![]() ![]() It is a numbers game for college coaches because we know that we are going to get more no’s than yes’s, says Click To Tweet Among all the college track and field programs, there are only 69,710 student athletes competing in college. There are over one million high school athletes that participate in track and field. If we include NCAA Division II and III, plus NAIA and junior colleges, there are a total of 1,272 track and field programs. There are 341 NCAA Division I programs in the country. Let us look at the following stats to further drive the point home: It is a numbers game for college coaches because we know that we are going to get more no’s than yes’s and we only have a limited number of scholarships to give out. ![]() In all actuality, coaches are sending out hundreds of letters and questionnaires to kids across the country in order to gather information to create a profile for those athletes that will fit their program’s standards. They post their excitement on social media without understanding that receiving a letter in the mail, asking for basic information, does not mean they are being recruited by that university. Many athletes feel that they are being recruited or looked at if a college coach sends them a letter or questionnaire in the mail. Now that I have provided you with the reality that obtaining a college track and field scholarship is not a simple process, I want to address some myths that a lot of people believe when it comes to the college recruiting process. This will be different based on each institution and the cost of tuition. However, based on years of data from the NCAA reviewing national letters of intent (NLIs) and looking at the offers that have been given throughout the country, the national average scholarship amount is less than $18,000 a year. Unfortunately, many think it is quite easy to obtain a full-ride scholarship if the athlete runs fast. This is an important factor to understand when beginning the recruiting process. There are years’ worth of data, collected by the NCAA and other institutions, that has shown the percentage of high school kids in the country that get a track and field scholarship, at any level, as being less than 6% for men and women. The most important thing to understand is the reason why it is so hard to get a track and field scholarship. ![]() Every parent and athlete at the high school level dreams about obtaining a college track and field scholarship, but the realities of obtaining such a scholarship are difficult. As a former Division I track and field coach that has spent 14 years coaching in the Division I ranks and is now coaching in the private sector, I have come to realize that many athletes, parents, and coaches are not educated enough about the realities of college recruiting when it comes to track and field. ![]() Cut out.College recruiting can be a daunting and stressful process for high school track and field athletes and their parents. Still, not something you would want to devote large chunks of your time and reality to. Surprisingly, it’s McCartney‘s ‘Plastic Beetle’ that comes off best using tapes of The Beatles made between 1965-69 and Liverpudlian field recordings, he mixes buoyant loops, Mercury Rev-style zitherings and interjections of, ”John’s broken a string”, to oddly moving effect. The Super Furries‘ track ‘Peter Blake 2000’ is like spending an eternity in the company of an over-enthusiastic drum tech Youth‘s ‘Real Gone Dub Made In Manifest In The Vortex Of The Eternal Now’ sounds about as exciting as the title. In the less rarefied surroundings of your own home – Sunday papers, biscuits and CD cases making your own individual …Collage – it’s less symbiotic. Doubtless as you wander through The Liverpool Tate’s white spaces, wondering how Robbie Williams was included alongside Claes Oldenburg and Kurt Schwitters, the babble of field-recordings and loops would be suitable ambient noise. Of course, in keeping with the high concept, ‘Liverpool Sound Collage’ should really be judged in terms of functional art. Not even the extension of a royal invitation to Super Furry Animals and Youth to collaborate can stop the whole project from sounding like it’s heading down UFO (obscure ’60s psychedelic club – Ed) later on. Unsurprisingly, Paul McCartney orchestrated the whole thing, and his idea of greeting the electronic future head-on hasn’t really evolved since he predicted Radiohead’s fame-angst by pretending to be Stockhausen for a bit all those years ago. There’s something endearingly dated about this record, a “sound collage” commissioned to accompany Peter Blake’s exhibition at the Liverpool Tate. Upstairs, a video installation depicting rampant nudity, while another artist paints himself blue as a protest against Vietnam. ![]()
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