In three years of high school track and x-country I'm aware of only one person(male or female) other than myself who went on to run in college. And that person ran only one year in college.
Do I win?
Percent of your High School's XC Top 7 who continued to run in college?
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#1 - yes
#2 - yes
#3 - yes
#4 - no
#5 - yes
#6 - no
#7 - no
if we count everyone from when I was in high school and not just my senior year, we have 14 guys and like 8 girls -
1- yes, d1 made significant xc contributions at conference level
2- yes, walked on 2 years to d1
3- yes, d2 small conference champ
4-no
5-dabbled for a week or so
6-no
7-wound up being really good at crew -
1: College of New Jersey (D3)
2: Went to college abroad but didn't run
3: Elizabethtown College (D3)
4: Carnegie Mellon (D3)
5: Millersville (D2), then transferred to NYU (D3)
6: York College (D3)
7: Never went to college
So 5/7, all eventually D3, not too bad. -
senior yr: top 5 and #7 were all seniors
1. yes-D1 (28:30 guy ended up going pro)
2. yes-D1 (had decent ncaa career in 1500)
3. yes-D3 (ran good for D3 but unfortunately injured a lot)
4. yes-JUCO (solid 1500 guy)
5. yes-D3 (ran solid steeples/1500 on very good team)
6. no-D3 pole vaulter jumped 17'
7. no
we won state as frosh with #1,3,4 who were 4th, 5th, 6th men at that time. 2nd place as sophs, our class led team from this point on. 1st as juniors. 2nd as seniors. -
1: No
2: Me, D3
3: D1 (graduating this year)
4: 1 year at D1
5: D1 (graduating this year)
6: No (D1 wrestler)
7: D3 -
My team won an XC state title my junior year and I can barely remember which seven runners we had at that point. From that group:
#1 Quit after a couple weeks at a D3 school, won a national title in rowing
#2 Ran for an Ivy
#3 Quit after junior year. Could run 55.0 in the 400 (a girl) and was probably the most talented runner on our team but didn't like to train
#4 Didn't run
#5 Ran D3
#6 Didn't run
#7 Didn't run -
#1- no
#2 - D3 xc and track
#3 - no
#4 - D3 track
#5 - D3 track and xc then transferred D1 no more
#6 - D1 track
#7 - D3 xc and track
#8 - D3 xc and track -
#1- yes, 4 years at DI
#2- yes, 4 years at DI (3.43 1500)
#3- yes, 3 years at Div I
#4- yes, 4 years Div I(Am record holder Dmed, penn relays 4x8 champ)
#5- no, swam for Div III
#6- yes, one year at Div I
#7- no, never went to college
****your mom goes to college
****suck it, edmond ;) -
Won the state championship in Indiana.
#1 - DI
#2 - DI
#3 - DI
#4 - DI
#5 - none
#6 - DII
#7 - none -
I don't really know b/c I wasn't on the cc team, but I think about 2 or 3 might have run some d3.
i went from other sports to d1 running. 4 years, did well. -
The times mentioned were high school times. You can check them out on the top high school milers list - and even figure out which team it was. We were in the 70's viewed as one of the better teams of the era. Our number #1 guy ran a 4:10 mile as a soph - made us all believe.
Four of the top five were very serious students - top 1% types - we all went on to professional careers which was not surprising given the nature of the town (although my brother and I were poor, the town was not and sent many on to the Ivy League, etc.).
In retrospect, we were all reasonably talented runners - but for the most part, we were good athletes that could have played other varsity sports - the golden age, so to speak, simply caused us to be interested in running. -
#1 Division 1 XC + Track
#2 Division 1 XC + Track
#3 Division 1 XC + Track (quit after a year)
#4 nope
#5 Division 2 Track
#6 nope
#7 nope -
#1-Yes John Trautmann Olympian-Georgtown
#2-D1 Iona
#3-Quit after a week
#4-No
#5-Ran D3 for one season X-C
#6-NAIA
#7-D1 then transferred to a great D3 (was only a Fr. this year and became a great HS runner thereafter).
I'll count 4 of 7 for 58% -
Senior year:
#1 D1
#2 no
#3 D1
#4 D1
#5 D1
#6 no
#7 D3
#2 wasn't interested, #6 went on to pursue academics at Notre Dame. -
My HS CC coach coached from 1975-2003, then turned the job over to his son. He says, since 1975, I am the only male or female to run 4 years in college (D3). Another guy ran a couple years of D3 and was kicked off the team for behavior. 2 guys ran one year of very low level D1 and quit.
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a little background wrote:
The times mentioned were high school times. You can check them out on the top high school milers list - and even figure out which team it was. We were in the 70's viewed as one of the better teams of the era. Our number #1 guy ran a 4:10 mile as a soph - made us all believe.
Four of the top five were very serious students - top 1% types - we all went on to professional careers which was not surprising given the nature of the town (although my brother and I were poor, the town was not and sent many on to the Ivy League, etc.).
In retrospect, we were all reasonably talented runners - but for the most part, we were good athletes that could have played other varsity sports - the golden age, so to speak, simply caused us to be interested in running.
Hammond, Indiana...Rudy Chapa, et. all -
kinda but really not smart wrote:
#6 went on to pursue academics at Notre Dame.
as if that can't be done along with running.
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1- D3
2- D1
3- Chose not to run
4- D3
5- D1
6- D3
7- Possibly poor D1 school (Not graduated yet)
All of the D3 schools would beat the D1 schools.
So either 5 or 6 of 7 and one who could have run but decided not to. Each had run either sub 9:45 or sub 4:30 by senior year except #7. -
1 - D3
2 - Army biathlon team
3 - Nope
4 - D3 long jumper
5 - D3
6 - D3
7 - Nope