seemed like a golf course when i was there in '74. cheers.
granite ridge wrote:
IU's course is merely next to the golf course. Calling it a golf course is a stretch. I agree that it's a great course though!
seemed like a golf course when i was there in '74. cheers.
granite ridge wrote:
IU's course is merely next to the golf course. Calling it a golf course is a stretch. I agree that it's a great course though!
Florida State has a dedicated course at Apalachee Regional Park
Princeton has a solid one. Heps has been hosted there the past 3 years.
Fairbanks Cross Country Course in San Luis Obispo. Located across the street from Cuesta College. Big West Conference was run there last weekend. The course is incredibly rough, but I thought the permanent xc features were cool. They had signs for each mile mark for hs, cc, university races and each one was sponsored by a local business.
Lehigh's would fit your description of a dedicated course. It has 4 courses, 5k, 6k, 8k and 10k, these courses have changed only slightly in the last 15yrs to accommodate the athletics fields around them. If you have raced any of the 4 courses you would understand it is not just a run "through a field."
Old thread I know.
But a piece of landed dedicated to a cross country and only a cross country course seems like a terrible use of a resource.
Right, it could have been a golf course.
Mizzou just built one this past year.
https://www.como.gov/parksandrec/facilities/gans-creek-cross-country-course/
It's located in a city park so the course and park share common parking/support facilities but the course is dedicated to year round XC. The course is really nice and the facility should continue to improve as Mizzou builds ancillary buildings over the next few years.
It was 20+ years ago, but I remember jogging on a dedicated cross country course at Indiana University in Bloomington. It was rolling grass fields and had mile mark and directional stakes for the various course distances. Does this not exist anymore?
UC San Diego. Starts on grass fields and has loops through the Eucyliptus Tree groves. Is that still there?
UC Riverside: they had a course through the orange groves. The course had a metal sign on poles that marked the finish. Is that still there?
nixon. wrote:
Right, it could have been a golf course.
I mean I guess it can be used by the local joggers daily. At least a golf course gets used daily spring through fall.
morunner wrote:
Mizzou just built one this past year.
https://www.como.gov/parksandrec/facilities/gans-creek-cross-country-course/It's located in a city park so the course and park share common parking/support facilities but the course is dedicated to year round XC. The course is really nice and the facility should continue to improve as Mizzou builds ancillary buildings over the next few years.
Fantastic new facility in Columbia! The course is the new home to the Missouri State High School Championship. Look forward to seeing the SEC championship, Midwest Regional Championship and NCAA Championship come to the Gans Creek Course.
Info wrote:
It was 20+ years ago, but I remember jogging on a dedicated cross country course at Indiana University in Bloomington. It was rolling grass fields and had mile mark and directional stakes for the various course distances. Does this not exist anymore?
UC San Diego. Starts on grass fields and has loops through the Eucyliptus Tree groves. Is that still there?
UC Riverside: they had a course through the orange groves. The course had a metal sign on poles that marked the finish. Is that still there?
Yes, UC-Riverside still has the same course, used every year.
ustewbarunner wrote:
Florida State has a dedicated course at Apalachee Regional Park
Yes, I would put FSU on this list. It's just a few miles off campus, and a fully-dedicated XC course that's been used for major XC races.
Lehigh
Kutztown
Duke
coach d. wrote:
Lehigh runs through their athletic fields, not a dedicated XC course, per se. As a big time D 1 coach with insider information, I know.
Lehigh's athletic campus, their classroom and residential campus, their mountaintop campus, and all of the area in between is one large land mass privately owned by Lehigh University.
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL has it's own on campus XC course. It is not part of a gold course. This is not to be confused with Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. They are two separate universities.
Fart Garfunkel wrote:
coach d. wrote:
Lehigh runs through their athletic fields, not a dedicated XC course, per se. As a big time D 1 coach with insider information, I know.
Lehigh's athletic campus, their classroom and residential campus, their mountaintop campus, and all of the area in between is one large land mass privately owned by Lehigh University.
I ran the course this morning while at the regional meet. It is close to being a dedicated course, but not quite.
Fart Garfunkel wrote:
Lehigh
Kutztown
Duke
Kutztown is not D1.
What schools have dedicated cross country course on campus?
The OSU coach only knows of two.
I can think of Texas A&M, OSU, Iowa State, SIUE, UW Parkside [D2].
There must be more.
Wisconsin - not on campus
Iowa State - yes
Iowa - I don't think so
Oklahoma State - yes
Arkansas - Agri Park, not really on campus
Texas A&M - yes, with Veterinary School
Kansas - no
Indiana State - no
Virginia Tech - maybe
Purdue - IDK
SIUE - yes
Missouri State - IDK
Colgate - maybe
North Texas - IDK
Colorado - no
Alabama - no
Idaho State - IDK
South Dakota - IDK