Looking For a D1 scholarship

sorry i mean i will be 19 at the start of next year

Do you Greg Lautenslager?

i'm not sure what that means but it'd be good to get some serious answers please

Just out of highschool wrote:

Hi guys i'm 19 and i've been looking around and thinking that i may start college at the start of 2009 (i'm from new zealand). I'd like to go to a pretty good school, what kind of scholarship could i get with these times?

1500- 3.56

3000- 8.24

5000- 14.42

10k- 30.48

I have pretty good range and i think i'd be pretty useful to a D1 school in track and xc.

cheers

To be honest, it would vary dramatically. There are a wide range of division I schools, expectations and resources. I would say you are probably looking at somewhere between 25% and 75% athletic scholarship, depending on the school. Maybe less than 25% at a major Pac-10, Big-10, SEC level school.

those were close to my PR's and I got 90% at a big 12 school

what does 90% mean, like how much would i get. how much was it costing you to live at college at the time. thanks mate

Look at PC. There are a lot of Kiwis there. Also Stonehill has a few. Your 3k time is pretty phenomenal for a high schooler. Did you run that at 18? If so, you could get a full ride at a lot of places. My advice however is to stick to where they are now. I think Western had a few as well. Email the coaches and you will most likely get a response.

College coaches cannot recruit in a public forum. Provide a means to contact you privately and you may hear from some.

hey, you're times are great and I'm sure you can improve upon those further with a good coach and 4 years for you. The only problem would be to find a school that interested you geographically, academically and athletically. Also you would need to find a school that has enough money to fork over for a foreigner. The west coast is probably going to be your best choice for location since none of the good schools are that far from the ocean. The bigger names would be Oregon and Washington (if you can put up with rain 80% of the year) for up north. The California schools worth looking at would be Stanford, UC Berkeley (also known as Cal), UCLA, UCSB and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

The last two schools are going to be a little more difficult to deal with since neither has that much money in their track and field department. Also, all of the California schools are ranked highly academically in the world so you can't miss with any.

If you did want to see "real" America and move to the midwest and not worry too much about education just look at the NCAA Championship results from last year and that will help you out. Colorado, Oklahoma State, Wisconsin are all good choices for running. Though academically you can also look to Notre Dame.

Just wanted to throw out some options for ya!

Good luck, and hope to see a kiwi running fast for the west coast possibly!

thanks for that advice. itd be great to go to a school like oregon or stanford with all the history that is associated with a place like that. thanks, please keep the advice coming

Just out of highschool wrote:

Hi guys i'm 19 and i've been looking around and thinking that i may start college at the start of 2009 (i'm from new zealand). I'd like to go to a pretty good school, what kind of scholarship could i get with these times?

1500- 3.56

3000- 8.24

5000- 14.42

10k- 30.48

I have pretty good range and i think i'd be pretty useful to a D1 school in track and xc.

cheers

It is not rocket science for someone like you; just go on

for all you need to know (hell, college websites even posted there).

Just out of highschool wrote:

Hi guys i'm 19 and i've been looking around and thinking that i may start college at the start of 2009 (i'm from new zealand). I'd like to go to a pretty good school, what kind of scholarship could i get with these times?

1500- 3.56

3000- 8.24

5000- 14.42

10k- 30.48

I have pretty good range and i think i'd be pretty useful to a D1 school in track and xc.

cheers

It seems odd that your about a 9 minute two miler but you only have 3:56 1500 meter speed. Anyone I know who runs an 8:24 4k would be at least a 14:30 guy for 5k too. So you have ran all these times in new zealand? for high school or at a college?

haha I've never actually ran those times or anything close to it. I'm not even from New Zealand, just New Jersey. lol I love wasting people's time.

curiousguy wrote:

Just out of highschool wrote:

Hi guys i'm 19 and i've been looking around and thinking that i may start college at the start of 2009 (i'm from new zealand). I'd like to go to a pretty good school, what kind of scholarship could i get with these times?

1500- 3.56

3000- 8.24

5000- 14.42

10k- 30.48

I have pretty good range and i think i'd be pretty useful to a D1 school in track and xc.

cheers

It seems odd that your about a 9 minute two miler but you only have 3:56 1500 meter speed. Anyone I know who runs an 8:24 4k would be at least a 14:30 guy for 5k too. So you have ran all these times in new zealand? for high school or at a college?

Anyone you know who runs an 8:24 4K would obviously be able to run 14:30 5k but I doubt you know anyone who runs 4k that fast.

just for the record the last two posts were not me. i guess i should post under a registered name so idiots can't do that. Anyway i am from new zealand (auckland). I ran these times at various stages of 2007 and early 2008 (which is when our track season is). Difference in standards of pb's can only be accounted to the fact that i ran some of them (for instance 3/5km) 5 months apart.

thanks to those who wrote back seriously.