seniors vaulting in college

[pv4life]

is there any vaulters here that are seniors in high school and are going to vault in college? If so where are you from and what college are you going to vault @? I attend a small school in Northwest Ohio and I am going to vault @ Eastern Michigan in the fall.

[C-townvault]

I'm looking to vault at University of Cincinnati, Purdue U, or U of Akron.
Wanna make my decision soon and not have to worry about anymore deadlines.

[izzystikchik]

Yeah i'm a girl looking to vault in college and my primaries are Marquette, University of Illinois and Wisconsin-Madison.

C-townvault
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:59 pm Post subject:
I'm looking to vault at University of Cincinnati, Purdue U, or U of Akron.
Wanna make my decision soon and not have to worry about anymore deadlines.

I agree too. I wish i knew where i want to go so i can hurry up and make a decision.

[pv4life]

well it was between University of Findlay, Tiffin University, or Eastern Michigan University. I got accepted to all 3 but my decision was made b/c Eastern Michigan is a Division 1 school and Findlay & Tiffin are D 2. Plus Eastern Michigan is 13 thousand a year and Findlay is 28 thousand and Tiffin is 22 thousand.

[riskafall]

I think I'm going to michigan too! but u of m. I still want to hear from UNC, but i'm almost positive i'm going to umich.

[Aviendha]

i'd really like to go to Washington U in STL, but yeah...40k a year? don't think that one's gonna happen...i won't even know if i'm accepted till april. they're a div III school, but I don't really care about that, i'm only a 9-6 vaulter right now, and i just want to vault anyway. the coach still hasn't gotten back to me about vaulting either...:-( i filled out the online recruit form thingy last week or so, and haven't heard anything...they already have three girl vaulters though, so maybe they don't want any more...

but yeah, if WashU doesn't happen, I'm gonna go to U of MO Rolla, they're div II, but again, don't really care, and they don't have ANY girl vaulters right now, so they want me lol :-) i've earned a 12k scholarship there (total cost ~14k....the 12k is the highest they give)

[izzystikchik]

Hey Aviendha,

You say that you've already filled out a recruit form for the school you want to go to but you haven't heard back from them right?
Have you tried contacting the head coach, or pv coach of that school directly? If you want to get their attention you have to be loud and let yourself be known, show them that you've got the desire and the potential to help out the team. I had that same problem with quiet coaches, but i started to get the emails going, and if after awhile they didn't respond i would send in another one to maybe the assistant coach letting them know i was intersted. You don't know how often the athletic coaches will go through their recruit piles, depends if they really need a person to fill in for a certain event. It helped me get accepted to my schools even though i'm not scholarship material (hopefully soon though i need the $$$$).
All i'm sayin is that it doesn't hurt to drop a few hello's directly to the coaches know and then.

[riskafall]

i agree with itzystikchick...if you really want to go to a school, you should contact the coach directly. alot of the coaches i emailed though never got back to me, so i called them... I even found the coach's home phone # for u mich and called him at home to set up a meeting when i visited.
goodluck with colleges

[rainbowgirl28]

You'd be Wash U's #2 vaulter, so I am sure they'd love to have you on the team. Don't know how much they can help you out financially since DIII can't give athletic scholarships.

You know we can always get you a good deal to go to Lindenwood

[VaultBrad]

im live in rhode island and im vaulting at the university of tennessee next year. i cant wait

"you should contact the coach directly"

i agree comletely with this. you have to be assertive and make it known that you are interested in learning more and or becoming a part of the team who's coach you are contacting.

[CHC04Vault]

My friend and former teammate is on Wash U's XC and Track teams, he said its a very good school (though he is gettin wiped academically) and that the coaches are very friendly and glad he picked it over Duke and Johns Hopkins...just some food for thought

[PVPirate26]

i hope to be vaulting for emory next year!!

in my experience, contacting the coaches directly seems to give the best results. it took schools forever to respond to the recruit forms i sent in so i just e-mailed the coaches.