I’m a senior and I ran PRs of 4:45 and 10:20 indoors in addition to a 17:15 5k from cross country on 30-40 mpw. I rounded these times to the nearest 5 seconds to keep myself anonymous.
I’m a senior and I ran PRs of 4:45 and 10:20 indoors in addition to a 17:15 5k from cross country on 30-40 mpw. I rounded these times to the nearest 5 seconds to keep myself anonymous.
Male or female? If you are a male, find the worst D1 team and maybe you could run there. If you are a female, you already know the answer - good luck
Another fine April Fool's setup.
Hope they bite!
DistaceCoach10k wrote:
Male or female? If you are a male, find the worst D1 team and maybe you could run there. If you are a female, you already know the answer - good luck
This is actually a good point. If you are a guy, don't even bother with D1. There are plenty of good D2 and D3 teams out there that would consider you. D1 schools are more business oriented, and are less likely to take a chance on someone of your caliber. D2 or D3 though, have at it.
If you are a woman, most D1 schools would consider at least a partial scholarship. D2 schools, despite the lack of academic strength, would definitely give you a full ride.
shaquille oatmeal wrote:
DistaceCoach10k wrote:
Male or female? If you are a male, find the worst D1 team and maybe you could run there. If you are a female, you already know the answer - good luck
This is actually a good point. If you are a guy, don't even bother with D1. There are plenty of good D2 and D3 teams out there that would consider you. D1 schools are more business oriented, and are less likely to take a chance on someone of your caliber. D2 or D3 though, have at it.
If you are a woman, most D1 schools would consider at least a partial scholarship. D2 schools, despite the lack of academic strength, would definitely give you a full ride.
I know a few other dudes with my times that are running DI on teams with national qualifiers or had the option to.
blazers wrote:
shaquille oatmeal wrote:
This is actually a good point. If you are a guy, don't even bother with D1. There are plenty of good D2 and D3 teams out there that would consider you. D1 schools are more business oriented, and are less likely to take a chance on someone of your caliber. D2 or D3 though, have at it.
If you are a woman, most D1 schools would consider at least a partial scholarship. D2 schools, despite the lack of academic strength, would definitely give you a full ride.
I know a few other dudes with my times that are running DI on teams with national qualifiers or had the option to.
Who's their daddy?
blazers wrote:
I know a few other dudes with my times that are running DI on teams with national qualifiers or had the option to.
This gave you away as a troll.
I would have answered telling you to look up regional results and pick the worst 5 teams in each region for your list. But saying its at a place where they are qualifying nationally is ignorant.
well...... wrote:
blazers wrote:
I know a few other dudes with my times that are running DI on teams with national qualifiers or had the option to.
This gave you away as a troll.
I would have answered telling you to look up regional results and pick the worst 5 teams in each region for your list. But saying its at a place where they are qualifying nationally is ignorant.
I didn’t mean the team was nationally qualifying I was implying they had individual national qualifiers.
Running is moribund. The new challenge is breathing.
Consider e-sports.
You should skip college and try out for the Olympics
If this is a serious thread, you should take a serious look at D2/D3 schools with strong academic programs. Hype yourself as a hard worker and someone with untapped potential (low mileage guy). You can maybe get into a school that would have been tougher to get into.
If your goal is to run d1, you're really not gonna get a serious look. Find schools that are a good fit to your post-collegiate goals, ones maybe with a strong club team where you can get your times to sub-4:30, sub-9:30, sub-16:00, at minimum. Then see if they'll let you walk on.
Non-scholarship programs.
Bump
You would be lying.
What's wrong with D2?
A scholarship will be easier to get and you'll get much more racing time throughout your career.
You'll spend less time hanging on to the back of a pack and still dying in workouts.
D1 sounds great, but isn't unless you are going to mix it up even as a freshman.
I had VERY similar times in high school (4:34, 10:16, 17:23) and went D2.
Best choice I could have made.
You are not D1 material. You might find a horrible non-scholarship D1 school to take you, but then you can be one of those 5 guys on the team that finish in the last 5 spots in a CC race.
Find a mediocre D2 team or a D3 team. Not everyone should run D1. You should not.
blazers wrote:
well...... wrote:
This gave you away as a troll.
I would have answered telling you to look up regional results and pick the worst 5 teams in each region for your list. But saying its at a place where they are qualifying nationally is ignorant.
I didn’t mean the team was nationally qualifying I was implying they had individual national qualifiers.
Still bogus. It takes close to sub-4 to qualify for nationals now. A 4:45 runner would be entirely of incapable of training with a team that had guys like that, unless that guy was an outlier and the rest of the team was terrible. Your friends are probably on teams with guys that qualify in OTHER EVENTS.
Or it could be a team like Alabama, where they recruit a bunch of foreign athletes that are amazing but their American runners are all bad.
Alabama had 6 guys run the mike this year. 6th was 4:26 so not as bad as you thought.
The Starved Elephant wrote:
unless that guy was an outlier and the rest of the team was terrible.
Maybe that was it
Dude be realistic here, those times aren't even good enough to get a tryout at some of the worst D1 schools. Go to school for the academics first and then see if you can run. If you're truly passionate about running, you can be good anywhere, with or without a team.