How many colleges have their own cross country course that are not on golf courses?
How many colleges have their own cross country course that are not on golf courses?
I used to run wrote:
How many colleges have their own cross country course that are not on golf courses?
6
252
There seems to be a discrepancy. Which is it? 252 or 6?
yes
Probably a few hundred at least.
Michigan Tech has ~50 km of running/nordic skiing trails that the college owns. They are home to an extremely hilly 8k course. Their ski team is already on natural snow.
Huskies wrote:
Michigan Tech has ~50 km of running/nordic skiing trails that the college owns. They are home to an extremely hilly 8k course. Their ski team is already on natural snow.
Congratulations! This was the first post in this thread that not only does not attempt to answer the OP's question, but also doesn't even address the question.
There are about 5,300 colleges in the USA (or at least institutions called colleges). There are 347 in the NCAA and 251 in the NAIA, so that is 598 colleges that at least have some athletic program. Schools that are urban may not have their own XC course, but non-urban schools probably do have a course. Not all schools have an XC team. I would make an initial wild-ass-guess that at least 50% of NCAA and NAIA schools have their own XC course. So, my wild-ass-guess is 300.
well thennn wrote:
There seems to be a discrepancy. Which is it? 252 or 6?
I believe it’s 6. If I’m reading lkj right, what he meant by 252 is the following: Two divided by five is .4, drop the decimal and add 2. Your answer is 6. So lkj and ric flair wooooooo both agree. 6
Fart Garfunkel wrote:
Huskies wrote:
Michigan Tech has ~50 km of running/nordic skiing trails that the college owns. They are home to an extremely hilly 8k course. Their ski team is already on natural snow.
Congratulations! This was the first post in this thread that not only does not attempt to answer the OP's question, but also doesn't even address the question.
There are about 5,300 colleges in the USA (or at least institutions called colleges). There are 347 in the NCAA and 251 in the NAIA, so that is 598 colleges that at least have some athletic program. Schools that are urban may not have their own XC course, but non-urban schools probably do have a course. Not all schools have an XC team. I would make an initial wild-ass-guess that at least 50% of NCAA and NAIA schools have their own XC course. So, my wild-ass-guess is 300.
I have been on to dozens of XC college meets at various places and I can't think of a single one that I would consider on campus and not part of the golf course. I am sure there are some but it is very few.
I would say that your distinction of a college's XC course being partially on a property such as a golf course does not mean that the college does not "have their own cross country course." If a college does not have a cross country course, then they do not have their own course. If a college shares a cross country course with another school, then they do not have their own course. If a college has a cross country course that they use as their home course and do not need to share, then they do have their own course.
My HS has their own course.
Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL has an 8km course on their campus. It's all grass, no concrete, and not part of a golf course.