considering JUCO...what are the pros and cons??

Central Arizona got beat by Paradise Valley at JUCO national XC. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

thats why az juco's are the best, they dominate. but too bad that PV is gonna suck next year. they'll have no chance to repeat as champions!! dont have hate towards them, just stating the obvious. more than half their top 7 wont be back. some due to cuz they are sophmores. others just cuz they wont return to PV.

You should go to Orange Coast JC. Live on one of the numbered streets in Newport. Pick up some hot chicks on the beach. Plenty of places to run and they have good coaching and good track and cross country programs.

After two years if you do well academically, you could transfer to the UC school of your choice. Or if you have the ablity you could try to get a scholarship through your running.

Marco Ochoa is the coach at OCC. He was a stud in his day and has had good success coaching state level JC guys and girls at OCC.

California JCs have talent, no doubt, but it sucks that they dont compete in the national meet. It sucks for them, because they dont have the chance to compete for a national title, and it sucks for the rest of the JCs because I know when I was an "All-American" at a JUCO, I always wished that I could have raced the CA schools so I could really feel that I competed against ALL the competition.

e-mail this dude:

CummingsE@SMCSC.EDU

i bet he'll give you a full ride with those times.

guys team was top 10 last year in jucos, i think.

no winter in south carolina.

IF your looking for a good distance school you need to look at Rend Lake College They have been strong the last 4 years and continue to build there program. You can contact my coach through the Rlc website .. which is www.rlc.edu

I am a 4-year graduate, however, I still have 4 years of track eligibility (if I could use it) left can I run JUCO? I am female and my PR’s are 59.8x 400, 4:38 1500, 18:26 5K. I have no XC eligibility left

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Central Oregon Community College, other wise known as "COCC on the rock" would be a great choice. If they had a running program, then all the great guys from Bend would go there..haha..but, they don't, so everyone in Oregon goes to Lane or Clackamas CC. The NWAACC is competitive with Jucos, except for having the foreigners. Spokane CC is good, always deep. That is like where all the Mead guys go that don't go to a D1 right away. Anyway, good luck..

RLCTrckRnr wrote:

IF your looking for a good distance school you need to look at Rend Lake College They have been strong the last 4 years and continue to build there program. You can contact my coach through the Rlc website .. which is

http://www.rlc.edu

which Rend Lake runner are you? since you go there, do you know what the Kunz twins doin after this year? thanks

yea, definitley e-mail Coach Cummings. Come to to south carolina, so i'll someone to run with, as i need protection when i venture deep into the ghetto. i'll post the address again.

CummingsE@SMCSC.EDU

"so i'll someone to run with"

oops, sorry, there's suppost to be a "have" in their.

with those times he woudn't need to go to JUCO in south carolina...he'd get pretty much a full ride to any of the d1 schools such as:

college of charleston

coastal carolina

winthrop

furman

wofford

and at least partial to schools like clemson or university of south carolina.

same for schools in north carolina like:

appalachian state

unc (any) except chapel hill

etc.

i believe he said that he had some issues with academics, i think furman and wofford would be out of the question, although his times could get him there. out of those D1 schools you listed, i'd say Winthrop has the best coach and he could probably get on there with a scholarship more than likely.

RLCTrckRnr wrote:

IF your looking for a good distance school you need to look at Rend Lake College They have been strong the last 4 years and continue to build there program. You can contact my coach through the Rlc website .. which is

http://www.rlc.edu

You should know that there is a big difference academically between a JUCO and a University. At a University, a little more independence is expected, as lecture halls are huge, and there will be very little personal contact between the professor and student (at least for the first two years.) The work is sometimes more rigorous at a University than at a JUCO, although many students learn more course content at a JUCO because of conscientious teachers, and smaller classes.

I think you can run indoor and outdoor track and the marathon if they still have it. I remember this 52 year old nun that ran for a JUCO school.