<p>I know that you can walk-on the Yale Crew team. Do any harvard teams have a similar policy for people with no experience? How much of a time commitment is sports at Harvard?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure the women's soccer team allows walk-ons, because my daughter is planning to do just that. She seemed to have looked into the possibilities. I'm not sure, but perhaps many sport teams at H allow walk-ons. Whether she or any other walk-on athlete ever makes the traveling team is, of course, another question.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure you can walk on. I'm being recruited for track, but when I looked at some of the times for the team, it was obvious that some people weren't recruited.</p>
<p>Walk-ons are ultra-welcome at Harvard. I was recruited for track (koala, are you coming to visit us soon?!?!) but there are lots of walk-ons on many teams at Harvard.</p>
<p>With regards to Crew, OP--SO MANY PEOPLE walk on to Crew their freshman year.</p>
<p>koala, if you don't mind my asking - what are your times for the 400/800?</p>
<p>My daughter runs a 59/2:19. While she knows that's too slow to be recruited, she'd at least like to know it would be OK to walk-on. </p>
<p>So far, she hasn't heard from any of the Ivy coaches to whom she's written (multiple times!).</p>
<p>sunglasses - yes!!! :D Some time in early october... not quite sure of the exact date yet. I AM SO EXCITED!!! i'll keep you posted. :)</p>
<p>Tactics - i will PM you.</p>
<p>EDIT: hmmm, you don't have PM enabled... is it okay if I email you?</p>
<p>Either way is fine. I just now enabled PM (if I did it correctly).</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>oh okay</p>
<p>i'll PM you then :)</p>
<p>you can walk-on for crew?!
sweeet.</p>
<p>tactics--I run for Harvard. Your daughter should definitely talk to our coaches.</p>
<p>I'm at Brown for the semester and was suprised at how, err, "slow" the times were for last spring's Heps. How were the conditions at the meet, sunglasses? I see a +4.1 wind and people running 10.55 to win the 100 and I'm thinking that something's up.</p>
<p>Maybe it's just me being used to the whole Conference-USA scene and being spoiled by the talent in the league (LaShawn Merritt had a World Record at one point last winter in the indoor 400; Cleavon Dillon jumping 25+ feet every single meet, running 10.20 in the 100; 21.70 just to be top TWENTY in the conference in the 200), but I'm really liking Brown and considering transferring permanently if I can run for them. </p>
<p>I'm not anywhere on the level of Cleavon or LaShawn or those guys in C-USA (would've been 25th in the league with an 11.02 in the 100 NWI) but in the Ivy League, that'd put me top 7 or so before the wind. . .say a low 10.7x with that ridiculous wind and I'm thinking I might be coming to New England if only for the sake of running next year.</p>
<p>if you walk on to the team (especially crew), will you be placed on the travelling team? And how demanding / time consuming are sports at Harvard</p>
<p>^i have the same questions.</p>
<p>I assume that Harvard is like most schools: you will get placed on the traveling team if you turn out to be talented enough to beat out one of the recruited athletes for a spot on the varsity.</p>
<p>My understanding is that there are way too few kids who row crew in high school for Harvard (or any other school) to field a boat without relying heavily on walkons. Freshman year I remember teams strongly encouraging people to try out.</p>
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<p>Freshman year I remember teams strongly encouraging people to try out.</p>
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<p>Yep, and that's doubly true of women. Most of the female rowers I knew were already athletes, but they'd never rowed before college.</p>
<p>It really depends on the sport. </p>
<p>Truth to tell, the day of the walkon is pretty much gone by in many sports. </p>
<p>Schools can't afford the risk that people won't show up for a scheduled sport, so they recruit like crazy in order to insure full rosters.</p>