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Anonymous wrote:Does he like the xc boys? They tend to have very different personalities than the soccer players at our school.

No, he thinks they are weird, no other way to say it. Soccer players are his posse

XC culture is very inclusive and has a range of personalities and levels, with kids who run extremely slow to some phenomenal standouts. There are usually Friday night dinners with bonfires with boys and girls together. My DD switched to XC her senior year from high school soccer and loved the atmosphere.

A lot of that is because noone gets cut. It's almost more of a running focused village than a sport.

If a sports commitment to a university is in the cards (in any sport) then this may be the time to truly focus.

Getting recruited for a sport with a flat baseline measurement (track, rowing, swimming) is far easier than being 1 of 11 on a team that is like 1000s of other teams in the country. It's much easier to be judged in a sport like cross country than it is soccer.

break 16 he’s good

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Anonymous wrote:That's a recruitable time already. Your DC is fast!

nah, junior year spring 1600 will need following times
big D1 4:07
top ivy 4:10
lower ivy 4:13
patriot league 4:17
top SLAC 4:20

wonderful thing about track (like swimming and other measurable sports), can’t fake a time..

although some milers skew better at 1600/800 than 1600/5k (cross country). Some big time D1 x country runners probably never broke 4:20 at the 1600. But usually kids who can break 5 with no training frosh year are more the slow twitch guys better suited for cross..

Anonymous wrote:That's a recruitable time already. Your DC is fast!

nah, junior year spring 1600 will need following times
big D1 4:07
top ivy 4:10
lower ivy 4:13
patriot league 4:17
top SLAC 4:20

wonderful thing about track (like swimming and other measurable sports), can’t fake a time..

That's a recruitable time already. Your DC is fast!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does he like the xc boys? They tend to have very different personalities than the soccer players at our school.

No, he thinks they are weird, no other way to say it. Soccer players are his posse

XC culture is very inclusive and has a range of personalities and levels, with kids who run extremely slow to some phenomenal standouts. There are usually Friday night dinners with bonfires with boys and girls together. My DD switched to XC her senior year from high school soccer and loved the atmosphere.

+1 It's weird thing to think XC runners are weird. It's a really diverse mix of kids unlike soccer which around here IMO tends to attract the same types of kids. He will find soccer player types and literal soccer players among XC runners. DC found such a group.

Anonymous wrote:my kiddo going into frosh year and has been playing soccer for years - he did the mile time trial in soccer tryouts today, and said he ran something like 4:40. Soccer coach told him you should be running cross country. Don’t really have any context, but is the coach trying to gently dump him?

depends on tone. may have been joking and just saying what a great runner. all things equal, soccer teams would like their players to all be the fastest mile runners in the world. i was reading profiles of the national soccer teams incl u14, u15, u 17 etc all the way up and that is a very common duo - soccer and track.

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Anonymous wrote:My son was deemed a natural at track, and is fastest kid on his high school soccer team, definitely track is his best sport He runs indoor track, but generally finds the sport boring and would never give up soccer for it, despite lots of campaigning from his track coaches. College sports are a grind and I would have your son give serious thought to whether he really enjoys running as a sport before making the switch.

what were his times in track - OP actually provided specific times, which helped provide context. If you provide your sons times it would tell a more
meaningful story - one way or another. If your kid had a “nice to have on team” time,
then the decision to stay on soccer team is obvious

Huh, what do I need to prove to you. Out of thirty freshman, he was the only one to make varsity track.

meaningless comment without the times

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Anonymous wrote:My son was deemed a natural at track, and is fastest kid on his high school soccer team, definitely track is his best sport He runs indoor track, but generally finds the sport boring and would never give up soccer for it, despite lots of campaigning from his track coaches. College sports are a grind and I would have your son give serious thought to whether he really enjoys running as a sport before making the switch.

what were his times in track - OP actually provided specific times, which helped provide context. If you provide your sons times it would tell a more
meaningful story - one way or another. If your kid had a “nice to have on team” time,
then the decision to stay on soccer team is obvious

Huh, what do I need to prove to you. Out of thirty freshman, he was the only one to make varsity track.

Anonymous wrote:My son was deemed a natural at track, and is fastest kid on his high school soccer team, definitely track is his best sport He runs indoor track, but generally finds the sport boring and would never give up soccer for it, despite lots of campaigning from his track coaches. College sports are a grind and I would have your son give serious thought to whether he really enjoys running as a sport before making the switch.

what were his times in track - OP actually provided specific times, which helped provide context. If you provide your sons times it would tell a more
meaningful story - one way or another. If your kid had a “nice to have on team” time,
then the decision to stay on soccer team is obvious

Anonymous wrote:In high school our state champ running back (and basketball small forward) ran track and medaled at the state level. I don't think he ever went to a track practice because that was during baseball season. He just sort of showed up and took the medals. That's how the stories go anyway. He had four or five varsity letters.

Girl like this on our track team too. She loved soccer and made the boys varsity team. (No girls team at the time). She’d show up to cross country and track meets and place first, etc. At some point she did start coming to some practices to get relay experience but mainly she was just there to compete and win, then go back to soccer. Amazing kid.

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Anonymous wrote:Does he like the xc boys? They tend to have very different personalities than the soccer players at our school.

No, he thinks they are weird, no other way to say it. Soccer players are his posse

My son said the same thing. His high school has a summer one week- try cross country academy- for incoming freshman. My son plays another sport where he ended up making varsity as a freshman. His cousin is super shy but wanted to try cross country so my son told his cousin he would go with him so he would know someone. My son did great and ran some fast times. The coach wasn’t happy my son wouldn’t join cross country. But my son said those kids were all nice and it worked out great for his cousin who met people, but they weren’t kids with whom my son felt he had a lot in common or wanted to hang around.

My son was deemed a natural at track, and is fastest kid on his high school soccer team, definitely track is his best sport He runs indoor track, but generally finds the sport boring and would never give up soccer for it, despite lots of campaigning from his track coaches. College sports are a grind and I would have your son give serious thought to whether he really enjoys running as a sport before making the switch.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does he like the xc boys? They tend to have very different personalities than the soccer players at our school.

No, he thinks they are weird, no other way to say it. Soccer players are his posse

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