Wise Old Man wrote:
RedorGreen wrote:
It really depends on how you are defining walk-on. Some of you are providing anecdotal evidence from your friends, daughters, etc, but in reality it depends on many factors.
Sure, coaches may not respond to your 5:05 or 4:59 daughters email, or may tell you flat out that she will not make it. But many of those coaches are not wanting to give false hope or lure an athlete in with false hope.
But if you are enrolled, at school, and looking to walk on, then that is a different story. At that point it becomes more about attitude, ability to handle workouts, and intangibles towards an upside.
We are not talking by about preferred walk-ons, but rather a true walk-on. I have had a couple of athletes that went to DI schools that had walk-on standards that they did not meet, but enrolled simply to attend school first, and try to run if possible. Those two ended up making the team, receiving money, being all-conference, and winning conference titles, collectively.
We had another girl from our local HS team run 5:00 and 10:45 as a senior. She did this on low mileage (20-25 per week) and she was a great teammate and motivated athlete. She was admitted to Stanford. The coaches would not let her walk on. Our coach called and tried to convince them, but no chance. She joined the Stanford running club instead and she’s now a very solid club road racer post college.
This story doesn't add up, there r plenty of girls getting recruited n scholarships to big time programs with similar times.... 5 and 10 45 is putting u top 5 in almost all states and winning a bunch of them....
5 min mile
1040 2 mile gets u any team in the country
But, u gotta be in that kind of shape, or close, day 1 of practice as a walk on or u might get cut,
Maybe some ran once and then fell off to 520 ish.... different story.... 520 is not keeping up at the best programs....
There's only maybe 20 to 30 girls each class in the whole country who r sub 5 and sub 1040.... so if u r in that range any coach in the country would let u on the team, especially with injuries.....
Anyway gotta be more to it no coach is turning away a girl in 5 minute mile shape.... I bet Stanford has girls who prd around this in HS on team, because I know by and NC state does, and they r best sooo.....