Do you think I could get scholarship $?

With young women it's difficult to predict progression from 9/10th grade to senior year. Genetics are a factor here. Some girls excel the first two years of HS. Then nature plays a cruel trick and changes girls into women with the hips, butt and boobs filling out.

I've seen it happen a lot. All conference/all state fresh/soph years are also rans later on. A good gauge to see where you genetics fit in with your running future would be to look at the women in your family. That'll give you some idea what your frame will be like the next 2/4/6 years.

Assuming your not prone to filling out to resemble the Kardashian's you'll probably need to be an all state runner. Luckily for the gals college x-c is the same distance as HS.

So my advice to you would be to run your butt of (literally and figuratively) focusing on x-c. You'll have a greater chance of attracting attention of x-c recruiters then you will for track.

Good Luck!

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post pic wrote:

need to see pic to get you truthful answer

Please ignore him, that's creepy as hell.

dontlistentohim wrote:

post pic wrote:

need to see pic to get you truthful answer

Please ignore him, that's creepy as hell.

Who said that's not a woman posting? Sexist.

And to the OP, you could already get a scholarship with your times. The collegiate system is DESPARATE for women runners. Go NAIA and some schools will give you a full ride, or at least tuition. If you're sub 19:00 in the 5k by senior year, look towards D1 and D2.

As stated above its hard to predict how girls will develop between their freshmen and senior year. If you get under 4:50 you'll get some looks and if you can improve your speed it will help a great deal.

Yes there are much more opportunities for girls than for guys, take advantage of it.

All depends on what level you want to go to. As some posters have already said, you could be getting something small from some D2's & NAIA's already...possibly even from some mid-major DI's ...but they probably wouldn't be very good programs...especially the DI's. If you want to be competitive AND enjoy your experience while receiving significant scholarship, you will want to be running some combination of 2:14/4:40(1500)/10:15(3k) consistently by your junior year if you want to go D2/NAIA/Mid-Major DI. If you want to go big time and get big money, better be consistently running some combination of 2:08/4:25/9:30. But if all you want is athletic scholarship, just continue to drop your times...there is so much money out there for female athletes of just about any caliber that it's shocking.

It's creepy no matter your gender to ask an underage person for pictures of themselves on an online forum.

You're being sexist..... wrote:

dontlistentohim wrote:

Please ignore him, that's creepy as hell.

Who said that's not a woman posting? Sexist.

And to the OP, you could already get a scholarship with your times. The collegiate system is DESPARATE for women runners. Go NAIA and some schools will give you a full ride, or at least tuition. If you're sub 19:00 in the 5k by senior year, look towards D1 and D2.

The collegiate system is DESPERATE for good spellers as well!

These girls did.

http://www.milesplit.com/signings

http://www.scholarshipstats.com/crosscountry.htm

http://www.collegesportsscholarships.com/ncaa-recruiting-rules-contact-visits.htm

1,525 schools sponsored varsity level cross country teams during 2014:

Athletic Scholarships Average Athletic

Number Number of teams Varsity Athletes (1) Average team size limit per team ** Scholarship (2)

Division of Schools Men's Women's Men Women Men's Women's Men Women Men Women

NCAA I 347 318 347 4,693 5,761 15 17 12.6 18 $14,233 $15,339

NCAA II 293 260 289 3,325 3,515 13 12 12.6 18 $5,790 $6,974

NCAA III 427 402 422 5,887 6,193 15 15 - - $ - $ -

NAIA 202 195 201 2,120 2,018 11 10 12 12 $6,352 $6,759

NJCAA 140 125 135 1,054 883 8 7 20 20 $1,846 $2,186

Other Divisions 116 110 115 1,138 981 10 9 - - $303 $400

Totals 1,525 1,410 1,509 18,217 19,351 13 13 $5,372 $5,942

Chances of a high school athlete competing in College Cross Country * Men Women 2014

Number of High School Cross Country Runners 252,547 218,121

Number of College Cross Country Runners 18,217 19,351

% of high school Cross Country Runners competing in college 7.2% 8.9%

An ACT or SAT score is mandatory for any HS senior to take any official visits. Take these tests your junior year.

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/eligibility_center/Quick_Reference_Sheet.pdf

NCAA AND NAIA SPORTS RECRUITING

NCAA National Collegiate Athletic Association Recruiting Guidelines and Rules

Click here to learn about the NCAA Eligibility Center.

Breaking down the campus visit. A guide for student-athletes.

Practical tips for unofficial visits.

High school Freshman and Sophomore year. these rules also apply until September 1 of your Junior year.

Coaches are allowed to:

Send you athletic or sports camp brochures, NCAA Educational Information and Questionnaires.

A coach can also accept phone calls from you as long as they are at your expense but remember that if you leave a message on an answering service the coach is NOT ALLOWED TO CALL YOU BACK.

Coaches are not allowed to:

To call you on the phone.

A coach cannot send you any written recruiting information.

NCAA Recruiting Guidelines, Unofficial Visits:

You can make unofficial visits to a college campus.

It is also permissible for you to receive a maximum of three complimentary tickets to a college sporting event.

You can talk with college coaches but this must be on campus.

NCAA Rules. Contact Visits.

Junior year from September 1

College coaches are allowed to send you information about their athletic program and about their school. this can include: media guides, schedule cards, personalized letters, photocopies of newspaper clippings and official university admissions and academic publications.

The college coach is now allowed to answer your emails and send emails to you as well.

Junior year from July 1

A college coach is only permitted to contact you in person off the college campus only on or after July 1st when you have completed your junior year of high school. If the coach meets with you or your parents and says anything to you or them then this is considered a contact. Anything more than a very basic hello is a contact.

College coaches are permitted to make one telephone call each week to you or your parents. You can call the coach as often as you wish.

Senior Year

You can make up to five Official – expense paid visits to college campuses. the visit to the campus cannot be longer than forty eight hours in duration. you are are not allowed to have an official visit until after your first day of classes of your senior year.

College coaches need to have an official ACT or SAT score and a copy of your official high school transcript before you can make a visit.

Coaches can make telephone calls and send written correspondence as per the rules for your junior year.

if your at a tournament and the coach does not talk to you don’t take it personally. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has specific recruiting rules that puts limits on communication at tournaments.

A college coach can sit down with a guardian or parent at a competition site. This is counted as one of the three in-person off-campus recruiting contacts a coach is permitted.

How my official visits helped me choose the college I love.

Important. NCAA Eligibility Rules.

I think you can.

runner gal wrote:

I am a sophomore girl and I run xc and track. I like it a lot. A lot of my older teammates talk about college and stuff and one of them is getting a scholarship. I was wondering if down the road if maybe I'd be able to get some kind of scholarship money as well. My GPA is a 3.0 currently. I know this isn't fantastic but I do work hard in school. My fastest 1500 is 5:09 which I ran last outdoor season as a freshman (this indoor season the goal is to break 5). My best 3k is 10:59 which was run last indoor as a freshman.

So you run a 5:30-35 1600. That will certainly get you looks from the local community college (my daughter will likely go that route), from there, get faster, run a 5:05, and you will get "shopped" by your NJCAA coach for your final two years of eligibility to an in-state D2 school.

post pic wrote:

need to see pic to get you truthful answer

I told you to stay off the computer until your trial is over!