Track and field scholarship?

Question

im currently a sophomore and my times are as follow:

100- 11.5

200- 23.7

400- 52.3

saying i wanna get into a good d1 school, what would be some good times by senior year to get colleges looking at me?

Answer 1

haha honestly? for 100 get under 11.0.. for 200m get under 22.0 and for the 400 get under 49.0 and the d1 schools will wanna recruit you.

Answer 2

National Men's High School Records.  Gives you an idea what you need to do.  

100 10.08 J-Mee Samuels (Mt Tabor, Winston-Salem, North Carolina) Greensboro, North Carolina 7/24/05

200 20.13 Roy Martin (Roosevelt, Dallas, Texas) Austin, Texas 5/11/85

20.13 Roy Martin (Roosevelt, Dallas, Texas) Indianapolis, Indiana 6/16/85

400 44.69 Darrell Robinson (Wilson, Tacoma, Washington) Indianapolis, Indiana 7/24/82

Answer 3

yea youd hav to go sub 11, sub 22 and sub 49 to get a chance. just work your *** off and youll have a shot somewhere. do remeber however-that schools only get a certain amount of scholarships for ALL sports (ex: a school like miami (fl) will put 25 scholarships out of 100 given to football, then another 7 to basketball, and another 8 to baseball,etc...after each sport theres only so much to give to track). junior year-send your information to schools, most have a recruiting info page on their athletics page that you can fill out and send it. this will improve your chances.

keep your grades up too-just being good at sports wont get you a scholarship you need grades to get accepted into the school to get offered anyway.

Answer 4

the following is adapted from one of my previous answers:

a lot of schools have good coaches. many were runners in their prime and have personal experience with it. they all have different coaching strategies and philosophies and you need to research and think about what you would like most.

being a sophomore you don't really need to be thinking about college too much, just concentrate on working hard and improving and colleges will take notice. the first step though is to tell your high school coach that you are interested in running in college and if he has any suggestions. also if there is a particular school you want to run at you should e-mail their coach and let him know because if you start talking to them early and they watch you progress you will have a better shot.

different colleges have different scholarship policies as well based on NCAA rules. D-1 school can give full ride scholarships (but not many runners get a full ride their freshman year, they earn more money as years go by). D-2 schools can only give partial scholarships for athletics and D-3 schools cannot give athletic scholarships. there is a league called the NAIA which is size-wise between D-2 and D-3 but they are not affiliated with the NCAA and so they can give whatever scholarships they want. I am going to one of these schools to run.