Thanks again. I really appreciate you taking the time to answer me. I'm going to contact a few coaches during my spring break. The worst that can happen is that they will ignore me at this point.
Thanks again. I really appreciate you taking the time to answer me. I'm going to contact a few coaches during my spring break. The worst that can happen is that they will ignore me at this point.
Given your experience this is super helpful. The D1 schools I'm interested in are power 5 and mid major. The power five schools all finished mid range or lower in their regional during XC. One of the Power 5 schools finished higher than middle, but they had mostly all seniors running. Looking at their current freshmen, they don't seem like they have many who were superstars in high school.
I will make sure to include everything you mentioned in my e-mails and be professional.
In other news, I won my last indoor race, front runner from beginning to end, but I didn't go under 4:30.
Pure Speculation wrote:
In general:
D1: Sub-4:20
D2: Sub-4:30
NAIA/D3: Anytime
This train of thought needs to change. I coach DII and every 4:19-4:18 kid thinks they are way too good for DII. Let's face it. If you can't run sub 4:10 out of high school you have no business thinking you are D1 material. It took 4:06 to qualify to indoors NcAAs DII. I see a lot of 4:18 -4:15 kids that go D1 and never come close to 4:06. They have D1 dreams and just get shit on at the D1 level.
If you are visiting campuses this Spring (of your junior year), then definitely contact the coach (or an assistant) about your plans to visit and your interest to meet them and current team members. That will be more "time sensitive" than your indoor performances. But in this case go ahead and share them. If you miss connections on your visit, ask to schedule a phone call.