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

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

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)