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.