How will the NCAA’s new scholarship rules affect college track and field?
The NCAA has changed its rules for division 1 sports. It is clear that revenue sharing and the new scholarship rules exist in favor of big-time football. But what will happen to college track and field programs as a result? The truth is there will be a lot of unintended consequences.
2024 D1 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Conference Championship Tracker
Keep track of everything going on at the outdoor conference championships, all around D1. Remember that it is incredibly hard to win a championship anywhere in the NCAA, no matter what conference you are competing in.
Parker Valby’s Indoor NCAA Championship is proof she has no competition in college
The truth is that Parker Valby is the most dominant distance runner in college now. But it is also 100 percent of accurate that simply finishing the sentence there is an understatement.
How did All-American Salif Mane end up jumping for Fairleigh Dickinson?
Salif Mane is one of the best track and field athletes in the entire nation, and has been for a while now. But he competes for a program that almost nobody knew existed at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Christopher Morales Williams is only 19, and the fastest man to ever run the 400 meter dash indoors!
Christopher Morales Williams won the 400 meter indoors at the SEC championships in 44.49 seconds. That is a not only the fastest time in the NCAA, but the fastest one ever recorded all-time.
2024 D1 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Conference Championship Tracker
Keep track of everything going on at the conference championships, all around D1. Remember that it is incredibly hard to win a championship anywhere in the NCAA, no matter what conference you are competing in.
Jameesia Ford is the fastest woman in college, and a legitimate Olympic threat for team USA!
What Jameesia Ford is doing right now, is not only a problem for every team in the NCAA. It is a threat to every fast woman in America, which includes all the pros.
Wes Ferguson is one of America’s best distance runners, but runs in Division 2!
Wes Ferguson is one of the fastest 800 meter runners in all of college. He has been for some time now. But most fans don’t know who he is because he doesn’t run in Division 1.
Ethan Exilhomme is one of the best hurdlers in the NCAA at Northeastern University
Ethan Exilhomme was a five star recruit, and is now one of the best hurdlers in the NCAA. However, unlike most recruits like him, he chose to compete for Northeastern University in the CAA conference.
Isabella Whittaker is one of the fastest women in college without a scholarship
Isabella Whittaker runs in the Ivy League which doesn’t give out athletic scholarships. Which is why it seems to be a surprise that she is one of the fastest 400 meter runners in the NCAA!
Jonah Vigil is one of the fastest 400 meter runners in college, but chose to go Division 2
Jonah Vigil is one of the fastest runners in college, regardless of division. He chooses to run for D2 Adams State University, but he could have transferred out a while ago.
Did the transfer portal save the sprinting career of Jacious Sears?
Jacious Sears is currently the collegiate leader in the 60 and 200 meter dashes. She was always supposed to be this good, but did not perform like it until she transferred to the University of Tennessee.
How Cheickna Traore went from D3 transfer to 1 of the fastest men in college!
Cheickna Traore is one of the best sprinters in all of college track and field, but he was not supposed to be this fast! Which is why he was never recruited to compete in Division 1, or Division 2.
Alyssa Colbert is a threat to win the NCAA 60 meter dash
Right now Alyssa Colbert of Texas Tech University is tied for the fastest woman in all of college. She arrived there via the transfer portal. And now she has a chance to embarrass every high level program who passed up on her, not once but twice.
Ryan Wilson is a D3 NCAA champion, and a threat to win again in D1
Ryan Wilson ran his entire college career at D3 MIT. And he has been so dominant winning championships at the D3 level, that he likely could have won an NCAA championship by now in Division 1. Which is finally where he will be competing this season.
Tye Hunt quit football. Now he’s one of the best long jumpers in college!
Tye Hunt was a football player who was not even supposed to be a track athlete in college. But now he has a chance to shock the world, and every college coach who passed up on him, by out jumping the entire nation.
Why did nobody recruit Kalen Walker, one of the NCAA’s fastest men?
Kalen Walker opened his indoor season running 6.59 seconds which is likely fast enough to book his tickets for the NCAA meet right now. He is not yet the favorite to win anything at the NCAAs, but his journey to the top of the leaderboards is also very unexpected.
How did Graham Blanks win an NCAA Championship without a scholarship?
Graham Blanks is a distance running superstar who has studied the blueprint to become NCAA royalty in the modern era. In fact that he is now the king of the track, even without an athletic scholarship.
The best freshman ladies in college track and field
This is a breakdown of the top 5 freshmen, on the ladies side who have the potential to dominate the NCAA this season.
Katelyn Tuohy just turned pro! A look back at her legacy
No athlete has ever been as dominant as Katelyn was at the in high school, and built up as much hype as a result of it. But now that she has won many championships in college, it’s time we acknowledge that we are all witnesses to her greatness.