With these PRs, I would worry about what you want to study, finding a good academic fit, and the cost of education. Running should be about 20th on your priority list. 5 years after you graduate, you will not care that you ran D1. You will care that your degree gives you access to the employment opportunities that you want access to, and that you don't have a crushing student loan debt.
Welcome to adulthood.
The Rapture wrote:
Flagpole is actually making sense. It's time to start looking for the other three horsemen.
I am consistent in my logic and reasoning, an immovable object in that regard, so if I am now making sense to you when I did not before, then it is YOU who has changed (and for the better I might add), so no worry of the apocalypse, brother.
With your times you can go to an average mid major. Talk to a coach who is interested, expect to walkon, and know that at most DI institutions there is a chance you get lost in the crowd.
If you work hard though you could maybe one day be a top seven for a team. I've seen slower HS PRs run 14:30. I think it is great to want to run DI but you have to understand it would be a very long shot for you to be a national caliber DI athlete.
Stay out of the Mountain Region. Too many strong teams. The weaker ones mentioned before have a miserable go of it.
roberts wesleyan college, small d2 christian school in NY, great program coming up
Here is my assumption.
Given one full year of training, you should be able to run 10k at approx the same pace at 10k as you are running in the 5k this year.
Say you can run 33:30 next year.
There are more than 100 NCAA div 1 that don't have 7 runners that achieved 33:30 at regionals.
You have your pick of South Dakota, Southern Illinois, Iowa, Illinois State, Eastern Illinois, Loyola, Wishita State, UMKC, Saint Louis, SE Missouri, SIW Edwardsville, North Dakota, Kansas State, Western Illinois, De Paul, Creighton and Oral Roberts in the Mid West alone...
You can actually attend a middle of the pack team. You don't have to go to the bottom.
In fact, you could attend any of the schools from Saint Louis down and actually be a scorer (top 5). You would be top 3 from Western Illinois down.
In my mind, there are only Oklahoma State (7th was 31:17), Minnesota (7th was 32:19), Iowa State (7th was 32:25), Illinois (7th was 32:31), Tulsa (7th was 32:35) and Oklahoma (7th was 32:56) that should be avoided. You would probably be top 7 in all other schools as a Soph (assuming that you keep progressing) and top 7 as a Freshman at all schools from South Dakota down.
redhawk wrote:
roberts wesleyan college, small d2 christian school in NY, great program coming up
Coach Dorr get off Letsrun quite giving yourself a BJ ! Your team is average at best and no one likes you.
All I have to add is look at NAIA schools. You could get a combo of athletic and academic aid and actually have an enjoyable college running experience (to go along with the college experience itself). Depending on your parent's finances, your goal should be to graduate with as little/no financial debt. You'll thank me in 5 yrs.
Btw, D1 coaches are overwhelmed by emails every day from guys like you, multiplied by 50x+. Your email would end up in the trash.
redhawk wrote:
roberts wesleyan college, small d2 christian school in NY, great program coming up
Unless you are SUPER Christian, going to a "Christian" college is a bad bad idea. I'm surprised there are as many of them out there as there are -- these are ones that call themselves "Christian" colleges. That's not the same as a college that just happened to be founded by a religious denomination. I've never understood why going to college had to be coupled with "Faith" at the school. You can certainly explore your own faith by going to any college. There aren't 4-year-colleges for people who like to college Hummel Figurines. Go do that extra-curricular thing on your own time.
OP - E-mail your resume & contact info over.
you'd be top dog over at Youngstown State University
ask for Brian Gorby...
I agree with FP here. Further, I think the proper order of division rankings is:
D1 - The top competition and many top academic schools (Ivies, Stanford, etc)
DIII - This is the gentleman's league. Great academic institutions but with no scholarships. These are the little ivies, typically. Use your athletic ability as a tool to get into these great liberal arts colleges.
DII - This is the blue collar league. There are great athletes and programs here but the schools are second tier, academically. These are the north, south, east, west state schools.