There is always discussion regarding how ethnicity plays a role in college admissions. I am in the recruitment process for track and field and I am on a recruitment website called NCSA. The website asks what my ethnicity is and I believe this will be available for coaches to see. I am Indian, and while confident in my abilities, I am unsure weather to say that I am Indian or not. Would I be ruining my chances at being recruited by saying that I am Indian?
No.
Also, you don’t need to spend money on services like NCSA for track recruiting. Just email coaches directly with your marks, grades, test scores.
Coaches don’t care about your ethnicity. They care about your times/distances, then academics to see if you can be accepted. Also I agree with above–it’s not necessary to spend money for track and field recruiting. Track athletes don’t need to show game tapes the way other sports do. Contact the coaches of the schools you are interested in.
I will add to the responses above. Contact the coaches at the schools you are considering. Also many have posted lists of times needed to be competitive or you can look at TFRRS for college times and Athletics.net or Milesplit for high school times to see what is competitive for the schools you are looking at. Track and Field is pretty clear in that times/marks are specific and widely available so you can measure how you stack up based on hard data. Good Luck!
If you go to College Signings: Class of 2023 you can look at the recruiting classes from prior years (and this year) for the schools you are considering. You will need a milesplit account to see what those athletes did in high school - and look at the best times/distances up through junior years since those are probably what they reported on the recruiting forms and got the coaches’ attention. That will help you see where you fit. TFRRS will give you every performance from every athlete at college, but be careful comparing college performances to your HS marks. That can be both a discouraging and a misleading basis for comparison. I’ll echo what others have said - don’t waste your money on recruiting services. Fill out the forms online and follow up with a phone call. Look at the coaching directory and see if they identify a recruiting coordinator - you will generally get faster response if you contact the recruiting person. If they aren’t identified, an email to your event coach and the head coach has worked for us.