I have a friend who consistently runs 23-24 min Cc 5ks and has a full ride scholarship to a smaller school.
Anyone else fee this is extremely unacceptable and is hurting women’s distance running? When we lower our standards to such bad times it surely is hurting the sport m.
Hopefully they're good students.
I had a friend who could barely read and write yet he too received a full scholarship to a university.
This isn’t a new thing! Go look at any smaller schools CC team, most women are running 23-28 min 5k.
i think in years to come itll get even worse.more and more people seem to prefer being on their computers/ipads/phones/video games to playing sport.A division colleges are way tougher than that,and id have thought the B standard was above that.
Surely that’s not possible?
jeff tallon wrote:
i think in years to come itll get even worse.more and more people seem to prefer being on their computers/ipads/phones/video games to playing sport.A division colleges are way tougher than that,and id have thought the B standard was above that.
Right! That kid who won the Fortnite world championships won more money than getting first place in every single marathon major for 4 years, combined. The world is going to keep getting lazier as it pays to be lazy in America.
Full ride scholarship wrote:
I have a friend who consistently runs 23-24 min Cc 5ks and has a full ride scholarship to a smaller school.
Anyone else fee this is extremely unacceptable and is hurting women’s distance running? When we lower our standards to such bad times it surely is hurting the sport m.
Your friend might have a full ride but it's not an athletic scholarship regardless of what she says
Full ride scholarship wrote:
I have a friend who consistently runs 23-24 min Cc 5ks and has a full ride scholarship to a smaller school.
Anyone else fee this is extremely unacceptable and is hurting women’s distance running? When we lower our standards to such bad times it surely is hurting the sport m.
I am skeptical that the scholarship is running related. For one thing, how many D1 track athletes get a "full ride"? With track limited to 12.3 (I think that is right) grants-in-aid. One person getting a full ride means that everyone else on the team is cutting his/her $ cut by 1/12 (and here I am assuming the athletic dept is fully funding all 12.3). That one runner had better score a boat load of points!
Now they might have put together a package of financial aid that all adds up.
No way she got an athletic scholarship. I’m sure it was financial aid plus academic scholarship that added up to a full ride.
Plenty of people who don't run at all get full ride scholarships.
Eifhttt wrote:
jeff tallon wrote:
i think in years to come itll get even worse.more and more people seem to prefer being on their computers/ipads/phones/video games to playing sport.A division colleges are way tougher than that,and id have thought the B standard was above that.
Right! That kid who won the Fortnite world championships won more money than getting first place in every single marathon major for 4 years, combined. The world is going to keep getting lazier as it pays to be lazy in America.
Can't excel at esports if you're lazy. They're too competitive.
Luv2Run wrote:
I am skeptical that the scholarship is running related.
OP never claimed that the scholarship was running related. He just stated that the person runs 23-24 min in the 5K, and that they have a full ride scholarship.
I have a friend who loves orange juice and has a full ride scholarship. Doesn't mean anyone is getting a full ride for drinking OJ. It just means that like the OP, I am capable of sticking two random facts about a person into a sentence.
There are plenty of guys that stink on scholarship at small schools too, especially on the football team. This is not a gender issue. Sure Title 9 makes it more difficult for men's Olympic sports, but men overall have more athletic scholarship opportunities. The OP is just jealous because he stinks at football.
I had a friend whose daughter was admitted to USC with a 2.3 gpa because she was so talented in soccer, although she has never played the game.
Anyone else feel this is extremely unacceptale and is hurting women's soccer? When we lower our standards to such bad play it surely is hurting the sport m.
L Loughlin wrote:
I had a friend whose daughter was admitted to USC with a 2.3 gpa because she was so talented in soccer, although she has never played the game.
Anyone else feel this is extremely unacceptale and is hurting women's soccer? When we lower our standards to such bad play it surely is hurting the sport m.
And I know a football player who wrote his name on the SAT and turned it in blank. He also had a 1.8 gpa and somehow got accepted to UCLA. He ended up flunking out of school his first year and never played a single snap. Big surprise.
Are they distance runners or middle distance runners who ran the 23 min?
Full ride scholarship wrote:
I have a friend who consistently runs 23-24 min Cc 5ks and has a full ride scholarship to a smaller school.
Anyone else fee this is extremely unacceptable and is hurting women’s distance running? When we lower our standards to such bad times it surely is hurting the sport m.
Don't believe everything you read or hear.
Star wrote:
Are they distance runners or middle distance runners who ran the 23 min?
GFY
Honestly, most college girls can’t break 18-20 min 5k even well trained, they are just different then men when it times to distance running.
20 min 5k is in the top 1 % of all women who run a 5k.