop out of the first race but someone on my team said this will get me into trouble with ncaa?
honest effort rule. if you suck, no one will care. if you don't, expect a coach to protest. only rarely have i heard of a distance runner getting away with it.
as an aside, sack up already. this is a team sport. this whole "i don't want to race" sounds like something i heard at jv meets in high school.
If you drop out you will regret it after. Run the race, its worth it.
this is a team sport?
no buddy its not....sorry.......football=team sport....hockey=team sport......basketball=team sport.....track and cross country=individual sports
hello, conference meets this weekend. team event. time for the vast majority of athletes to earn their scholarships. if the OP thinks this weekend is about him, that's another reason to get his head out of his ass.
are scholarships earned by how well your team placed? or even by how many points you score for your team? .......no......theyre earned by time....or place....which are specific to the individual.....if you want a team sport go play something else
if you fail to complete your first event and want to do the second event, fat chance. You are DQ'D from the rest of the events you are entered in, unless there was some sort of medical reason why you couldn't complete/compete the first event.
I'm def' the type to say that track is an individual sport but you're wrong. Scholarships are earned on the potential *team* scoring power of the individual. The whole basis of athletics at the collegiate level is to promote the school name through good performance--specifically team (representative of the UNIVERSITY) success.
So nope, you're wrong.
another reason to never listen to the dopes on letsrun. of course how many points you score for the team is important. i'm not sure how your immature mind has managed to separate points for the team from individual place. a mild retard could figure out the connection there.
since you seem to need help with the big picture, athletes who sack up and double instead of trying to figure out ways to get out of it are thought more highly of by the coaching staff who, amazingly, are the ones who decide scholarships. performance at conference meets are an important component of how much an athlete gets. and, to a degree, available scholarship money is tied to how well a team does. alumni and the school take notice of teams that are good. alumni donate more money. schools pump more money into the program. especially for men's teams these days, alumni donations are essential for maintaining the full allowable scholarship complement.
come on buddy ur better than this.....i dont care how many "points" you score for a "team." this is track and field. performances are about the individual. straight up. thats it. a team sport is one where individuals work together through competition. track is not such a sport.
just because schools use a point system as some sort of gauge of success to put in the school newspaper and raise revenue does not change the nature of the sport.
dont try to change this because you were a shitty runner and tried to hang off of your "teams" success in your day.
you've made it quite clear that you don't care. simply because you don't care doesn't change the nature of the ncaa system. track may be very much an individual sport professionally but, when the money is doled out to athletes based on potential points scored and to teams through travel budget based on team performance, sorry, it's a team sport collegiately. don't tell me you've never wondered why sprinters - especially ones who can do field events - are generally the ones with the highest scholarships.
blah blah blah scholarship.....blah blah blah ncaa.....
i found you swiigs. and i know where you sleep.
farts mc10k.