College XC teams with a “team house”?

i would guess that a lot of athletes at all colleges do this... Probably not really how it is in once a runner at all colleges but people organize it outside of university housing

Depends on the program but college athletes are generally serious enough and spend enough time together to be great friends, and will rent a house together or something

Yale has one, I believe

When I was in college our top 5 guys lived together...pretty much the case every year. helps to live with people with the same schedule & priorities. Guessing this changes according to different cliques/social groups though..

My school (Binghamton University) has two houses off campus where the entire team, except freshmen, live. It's relatively common from my understanding.

Like seen here?

https://www.flotrack.org/video/5157170-track-shacks-university-of-oregon

Like this? wrote:

Like seen here?

https://www.flotrack.org/video/5157170-track-shacks-university-of-oregon

I think Galen gets a bad rap around here, but whenever I see this video I can’t help but think he’s trying way too hard to appear cool. He just comes off as a dork.

Flotrack's "Track Shack" series shows a lot of the XC houses that college teams have

two specific ones that come to mind are Cal and Dartmouth, but there are plenty of others

I was on a big D3 program and between the guys and girls cross country teams we had about 6 team houses. It was a blast, I loved living with my teammates. It was great to live with people who had similar lifestyles and knew what you were going through if things were tough. I honestly could not have imagined living with non runners during my four years of college.

Black Hills State, a pretty good D2 team in Spearfish, SD (beautiful town), has a Cross Country House that is an old converted bus barn. It has been around for about 20 years. Those guys are fun.

Looking forward to that

The tough thing about putting together a team house can be zoning. We tried to do one in college but the city zoned all residential housing for a maximum of four residents, (unless you were in Greek life, somehow it didn't matter for them).

A lot of times it's just an informal arrangement with guys renting the same house with sophomores moving in when the seniors on the team graduate. Freshmen usually live in the dorms.

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Like this? wrote:

Like seen here?

https://www.flotrack.org/video/5157170-track-shacks-university-of-oregon

I think Galen gets a bad rap around here, but whenever I see this video I can’t help but think he’s trying way too hard to appear cool. He just comes off as a dork.

When I watch the video, I don't get the impression he is trying to hide that he is a dork.

In my experience it's more common than not, though not usually official. The best move is finding schools/ programs your student likes and having them figure it out on their visits.

In 'Once A Runner" it was Doobey Hall and it was the athletes on-campus dormitory. Not quite like the team all living together in an off-campus apartment.

Penn State had the Music Academy ten years ago. Look it up on Flotracks Track Shacks.

Tons of teams do this. It’s not a school sanctioned thing, it’s just a rotating cast of team members that rents the same house for years, sometimes a decade or more. My D1 team even had two houses going for a few years, but I think they eventually struggled to fill both and have since gone down to only one.

Home Park for the W

Literally every school has a team house. Guys that sweat and bleed together tend to gravitate toward each other.

CoachWC wrote:

I coach a high school sophomore who wants to run in college. After reading the book “Once a Runner“, he loves the idea of being on a team where they all live together in a team house. Does anyone know any schools where this exists?

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