How am I getting a scholarship with an 18:30.3 5k?!

What school?

You're trolling us.

There are some desperate schools out there. I got offered a 1/5 scholarship from an NAIA school that was in their 2nd or 3rd year of having a team and I had barely broken 5 and run in the mid-17s at that point. Their top guy hadn't even broken 30 in 8k the previous season and they didn't have track, although they might now.

There is zero chance a male with your times gets a legitinate athletic scholarship offer. Sorry

We are about 0-100 in trying to get actual school names looking for slow runners or coaches coming here looking for athletes. 0-100 are pretty bad odds but we will play along and continue to ask. It will only continue to grow in the right hand column though because we have these people who want to mislead young impressionable minds or they really believe their neighbor’s nephew who got a full ride at Notre Dame for running 9:30.

I saw a local-ish girl tweet pictures of her signing to run D1 Track (no scholarship mentioned to be fair) with PRs of (according to milesplit) 58.x and 2:21.

Am I missing something or is that where the bar is?

Girls can walk on with a 58. That’s not too uncommon. It’s equivakent to a guy walking on with a 9:25 3200.

Maybe girl wrote:

Girls can walk on with a 58. That’s not too uncommon. It’s equivakent to a guy walking on with a 9:25 3200.

That’s absurd. Both 58 for girl and 9:25 are scholarship at several D1s. A 58 distance girl who hasn’t trained a ton is highly sought after by D1 coaches. You guys are all too eltists.

Please tell me so that I can get a scholarship. I ran 9:25 as a junior and checked with every P5 coach. Many didn’t respond, some will allow me to walk on, and I got books from 3. No money offers from any though.

It's a relative to how competitive the school is and how many scholarships they have to give out.

There are some horrible D1 schools. There are more poor D2, D3 and NAIA schools for xc/track.

I personally know an NAIA school that recruited a 17:50 5k guy (I coached him in high school.)

Personally I went to a very large but poor D1 school with sub 4:20, 9:40 and 16:00 on a 50% scholarship.

And this school wasn't even fully funded (12.8 scholarships I think for D1 track athletes).

There are some programs that will only give PARTIAL scholarships to some of the nation's best because they are already that competitive.

Personally I know of a program that had All Americans that werent on full rides.

Again it is all relative and varies greatly from program to program and between divisions.

You can be slow and get a full ride or you can be really fast and be a walk on.

Context matters guys!

D-1, College are looking for guy's who could run under 4:20 for the mile, you should not look for them they will look for you. Every year i go to the Arcadia Track Meet & that's where you see D-1 Coaches looking to sign up the future runner's.

So good luck in your track season.

Still not seeing the names of those schools being revealed so that the hundreds of runners and parents and coaches reading this can contact them. It’s because they don’t exist. Schools are bad because they have fewer scholarships. Funded Schools are bad in certain event groups because they put their scholarships into another event group. It is actually less likely that you will get a scholarship in distance events at school who is bad at distance. I have seen kids get offended when they get a small offer from a decent distance school but are only offered a walk on spot at schools that were crappy in distance but were decent in sprints and jumps.

Which school?? wrote:

Please tell me so that I can get a scholarship. I ran 9:25 as a junior and checked with every P5 coach. Many didn’t respond, some will allow me to walk on, and I got books from 3. No money offers from any though.

Big difference between P5 and D1. Yes it’d be harder to get into a P5 school with a 9:25 but there 201 other D1 teams.

I also doubt you contacted all 65 P5 schools as there are ones around me that would absolutely atleast reply to 9:25 kids.

Fill out the recruiting form, email the coach, have your coach email the coach(or better yet have them approach the coach at a meet or something), be persistent.

Or look at the other D1s. If you have good grades, decent speed at 9:25 you will have a chance at some money.

To the OP probably NAIA or a bad D2 are the only shots you have for scholarship.

I am relatively - but not completely - sure that NAIA isn’t subdivided into tiers such as D1, D2, etc.

I call bullsh!t. (Even though there are certainly new programs out there at ALL levels, NAIA & NCAA, who offer $ for sub stellar HS performances.)

Fake news. There are women who can’t get scholarships with those times.

It only took about 3 hours to fill out all of the recruiting questionnaires. Which schools around you are you referring to?

It does say NAIA.

I don't think they have any standards. Maybe the coach just needs numbers.

If I was a coach who offered scholarships for 9:40 guys or some of these silly times being pushed here, I would post my info

Coach Smith

D1 or NAIA college No name

Email xx and phone yy

$$ for 9:40

He would have hundreds of guys contact him who are even faster. Can someone now see why the assertions don’t make sense? We all know kids who are desperately searching for a team that will take them. Getting money would make it even better. I have 3 seniors on the team right now who are in that category. One is leaning toward D3, one is leaning toward walking on at a D2, and the 3rd is thinking about hanging it up and going to the local P5 state school to save money. They told him if he breaks 9:20 or 4:20 this spring, he can walk on.

Which school? wrote:

It only took about 3 hours to fill out all of the recruiting questionnaires. Which schools around you are you referring to?

Kind of 2 things in this thread and probably trolls too. The OP could likely get some money at NAIA.

To the 9:25 kid claiming no contact: I’m in Michigan. Central Michigan, Oakland have kids on their teams who haven’t gone that fast. I know that Michigan State University has some kids not that fast and also know of a 9:20/4:23 kid who went there and excelled. Mid majors would be interested in a 9:25 guy.