Highschool Senior trying to run D1 in college

Email North Florida, Miami, and Bethune Cookman

Miami and Bethune you already meet their walk on standards

It is mid March, you are a high school senior, and you haven't applied to college? You are way late in the game.

You seem like a good candidate for a junior college. Go there, get your academics together, and find one with a good running team. In another year or two hopefully you'll be ready for college and you'll know if you have the running chops to handle it.

For now, you are so late and you say you don't have great academics, so you want to get that together. Unless you are extremely, extremely talented, college coaches won't be interested in you unless your academics are up to snuff.

My academics are a little above average, not that bad. It is never too late. People have been telling me that my whole life but I will find a way. Thanks for the message, though.

Thanks a lo will do i appreciate it!

Thanks a lot will do i appreciate it!

take a year off, apply in the Fall

Apply to some state schools ASAP. If money is an issue, you can stay at home and take out loans to cover tuition. Costs are here:

http://www.flbog.edu/board/office/fac/tuition.php

Walk on the team.

Take a marketable major (e.g., STEM). Work your butt off.

You'll do fine. Good luck!

You're in Florida? Is your hs going to Florida Relays? That would be a good chance to be seen by college coaches and also get a good feel for regional college teams.

Try starting with a high school counselor (who should make time for you) about your interest to apply to colleges (in Florida) and application deadlines. They will know what the options are for March of your senior year. If you can still apply (and want to) apply, and then contact the coaches at the schools that you've applied and are interested to walk-on the team. It's probably too late for a college coach to consider you for recruiting and recommend you for admission as a walk-on athlete. But you'll want to know if they will invite you to walk on the team if you are admitted and enroll.

Your counselor should give you an idea of what your prospects are for admission at colleges in Florida. Even if there's time to apply for next fall, and you aren't a competitive applicant, they should tell you based on other students' experiences what the prospects are. Undoubtedly they will encourage you to enroll at a local community college for the first year or two. You may be ready to transfer out after a year, but it's often easier for 4-year school to admit you as a junior. Given your grades and running times this is likely your best option. Division I athletics isn't everything. Pick a school based on academics and then fit in running XC and track as lower priority.