<p>hello, I'm a male sophomore, running track and cross country, and i am hoping to be recruited to run at either Dartmouth, Brown, or Yale. here's my general profile:
-4.0GPA going into junior year (took all honors courses fresh/soph years)
-in my highschool's highest band
-will be taking pre-calc and 3APs junior year(bio,eng,u.s.hist) and multiple APs senior year
My strongest track events are the 1600m-4:38, and 800m-2:03. im hoping to greatly improve these times next year! any feedback would be greatly appreciated!<br>
(as for cross country, i was injured sophomore year, so i will see how i do junior year) my last 5k was 17:40.</p>
<p>I think you’re in pretty good shape, Teddy. If you’re down in the 1:58 range next year and do well on your SATs, you’ll have some coaches interested. Whether or not Dartmouth, Brown or Yale will be looking for mid-distance guys is out of your control, so expand your search.</p>
<p>Varska said…**“Whether or not Dartmouth, Brown or Yale will be looking for mid-distance guys is out of your control, so expand your search.” **</p>
<p>Excellent and priceless advice for anyone in any recruited sport IMHO! The same can be said for baseball if you are a shortstop. Diversify your search, and cast a wide net to find the team that is looking for your specific skills. This will save you a lot of time and effort in the long run (no pun intended for OP).</p>
<p>Teddy - great stats, keep up the good work, and best of luck!</p>
<p>these guidelines may help … [Men’s</a> Track Recruiting Guidelines](<a href=“http://www.ncsasports.org/recruiting-tools/College-Track-Recruiting/mens-track-recruiting-guidelines]Men’s”>http://www.ncsasports.org/recruiting-tools/College-Track-Recruiting/mens-track-recruiting-guidelines). The IVYies tend to be on the low end of tier I of the DI times.</p>
<p>I agree with the advice to cast a wide net … have a great year in both track and school. I’d also suggest you contact schools in which your interested to start a conversation with them; most team web-pgaes either have either a recruiting link or the coaches email address! (a lot more recruiting is initiated by the student than most people realize; especially below the national level recruits). Good luck!</p>
<p>thanks for the great advice. any other feedback or ideas would be very helpful! things like times ivies like, how much recruitment can help with admission, and info on these individual schools track/running programs would be great. the more advice the better! thanks</p>
<p>teddy, search “likely letter” on this forum. That’s the Ivy version of LOI and now would be a great time to start understanding the process. You can also start stalking the Ivy team rosters to see how fast those guys ran in high school, and whether there might be room for someone like you on the team. Best wishes. Your planning is solid.</p>
<p>thanks, any additional advice or feedback is appreciated!</p>
<p>Your ability to get recruited depends a lot on your ultimately to get your 1600 down to about 4:20 or less … one poster in one of your threads mentioned your current training; if your current times are based on heavy milage and a lot of speed work than you may not improve that much over the next couple years however if you training up to now has been pretty light there is more hope to improve a lot. </p>
<p>One thing I’d like to add to that … when I was talking to IVYies as a miler/2-miler one of the first questions they asked me was what was my quarter time … and unfortunatley for me my 59 second quarter and my relatively high training load in high school indicated less potential to be a high level college runner and limited my recruiting level (and I was a 4:27/9:43 guy who got hurt my last season who probably would have been 4:24/9:35 or so if not hurt and still was not a IVY level recruit because I just was not good enough and did not have enough potential to improve a lot.)</p>
<p>excellent advice, 3togo.</p>
<p>thank you for the great advice, i’m glad to hear what you say about the potential for me if i haven’t been doing a large load of mileage… and i had not been! i have already spoken with my coach and she believes i could run in college, and we’ve agreed on stepping-up my mileage. this summer already ive been running 6-8 miles a day and will increase that mileage toward the end of the summer. i never trained this much before, so hopefully it will provide a jump in times in both track and cross country. and it seems as though almost everyone recruited for the ivies have a 5k which is sub 16… i hope i can get there with my training everyday this summer.</p>
<p>any other feedback or advice would be great!
thanks</p>
<p>Also, like Varska said, diversify your search. This should include expanding into the d3 range. If you’re fine with a smaller school environment check out Williams, Amherst, or Middlebury. Other larger d3 schools include Johns Hopkins, MIT, Tufts, etc. Your current times themselves could put you in a great spot for d3 recruiting. Sorry that all these schools are on the east coast, this is where most of my expertise lies.</p>
<p>i’m actually mainly interested in east coast schools. would you say my academic stats are looking good? what would be a good goal for my SAT? and do you think most people experience a jump in times during junior year?(thats what im hoping for… so i will have a good shot at recruitment) Any personal experiences with running or this whole process would be great!</p>
<p>Here are some western/midwestern schools with strong academics and DIII track programs:</p>
<p>University of Chicago
Occidental (LA)
Pomona/Pitzer (LA)
Colorado College
Whitman (Washington State)</p>