baylorxc

1. I agree that its much easier for girls to get track/cross-country scholarships. Like I said before and Garrett repeated it: Its all footballs fault. They get tons of scholarships just to stack the sidelines. 2. You should look for the school that most fits your needs. I came out of a tiny Class A and i felt like I needed to be on a team with plenty of guys that were faster than me even if that meant sitting out my first year. The most important thing is definetly the coach though. ACU and Adams State are awesome btw. DBU has some good runners as well. 3. I don't believe there is a such thing as D1 caliber runners. Its my belief that you can run as fast as you want to as long as you train hard enough. Example: theres a guy from OSU that ran in the 4:40's in high school but now he runs in the 4:05 range. He even beat one of our guys in the DMR in indoor season.

This is my freshman year and I only got to run cross-country this year due to several injury problems this spring (pretty much the same injury I just kept trying to come back too soon). I ran the 8k mostly and a 10k once. My best 8k was 27:16. I also ran a 6-miler in 32:48. I don't know what i'm going to do in track but I imagine I'll be running 5k and 10k mostly.

Those are some words of wisdom from easttxtrack. You should definetly start looking for a school at least by the summer of your junior year. I could have got offers from some smaller schools. Wayland Baptist and a school in New Mexico were interested but I didnt ever reply to any letters from them. I just wanted to go D-1 even if I had to pay my own way. Another word of advice, most track coaches dont spend alot of time looking for good runners. You should contact coaches at any schools you want to go to. Most schools have online questionaires you can fill out.

I'm a walk-on. I got some academic help from being valedictorian and from a decent SAT score. Thats why the classroom is as important in high school as athletics. I couldn't get an athletic scholarship but since i took care of the grades in high school I could still go D-1.

I bet he didnt get any offers from any D1's. Thats not a knock on either of them btw. Its just that track and cross-country scholarships are real hard to come by. I think schools are only allowed to give out 12 every four years on the men's side which is ridiculous. They hardly ever give full scholarships and rarely give sholarships to distance runners. Only to the super fast 5A guys like Scott Macpherson and such. Sports like football get like 3 or 4 times that many scholarships just so they can stack the sidelines. Oh yeah and East Texas is probably the most under recruited area of the state in distances. Congrats to Felix and Sage on DBU though. I'll be looking foward to racing them in the big leagues sometime soon.