What are some running times that would get noticed for a college scholarship?

Question

I'm a long distance track and cross country runner and was wondering how fast my times would have to be to get noticed for a college scholarship ( just an average college ).

Times for a 1500, mile, 2 mile, 5k, anything would be great.

Answer 1

Under 4:20 in the 1600 and really 4:15 which is sub 4:00 in the 1500.

I would think 9:20 or under in the 3200 and sub 16 in the 5k.

Those times will get you looked at perhaps...

The other thing is to show interest in the schools. Fill out the questionairs they send you. They usually only can read about you and maybe see you at the state meet or nationals, so you have to do a lot of the work for them. They only have a limited amount of times they can even contact you. My daughter is going through it right now. 2:15 800m, 5:00 1600m  11:15 3200m  59.0 400m. Not a ton of schools out there offering a lot of money.

Oh and GRADES! Grades will help a ton. There are not a lot of scholarships for runners out there, but if you have the grades they schools will find other scholarships for you.

I was a 1:56 800m runner, 4:17 1600m, 9:30 3200 (Only ran a couple of times) 15:30 5k cross country and got a half ride in 1984. I was a state champion track and XC. I was a 3.0 student. It seems like those times hold up today. I went to Bowling Green State University, in Ohio.

My friend 2 years later was a 2:00 800m, 4:13 1600m, 9:08 3200m and low 15's 5k. He was also a 4.0 student and got a full ride.  Now, his times were better of course but he was a 4.0 student. He got a full ride to NC State. (Turned out to be a 7 or 8 time all american)

A friend of my son's ran nearly identical times as mine back in the 80's just last year and has a 1/2 scholarship to NC State. He is also a 3.8 student. and has some accademic scholaships too.

Full rides are very rare and I think the one my budy got was really like 3/4 with other money comming from an accademic scholarship the athletic department helped him get.

My advice is to train hard and hit the books just as hard.

Answer 2

1500- 4:10

mile- 4:30

2mile- 9:40

5k- 16:30

those are borderline times for good track colleges

Answer 3

these are about the p.r.'s for a guy that got afull scholarship to Stanford for xc and track

mile- 4:12

2mile- 9:13

5k- 15:46

so maybe a little slower???