What considerations are unique to the world of women's track and field scholarships?

Neil Longenbaugh leads the charge for this year's version of the Red Army. Photo contributed by Gary Murray.

Photo by Tracy Rollins - Ohio started its High School Cross Country championships 82 years ago in 1928.  Only an elite group, composed of five individuals, has won three individual titles.  The last was Vincent Fries from Div. III Attica Seneca East in 1994-95 and 1997.  The last Div. I, three-time individual, champion was 22 years ago when George Nicholas of Dayton Meadowdale set his marks from 1978-80.  This year, Zach Wills of  Mason has the rare opportunity to join this elite club of runners.  He is the two-time defending Div. I State Champion.

Livingston HS senior Jeramy Ekkaim had, to put it mildly, a breakout year on the track. Can that monster success be repeated out on the trails this Fall. Elkaim took on NJRunners' 10 Questions recently...   

... or several important facts you should know about the availability of college track and field scholarships.

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Nike and flrunners.com are partnering again this year to bring you the FLRUNNERS.COM INVITATIONAL 11 PRESENTED BY NIKE.  We are excited to renew our vow to bring you a high-quality meet that is among the largest, more competitive, and well-run cross country meets in the country.  As part of that announcement, we are pumped to be able to finally tell you that our special guest this year will be newly-minted American 10K record-holder and Nike athlete CHRIS SOLINKSY.  We hope it will be the meet you circle on your calendar and look back on fondly for years to come! 

In this installment, we take a look at a few questions to help you dig inside what the personality of your potential college coach is like.

An updated look at several issues the college-bound athlete wants to take into consideration.

 Photo Above:  Aron Taylor, left and David Taylor, right.  

MileSplit has a huge database of performances nationwide that numbers in the tens of millions.  We love to utilize this data to generate various rankings, virtual meets, and scoring systems.  Many people feel that time-based cross country rankings are worthless. I would disagree with those people and feel it is a valuable tool when used in context.  However, obviously is is hard to get an accurate picture by just looking at times with so many variations between courses.  We are in the process of deriving a scoring system, the first step of which is to design a statistically sound rating system of thousands of courses nationwide.

Kendall Baisden, MI, and Kamaria Brown, LA, set AAU National Records in the 400's.  (Photos by John Herzog, MileStat.com)