KATELYN TUOHY TO NC STATE

Tuohy is very smart. She most likely earned a full ride from one of NC State's academic scholarships.

I’m just glad she’s going to run in college.

Back the the point of the post. Why is NC State getting all these top girls? Do they have a good track record of success with female distance athletes?

tuohy fan wrote:

Tuohy is very smart. She most likely earned a full ride from one of NC State's academic scholarships.

if you are so smart academically, why go to nc state? 84th ranked per US News. Go to mich or notre dame or stanford, they have scholarships..she picked the lowest ranked school academically on her list.

Deer Runner wrote:

Back the the point of the post. Why is NC State getting all these top girls? Do they have a good track record of success with female distance athletes?

they have very easy admissions and scholarship dollars

Fbgtbbh wrote:

Let me educate you. Not everyone has to be on a full ride from athletics! Depends on their academic scholarship.its called a full minus so maybe they all dont need fulls!

yes. very common in xc where many of the best athletes are top notch students.

I wish something like this would happen at a certain U near where I live, a University that I support because I would drop a lot of money for the specific running sports. I got tired of wasting money on the football program.

avoein wrote:

jed23 wrote:

Wow, when is the last time a school got 3 of the top 5-10 distance recruits in a class? Ever?

To answer this post, I would say the 06 Oregon recruiting class.

Stanford had a great 2016 class--definitely 3 in the top 10....

Is this the best decision for her? The team is loaded and they have some great recruits. She seems to have leveled off this year. I am concerned that she won't be top 5 next year and may get discouraged. It may have been wise to use her talent to get admitted to a better academic school that is not as good at running. It would lessen the pressure to perform.

Please explain why N.C..State is considered a good school?

It's a state school and it's in Raleigh N.C. point proven.

Did anybody say it was a good school?

You should check your facts

Common info is that schools can offer financial aid, academic scholarships, and then use partial Scholarships in athletics to cover the balance

We just merged 2 threads on this.

Very impressive recruiting hall by NC State if Starliper is going there as well.

I assume most schools are going to offer both of them 100% full rides right?

NC State had done a great job recruiting in the past.

USA Today also reports the same thing yes athletic and academic scholarships can be combined as long as certain conditions are met

Plus I've seen threads with hundreds of Runners who stayed the same thing that they have received both

Why don't you do a quick Google search before you post inaccurate info

NCAA requirements to combine academic and athletic scholarships

Does the NCAA let you combine academic and athletic scholarships? Yes, but you have to earn it in the classroom. While Division I athletic scholarships are relatively easy to qualify for — you need to graduate high school, complete 16 core courses and earn a GPA of 2.3 —the criteria are significantly higher for student-athletes looking to secure non-athletic financial aid. To accept an academic scholarship as an incoming freshman, student-athletes need to meet the following criteria:

Division I:

Top 10 percent of high school graduating class

3.5 cumulative GPA out of 4.0

1200 SAT score/105 ACT sum score

I'm sure Tuohy and starliper are both getting full rides

If you combine track and cross-country they're the top two runners in the country

Curious though how would NC State make offers to the other girls

Would they guarantee that can get the tuition down to certain amount with partial scholarships and financial aid

Just curious how was school makes that offer. Some of those other girls are pretty top Runners I'm sure they can get full rides to a lot of schools so just curious

Can everyone just stop hating on this 17 year old girl for once. Like bow people are criticizing her choice of school because it’s not academic enough or she might not be the best one on the team??

I am sure Touhy knows exactly what she is doing. As long as she is happy with her choice in schools, then why does it matter. Also who cares what kind of scholarship Touhy got, she’s the nations top athlete, any school she was considering probably saved her money.

NC state is still a fine school on athletics, if Touhy doesn’t want to go to an ivy or a top school, then she doesn’t have to. Again, she is a national caliber athlete, maybe she wants to focus on her running. And it’s not like Touhy won’t get a job (if she doesn’t go pro) just because she went to NC state.

Seriously it’s like you guys criticize her for breathing! Everything she does she supposedly does wrong. Just be happy for her, she seems happy with her school. She will have a great group of girls to work off if. And of course she will have friends there like Claire Walters and Kelsey Chmiel.

Chooser of schools wrote:

Did anybody say it was a good school?

Guys seriously it has one of the best computer science programs in the world

It also has a top engineering and math School

Their business school is really solid

Its ranked around a hundred out of the top schools in the world

You're probably looking at 5000 major institutions in that survey

It's one of the top research schools in the world

No it doesn't have the elite reputation of some better known schools but that doesn't mean it's not really good

I'm not saying it's among the very best I'm just saying it's a solid school that certainly way better than average

It's also a big state school that has a lot of funding and a lot of resources

They have great athletic facilities and clearly have recruited some great runners

83 US Universities ranked ahead of it. Academics should come before athletics but not in the case of Tuohy. Sure it is a good school but why would she go there if she could have gone to Stanford, ND, Michigan, UCLA, Virginia, Cal or many other schools for free?