Are you able to run at nationals if your school doesn't sponsor track?

Thats an interesting question...

I think JMU had this issue before they canned track...

calll the NCAA hotline and ask? they have an anonymous help line that'll answer all your questions

A guy from my high school got screwed by JMU. Real bummer they cut track.

Bump. I would call, but I can just ask my SID. I just figured that someone on here would know off the top of their heads.

all posters on letsrun are full ride d1 kinda guys so we would not know about this stuff.

Didn't the NCAA people give permission to Oregon State to compete at Indoor Nationals if any of them made the final cut? They had a high jumper who made the provisional mark back in February (he didn't make the top 18) who was currently a member of their football squad. I know it was reported as a front-page read on this website, so you can check that out. But I think Oregon State was alllowed to do this since they are planning on instating a track program for the 2010-2011 seasons.

Feel free to correct me if I am remembering this incorrectly.

C/M Runner wrote:

Didn't the NCAA people give permission to Oregon State to compete at Indoor Nationals if any of them made the final cut? They had a high jumper who made the provisional mark back in February (he didn't make the top 18) who was currently a member of their football squad. I know it was reported as a front-page read on this website, so you can check that out. But I think Oregon State was alllowed to do this since they are planning on instating a track program for the 2010-2011 seasons.

Feel free to correct me if I am remembering this incorrectly.

Getting closer to the answer.. that sounds promising, even if it was done because a track program was planned.

Anybody else know anything about a situation like this?

Bump.

I qualified this weekend provisionally for the 10k for DIII, but I still haven't heard word back from my SID yet. Does anyone know if I have even an outside chance of being able to go to nationals or is there no hope?

You may be able to apply for a one-time waiver.

However the rule is (not sure about DIII), that you have to have an "official" program listed with the NCAA and you have to meet the minimum participation criteria (14 people compete in four meets, etc.) in order for a person to compete at the national meet.

This was put in place at the DI and DII level so that someone couldn't just fully-fund an xc team with a few guys who are good enough to compete at track nationals. On the DI level, schools like Portland and Oklahoma State walk a fine line, but meet the criteria. Actually Portland doesn't have a conference track&field championships so they don't care, but Oklahoma St doesn't fair too well in the Big 12 conference meet.

In DIII you may be in a different situation though. It's all on-line in the NCAA manual. Do you have a compliance officer at your school?

Well, even if it's a one time gig, I would still like to go and get the experience, although I'd probably prefer to wait until my senior year (I'm a junior). I guess there's always the risk of getting injured and wasting my opportunity, but I plan on going to grad school at the same school and I was injured last track season, so I guess it could work out.

Yeah, I think I recall hearing about the 14 person thing. I don't even think we have 14 guys and girls combined, nevermind guys alone.

Yeah, I know it's all in the manual, but that thing is so big and the SID and I already perused through it a little bit and couldn't find anything. SID asked the AD to call the NCAA, but the AD hasn't gotten around to it yet because he's doing whatever ADs do and is busy.

I saw that you had a few teammates run well in the 5k also. Does your school pay for the trip or do you guys have to carpool down to get in a good race. Does the money come from the XC budget? I always wondered if XC programs without track could pull this off and hopefully get better recruits in and more opportunities for everyone. Great race this weekend by the way.

Girl who ran the 5k tripped on lap 8 and fell down, she was mad, wanted to run faster. Guy who ran 5k had a bad day, he wanted to go sub 15:20. Considering the conditions at Bucknell though, I think the performances were pretty decent. The weather was pretty bad for the earlier races. I was very lucky to have the wind die down completely for the 10k.

We carpooled to this particular meet (since we only had three people), but we usually rent a van when the whole cross team goes. School doesn't pay for anything track related, all of it does indeed come from our cross budget that is left over. My coach saves a ton of money from cross to use for track and equipment/gear. We aren't as fortunate as other DIII schools, we just have a decent budget, nothing great.

Thanks, I was pleased with the results. I wasn't sure what I'd do coming into the race, I only ran a 15:12 5k at UPenn the weekend before and never ran a 10k on the track before. During this race I went 15:35-15:21, came back only 9 seconds slower than what I raced the week before. Bad race at Penn I guess.

Yea, the Oregon State football player won the Oregon Preview with a jump of almost 7'3''. Or maybe it was 7'2''.

Quite amazing with he fact that there isn't even a track team for men at OSU. I am so excited to see the whole program be reinstated at Oregon State. I can see possibly in 10-12 years that it will be a recruiting battle for in-state athletes in Oregon, and UO will be affected by this.