D1 schools that have track but no track

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South Dakota has an excellent indoor track, but no outdoor track of their own. I believe when they have a home meet for outdoor season they have it at the high school in Yankton. I believe the same is true for South Dakota State.

Manhattan College has an indoor track but no outdoor. There is a track across the street in VCP, but they rarely use it since they have to go through the city to get time. I believe the work with Columbia to get some outdoor track time.

Northeastern has a track all the way out in Dedham but it was condemned last I heard. Boston University has an indoor track but not a regulation outdoor track. URI also seems to only have an indoor track.

Nashvillian wrote:

Lipscomb has a track

Since when? When I was there a few years ago they were using the high school track.

Loyola Chicago has a track - it's a shitty 300 m track around a turf but it's a track

i chose D2 wrote:

Nashvillian wrote:

Lipscomb has a track

Since when? When I was there a few years ago they were using the high school track.

As stated previously, it is jointly owned and used by both Lipscomb Academy and Lipscomb University. It was also completely redone/resurfaced about two years ago or so.

So why don't a lot of these universities, especially those with huge endowments, not have a track? Georgetown can obviously afford one right???

WHY???? wrote:

So why don't a lot of these universities, especially those with huge endowments, not have a track? Georgetown can obviously afford one right???

It's a bit misleading to say Georgetown has NO track. There's a small track (5 laps to the mile) just north of campus, and a 200m indoor track on campus. Just no standard 400m track.

As for why the lack of a standard track, I'm going to guess that the limiting factor is space, not money. With a lot of these urban schools, I'm guessing there's really no place to put one.

i dont think Wright State technically has track as a sport. They compete as a club team in the horizon league. They don't score any points but they do get individual awards. The coaches vote on this year to year.

Fairfield uses a high school track a mile down the road.

Sesamoiditis wrote:

Northeastern has a track all the way out in Dedham but it was condemned last I heard. Boston University has an indoor track but not a regulation outdoor track. URI also seems to only have an indoor track.

URI does not have an outdoor track anymore. I believe it was condemned back in the 1990s but they never fixed it. Nothing is listed as an outdoor facility on their website.

You can add Portland State to the list.

You may also want to remove Seattle U. as they have an non-regulation, oddly shaped 2 lane track. Not the greatest, but useable and on campus.

darkwave wrote:

It's a bit misleading to say Georgetown has NO track.

Not arguing, but isn't the track north of campus a part of the arts school down the road? Maybe not. I ran by it daily for years but never used it. Doesn't Georgetown have another short rooftop track somewhere? They have like 30 crap tracks and no real track. If they just planned it out they could fit one somewhere... Maybe on the intramural field down reservoir.

American University had a square track. I used to do workouts on it. Now it looks like it is a nice new certified 400 meter track.

Also, why is the Citadel on these lists. They have a track, right? I lived in Charleston for 4 years (decades ago) and used to work out on the track a lot. It was in the football stadium, I believe, but after checking Google it doesn't look to be there anymore. Was it removed?

Everything changes... I am getting so old.

I didn't see it on here- but add USC Upstate to this list.

(In Spartanburg, SC.)

They had planned on building a nice track, but then the 08-09 meltdown hit and they never followed through.

Older than you... wrote:

darkwave wrote:

It's a bit misleading to say Georgetown has NO track.

Not arguing, but isn't the track north of campus a part of the arts school down the road? Maybe not. I ran by it daily for years but never used it. Doesn't Georgetown have another short rooftop track somewhere? They have like 30 crap tracks and no real track. If they just planned it out they could fit one somewhere... Maybe on the intramural field down reservoir.

American University had a square track. I used to do workouts on it. Now it looks like it is a nice new certified 400 meter track.

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I honestly don't know who the track north of Georgetown belongs to, but I do believe it's open to all.

As for AU, I used to use that track about 5 years ago - then it was still square. Awesome news if they've changed it.

asdfafdsafds wrote:

The University of Minnesota - Twin Cities will be getting rid of their track for a few years.

Is the track torn down yet? I was hoping to do a sharpening workout before my big 4th of July race.

I know in early may they had painted all of the utility lines on the track and infieldinfield.

Also, could you provide any insight into how long the u of mn will be trackless/ is the new track still going to be in St Paul?

Thank you,

TURC

WHY???? wrote:

So why don't a lot of these universities, especially those with huge endowments, not have a track? Georgetown can obviously afford one right???

I wouldn't assume that just because schools have "huge endowments" that track programs are awash in money or that it's easy to get money diverted for track facilities. I can bet that it's no big priority at a lot of schools despite the fact that they be generally "rich." Not that it never happens, but, again, there's much more to it than having a significant endowment. Schools want to grow their endowment and there's all sorts of departments, projects, infrastructure and facilities development, etc. who are competing for endowment income.

Independently rich athletic departments with boosters who give money to be spent on athletics are a better bet than the general university endowment.

Likely end of summer. It will be gone for 2-3 years I would assume.