Any input on what track times top D3 schools want their female recruits to hit? specifically in the 800, 1500, and 3000?
Here are the last 4 from our HS. There are others that went to lesser programs than the east coast schools you said you are looking at that I didn’t include here. Certainly some D3 programs aren’t much more than an extension of high school.
- 2:16, 4:40, 10:33
- 2:20, 4:56, 12:04
- 2:29, 5:08, 11:08
- 2:31, 4:52, 10:59
1 was also recruited D1 but went D3 and is top 5 on her XC team. #3 and #4 went to one of the top D3 programs in the country but are not on the A team (large roster). Hope this helps.
You can also go to tfrrs.org to check out top performances by conference and team. Generally coaches will want potential conference meet points in order to use a support slot on a recruit. But this is the sort of thing that’s going to vary so much by team and year, even within the same conference, that your best answer will come from coaches.
^^^great source of college performances. Just don’t be discouraged comparing them to your soph/junior year HS times. Another option is to find the freshman that are where you would like to be on the team and go to milesplit to look at their HS times. You will need a milesplit account to look at athlete stats. Your coach might have one if you don’t want to pay the $$.
You can also find helpful statistics on Athletics.net, and I don’t think there is any cost. Also, once you have some prospective schools on your list, go online and look at their roster and performance statistics. You may be able to get a sense not only where your times would fit in but also whether a school has, say, a whole bunch of freshman and sophomores in your events or whether they are junior/senior top-heavy.
super helpful, thanks everyone!
If you have a specific school in mind go to its team page, pull up their schedule from last year and check out some meets throughout the season. Be sure to examine the conference meet results to see where you’d really stand, and maybe get exposed to some similar schools you might not have heard of before.
In addition to @StPaulDad ‘s good advice, look up the athlete’s’ 11th grade times on athletic.net or milesplit to see where they stood when they were recruited.
Exactly this. Look at conference point scorers (and the teams current roster) and see what they ran junior year in high school. The conference point scorer’s 11th grade high school times provide a great benchmark. and would be desired recruits. The current rosters 11th grade times show what the coach has been able to recruit.