HS: 9:30 in the two good enough for d3 college offers?

Get that mile lower, boy.

There are no scholarships for D3 if that's what you mean by "offers." If you have a good cross season, some D2 schools could throw some interest your way. And you could walk in to most D1 programs if you improve next track season.

There are no scholarships for D3 if that's what you mean by "offers." If you have a good cross season, some D2 schools could throw some interest your way. And you could walk in to most D1 programs if you improve next track season.

D3 schools take anybody. Anybody can be a walk on.

By offers, I meant solely the opportunity to run

You'll be among the best runners on some D3 teams.

if you were a girl you would be killing it

You could walk on at most d1 schools with those times. Maybe not a huge state school like Oregon or a distance school like Stanford, but any Ivy league school or private schools with D1 programs.

yeahhh no money offers from d3 but they might recruit you if you're local?

if you can get a sub 16 5k in cross and get to around the 4:20s in the mile i'd say you could go d2, unless you wanna win all the d3 races

Any D3 coach would love to pick up a 9:30 guy

Stuff you like to pee out wrote:

D3 schools take anybody. Anybody can be a walk on.

On most teams*

there are plenty of D3 schools where basically anyone can run, and you already have solid times

bored at work wrote:

You could walk on at most d1 schools with those times. Maybe not a huge state school like Oregon or a distance school like Stanford, but any Ivy league school or private schools with D1 programs.

True that. Especially if you have another year ahead of you and you get those down to a 4:20-25ish and 9:20s. D3 wouldn't be a problem to make most teams, and cracking top 7. D1 and D2 might not throw a lot of money your way but they wouldn't mind taking a peek.

btruedoe wrote:

yeahhh no money offers from d3 but they might recruit you if you're local?

if you can get a sub 16 5k in cross and get to around the 4:20s in the mile i'd say you could go d2, unless you wanna win all the d3 races

9:30 is a very good time for an incoming D3 runner, but he'll be far from dominant. Most conferences have a number of sub-15 guys.

Former Williams runner and d3 national xc champ Neal Holtschulte was just a 9:39/40 guy in high school. You'll get plenty of interest, though you'll not be the top recruit unless you continue to drop your times. You have plenty of time to do so particularly in the 5k xc, but also your mile time should be quite a bit faster: coaches like guys with enough hs speed to show the ability to drop a lot of time in the future with better training. You'll do very well. And no reason not to get a D1 scholarship at a middle or lower tier school if you continue to improve down to, say, sub 4:20/sub 9:15.

Go DI. You can develop into a faster runner in college (and after). I'm sure it's a bit different nowadays with dudes breaking 9 like it's nothing, and coaches thinking their programs are hot sh-t, but plenty of guys in my range in high school turned out to be pretty good DI runners (with some, myself included, going on to run well after college). FYI, I ran 4:20/9:30 in high school.

General Tso wrote:

4:30 1600

9:30 3200

16:15 5k

Going into senior year

You'd easily be the best on many DIII teams.

Possibly walk on to d1 school

You guys don't know sh*t about D3. Six guys on my team including me are sub 4 for the 1500, and five guys are sub 15 for the 5000. A 4:30 miler would be back of the pack at a lot of D3 schools.