Should I go to the school were I will be varsity freshmen year or the school where I may not make varsity but develop more as a runner, all thoughts are welcomed
Should I go to the school were I will be varsity freshmen year or the school where I may not make varsity but develop more as a runner, all thoughts are welcomed
larshoneytoast12 wrote:
Should I go to the school were I will be varsity freshmen year or the school where I may not make varsity but develop more as a runner, all thoughts are welcomed
What is more important to you: the immediate gratification of being on varsity or your long term development?
Go to whichever school is more convenient. either will be fine for running.
Youngster,
Think about ACADEMICS, then ATHLETICS.
Do not assume you will be CHAMP.
Be humble.
Finally - Get off the internet and read a book. Running is the last thing you should worry about.
Now!
Getting better should be prioritized no D1 school is gonna care what your times were freshmen year
stop asking this question. nobody knows. pick the high school you're districted for and make it work like a normal person.
You should go to the slower school so that you can be the fastest runner on the team some day.
Don’t pick your high school based on the track team. Don’t even pick your college based on the track team
(1) academics (2) affordability and only then (3) sports. i used sports as a college choice tiebreaker among schools i felt were already good enough and cheap enough.
re "immediate gratification," that analysis struck me as misguided and oversimplified. you want a happy medium of opportunity, coaching, and such. you want a nice long stint on varsity, not just a senior year or a chance. you want good coaching where the kids develop. but you are only getting the focus of that coaching attention if they don't have a jillion other talented kids to share that attention. i had friends on my state champ select soccer team who got dumped senior year as we pursued superteam status. i had HS track buddies stuck behind D1 recruits on a very good preceding team who got a grand total of one senior year on varsity and struggled to get recruited off what they did. so i don't buy the road to sure success is sit in line at a talent factory. the last rookie at the talent factory is not its focus. the last rookie at the talent factory has to fight his way through a mess of other talent as new freshman sign up chasing the same dream. it's the walk-on's fantasy brought down to HS.
you never want to be the complete runt of the litter in a competitive situation. you want to be safely up the pecking order, either big fish in a small pond or medium fish in the big one, where investment is made in your future and you aren't one recruiting class away from oblivion.
and, yeah, you don't want to go to a bad school where you jump right to varsity AND they can't coach, but the poster is assuming the kids at the straight-to-varsity school don't get coached or progress. surely this can be fact-checked using athletic/milesplit. there is a difference between small team short of bodies and absolute suckage. kind of like i learned long ago, in scouting terms, that a kid stuck on the bench is not the same as a kid playing poorly. it's bad data vs. an absence of data.
Don't pick a high school based on running. As long as both schools have active programs and have proven they can develop decent runners pick the school that has better academics.
Maybe his parents are rich enough to where he can go to a private school if he wants to and that's why he's asking.