I'm a female D1 runner who would like to see the women's xc distance moved at least to 8k as 6k I feel is too short for cross country. I know many other people on my team and other competitors on other teams also feel the same way. I see posts on here complaining about it all the time, well how do we actually go about doing something about this? Should we create a petition and send to the NCAA? Anyone on the inside have an idea?
start a facebook group? that's how they got betty white to host SNL last year. this would basically be like a petition, which you could also do.
If every girl in NCAA XC signs a notarized piece of paper saying they'd rather run 8k instead of 6k along with pertinent evidence / logic for running 8k over 6k, the NCAA would be hard pressed to deny this request.
Lengthening the race will only make it even more of a fringe sport than it already is. Only a few dozen schools can get a large number of quality distance runners. Lengthening the race may serve a small minority of the sport well by increasing their competitiveness, but it will reduce the overall interest and relevance of the sport across the entire college spectrum. It would be a step backwards for the sport as a whole because fewer teams will be able to field competitive teams.
D1 to 8K
D2 and D3 to 5K
xcrunner101 wrote:
I'm a female D1 runner who would like to see the women's xc distance moved at least to 8k as 6k I feel is too short for cross country. I know many other people on my team and other competitors on other teams also feel the same way. I see posts on here complaining about it all the time, well how do we actually go about doing something about this? Should we create a petition and send to the NCAA? Anyone on the inside have an idea?
Why are you running D1? Run the open races and run 8K if you want longer races. Are you good enough to go pro?
Yes. See the other thread, as someone seems to want to bring up this same issue once a week rather than look closely at the real issues involved. Yes, some will gain be a longer race, but others will similarly lose. It will make for a really uninteresting race with a field that has half the 250 runners really not prepared for 10K and under-prepared for 8K. How many women in college can work up to regularly running up to 100 miles per week. Compare that with the men's field where most of the guys are doing that.
I think the closeness of the women's race this year (and last year) proves that there is definitely an increase in depth. I think an increase to 8k would be fine and would not take away that much from the race.
Also, you would be surprised at how much mileage some women's teams run.
start a petition. Get girls to sign their name AND their school. Pass it around at meets. Deliver it to the NCAA.
bump
eliminate football as a number counting sport.
no not really... wrote:
I think the closeness of the women's race this year (and last year) proves that there is definitely an increase in depth. I think an increase to 8k would be fine and would not take away that much from the race.
Also, you would be surprised at how much mileage some women's teams run.
Yeah, but this year's winner runs very low mileage.
This system isn't broken, it's a perfect length. there's no need to fix it.