Current times in the middle of sophomore year (female):
XC 5k - 20:33
3000m - 11:12
2k Steeple - 7:38
Mile - 5:32
Current times in the middle of sophomore year (female):
XC 5k - 20:33
3000m - 11:12
2k Steeple - 7:38
Mile - 5:32
1. Yes
2. It depends on how you train. Educate yourself on training and commit to the lifestyle for consistent training, sleep, nutrition, and taking care of schoolwork and everything else so that you can run every day.
most d3s will recruit the heck out of you with those times. i would. a few top ones won't. lots of NCAA-level programs have people lining up for them at nationals who ran slower than you when they were your age.
no one here can tell you how much you will improve over the next two years....there are too many variables. you could be running 5-flat or 6-flat in two years depending on a long list of factors. i have seen young women of your general ability go both directions.
train hard, stay healthy, be consistent and LOVE IT, and you will have a great chance for very gratifying results. good luck.
I wouldn't say D3's would be jumping at her but she would land a spot on any team
Thanks so much! I have discovered my passion for the sport this year, and would love to continue my competitive running career through college. A lot of girls on my team have told me that girls "peak" sophomore year and get slower during their junior/senior years. Is this the case for everyone? How can I prevent it? Thank you for the response.
lalala55 wrote:
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A lot of girls on my team have told me that girls "peak" sophomore year and get slower during their junior/senior years. Is this the case for everyone? How can I prevent it? Thank you for the response.
This isn't the case for everyone. Everyone is different. Obviously, if this were correct, you wouldn't have seen Shannon Rowbury break the American record in the 1500 last year.
If you believe it to be true, it very well may become a self-fulfilling prophecy through. I think there may be a tendency for that to happen based on how interests change more than anything else. But if you train sensibly and consistently, and truly enjoy it, you can improve quite a bit. Run a bit most days a week, develop a core routine, become friends with a foam roller and there's no hard and fast rule that says you can't continue to run PRs.
BTW...there are quite a few DII teams that would love to have you on their squads.
lalala55 wrote:
Thanks so much! I have discovered my passion for the sport this year, and would love to continue my competitive running career through college. A lot of girls on my team have told me that girls "peak" sophomore year and get slower during their junior/senior years. Is this the case for everyone? How can I prevent it? Thank you for the response.
Look at the milesplit profiles or athletic.net profiles of HS girls and you will see that many of them improve- especially the ones at successful programs with stable, experienced coaches. At my local HS, the runners stay the same, year after year- they don't improve (one of the runners improves, but she runs more than twice as much as the others, on her own time). The reason for this is that they average 10 to 15 miles per week, and no more. For untrained girls, they might get slower because they grow and mature- and without training, they might be slower due to a change in the power to weight ratio. However, there is no reason that a HS girl can't continue to improve with consistent training year after year (of course, if you are very well trained it might become difficult to improve due to approaching your potential, or reaching a point where large volume is needed to continue improving).
So if you are committed to running every day, all year, and living a healthy lifestyle (sleep, nutrition, etc.) and avoiding major injuries, you probably can continue improving through high school.
Bump your mileage yearly to keep improving.
Ok, thanks so much for the insight. Currently, I am only running about 20 miles a week, sometimes less (pathetic I know). If I bump it up to 30, I will probably see great improvement. Also: I just raced and got a new pr of 10:59 in the 3000m (and won the race)!
Girls go through puberty, and a lot of them hit it after sophomore year which accounts for girls "slowing down". That being said, a lot of the posters are correct that you can continue to improve even through puberty! Just keep taking care of yourself by eating properly (that means eating enough), sleeping well, and training smart. Be careful about bumping up your miles, and if you have a good coach consult with them first. Also remember that you're really quite young as far as runners are concerned when you're a high school sophomore. You can't indefinitely bump up your mileage and there's no need to bump it a bunch in high school. Be smart, believe in yourself, and keep it up!
Also, congrats on the new PR.
Thanks!
lalala55 wrote:
Ok, thanks so much for the insight. Currently, I am only running about 20 miles a week, sometimes less (pathetic I know). If I bump it up to 30, I will probably see great improvement. Also: I just raced and got a new pr of 10:59 in the 3000m (and won the race)!
Where are you that you only have a 3000 PR instead of a 3200m and continue to run 3000m?
honestly, those are very close to my hs prs and i ran DI in college..not a huge program, but won some champs and made it to regionals and stuff.
In my state the girls run the 1500/3000 instead of the 16/32
Cool, thats good to know! Thanks. How much would my times need to improve for D1? My guesses are somewhere around 5:15, 10:30, 19:00 (depends on the school and running program though).
I thought only D1/D2 could recruit? Or can D3 recruit as well?
lalala55 wrote:
I thought only D1/D2 could recruit? Or can D3 recruit as well?
Of course D3 can recruit. They just can't give scholarships. They can still go talk to athletes about coming to their school/program, as long as they follow the recruiting rules, like the other divisions.
lalala55 wrote:
Cool, thats good to know! Thanks. How much would my times need to improve for D1? My guesses are somewhere around 5:15, 10:30, 19:00 (depends on the school and running program though).
Well, 10:30 perhaps (for 3200), but good D1 schools aren't interested in 5:15 for 1600 or 19:00 for 5,000.
If you put out often, your hips will loosen, and you will increase your stride. It's true. Try it.
lalala55 wrote:
Current times in the middle of sophomore year (female):
XC 5k - 20:33
3000m - 11:12
2k Steeple - 7:38
Mile - 5:32
Some things:
1) MOST D3 schools would not only take you, but would really want you on their team with those times (especially your mile time).
2) They will be more interested to see what you do as a junior. It is not uncommon for high school girls to get slower as they progress through high school, so if you get faster as a junior, they will be very interested in that.
On many D3 teams, you will be among the fastest on the team. You will want to continue to get even faster though. If it's a hard-to-get-in-college, being wanted by the coach can help you get admitted.
Good luck.