best D3 teams at good schools

Washington University in St. Louis has a great coach and a great program. Shoot the coach an email, he will be more than happy to talk to you. On top of that their programs in the sciences are on par with any school in the nation.

Why are you limiting yourself to D3?

To "skool is fool",

I think the only "fool" here is you. You've got to be kidding me.

Wash U has one of the very best D3 programs for both men and women in recent years.

Their coach Jeff Stiles, was a captain of a national championship team at North-Central College and was a multiple-time all-American.

Last season their men were 3rd at nationals and their women won the national championship. Stiles is the only active cross country coach in the entire NCAA to have won a national team title as an athlete and as a coach. Yeah that's pretty bad.

Wash U is a very tough school, there are A LOT of kids on the team as well. The bottom line is no one with a marginal commitment level is successful in this sport anywhere. So quit your whining and look around at what it takes to be good. The world is full of excuse-makers, sounds like you're probably one of them.

Aurora Borealis wrote:

Why are you limiting yourself to D3?

This.

Are you scared of the higher competition? Can't handle not being the "top dog"? Running and traveling are going to take up a lot of time regardless of which division you compete in.

Why don't you start looking at D1 schools that actually are a good fit for you academically and athletically.

Columbia

Harvard

Dartmouth

Rest of the Ivys

Davidson

Duke/UNC

Colgate

Lehigh* (Engineering)

Rest of the Patriots

Georgia Tech (Engineering)

Villanova

Georgetown

What once happened, once wrote:

Aurora Borealis wrote:

Why are you limiting yourself to D3?

This.

Are you scared of the higher competition? Can't handle not being the "top dog"? Running and traveling are going to take up a lot of time regardless of which division you compete in.

Why don't you start looking at D1 schools that actually are a good fit for you academically and athletically.

Columbia

Harvard

Dartmouth

Rest of the Ivys

Davidson

Duke/UNC

Colgate

Lehigh* (Engineering)

Rest of the Patriots

Georgia Tech (Engineering)

Villanova

Georgetown

add william and mary to the D1 schools. outstanding academics and they tend to take 4:20/9:20 types.

He won't be the top dog at good D3 schools. Of course, it totally depends on how well trained he is right now. If he's coming from a good high school program, he'll be better off at a D3 or mid-major D1 than at some D1 school where he'll run 14:20 and never be varsity. What's the point? That just seems like a crappy situation to me. Train your ass off for three years and maybe you'll get to travel.

I agree that D1 schools could be a good fit, but a 9:20 guy going D3 isn't ducking the competition.