Office Hours: Comparing the NCAA Division I vs. Division III Cross Country Experience

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🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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“I think the thing that characterizes DII, DIII and NAIA athletes is that they're super passionate about running in a way that differs from DI athletes. I always see the DIII guys and gals who are going to keep running well after college. They love it and that’s why they’re going to the smaller schools out of high school – because they want that opportunity to keep running. There’s way more passion rather than ‘I’m the best at this and there’s a scholarship on the line so I may as well do it.’”

The Lap Count’s Kyle Merber and Noah Droddy, 2:09 marathoner and D3 Glory Days Podcast host, talk through their experience covering the 2023 NCAA Cross Country Championships. Kyle was on the call for the ESPN broadcast for Division I while Noah was behind the mic for the Division III stream on YouTube.

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0:00.0	Make Match days easy with Google Pay.
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0:05.0	Say look at the merch store,
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0:09.0	Fast, safe, simple.
0:11.0	Match days made easy with Google Pay.
0:13.5	Add a card to your Google wallet.
0:15.0	All right, Kyle, we're here joined by Noah Drotti,
0:19.0	known probably primarily for being a good marathoner,
0:22.0	but more importantly.
0:24.4	The announcer of this year is D3 and Assembly Cross Country
0:27.9	Championships.
0:28.9	I just wrapped up doing the D1 broadcasts and I thought it would be fun to sit down, compare and contrast the differences,
0:36.2	have a little opportunity for you to tell me about what happened at D3 Nationals.
0:40.6	I did watch your broadcast, but I think that you could probably speak to it better than I could and ultimately everyone always gets angry at the LAP count newsletter during a Cyblay championship weekends because I don't give D2, D3, NAA,
1:00.8	I coverage, quite the coverage that I give D1 Nationals.
1:04.0	And so you are the ambassador there to tell us everything,
1:08.8	but also tell us why we should.
1:11.0	So Noah, thanks for on a whim sitting down and having this conversation.
1:15.8	Yeah, it's absolutely my pleasure. I hope I do the D3 world justice here in pleading our case.
1:22.4	I mean, to be honest with you, I forget that D1. justice here and pleading our case.
1:22.9	I mean, to be honest with you, I forget that D1s happens every year
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