About Trackbeast
Built by the families
living the recruiting grind.
College track & field recruiting is noisy, expensive, and stacked against families who don’t already know how the system works. Most high school athletes apply blind — no real sense of where their marks make them competitive, what a program actually needs, or how NIL works in their state.
Trackbeast replaces that guesswork with data. We pair one of the most complete databases of programs, coaches, rosters, and performance marks anywhere with the tools a family needs to run their own recruiting: find the programs where an athlete’s marks fit, reach the right coaches, and track every step.
The founders
Eric Avila
Co-Founder & Head of Coaching · Founder, San Diego Elite
Eric was a high school star in San Diego who earned a scholarship to Northern Arizona University — one of the most decorated distance programs in the country — before transferring to Southern Oregon. From there he built a professional running career that lasted more than a decade: a 3:35 1500m runner, a two-time U.S. Olympic Trials finalist, and a USATF national champion at the mile.
That career led him into coaching, and into building Trackbeast's coaching side from the ground up: elite training principles should be accessible to every serious high school athlete — not just the ones at top programs with big budgets. As founder of San Diego Elite, he's coached numerous professional runners alongside developing high schoolers into D1 scholarship recipients — including two athletes now headed to Stanford. Every Trackbeast coaching program runs through his system. Eric owns coaching, the pro team, events, and the coach network.
San Diego Elite
Pro track & field team
2× Olympic Trials
1500m finalist
USATF Champion
National title, the Mile
D1 + Pro Placements
Scholarships & pro contracts
Adam Dailey
Founder & CEO · Head Coach, La Jolla High School
Adam earned a track scholarship to the University of Arkansas, where he was part of nine NCAA team titles — the winningest program in NCAA history — and left a five-time NCAA All-American. His wife is a 12-time NCAA All-American from the same program. Track was more than a sport for him: it was his fraternity, the discipline that shaped everything after it.
That discipline carried into 25 years building a career in sports marketing and real estate. Then his daughter Chiara became a serious runner, and it all came full circle — Adam got back into coaching to help her, now Head Coach at La Jolla High School, and got pulled straight into her recruiting process wearing three hats: coach, dad, and agent. What he found floored him: recruiting had completely changed since he ran in the 1990s. Chiara was top 2–3 in her class nationally — and she still had to reach out to most schools herself. Nobody was just showing up.
The process was murky, and nobody he found actually understood how it worked anymore — not with 25 years in sports marketing, not with a network of coaches and other recruiting dads to call. He pieced it together himself, the hard way. Chiara signed with Stanford and closed a HOKA NIL deal. Trackbeast is that same system — the data, the process, the playbook — built so every family can run it, not just the ones with a coach for a dad.
9x NCAA Champion
Arkansas team titles
5x All-American
NCAA Track & Field
25 Years
Sports marketing & real estate
Stanford + HOKA NIL
USATF U20 Champion, Team USA
Athletes we've coached and advised have landed at
Why you can trust the data
A recruiting platform is only as good as what’s under the hood. Here’s what’s under ours.
980+
College programs
4,700+
Coaches with contact info
130,000+
Verified performance marks
21,000+
Recruits tracked
Counts verified against our database · Data updated July 11, 2026
Real marks, not estimates
Every program’s standard comes from actual results its athletes have run, jumped, and thrown — compiled from official rosters, meet results, and public performance records. We show where your marks fit against real rosters, not a generic “recruiting standard.”
Built event by event
Sprints, distance, hurdles, jumps, throws, and multis are each handled on their own terms. A program that’s deep in the 800 may have a wide-open throws roster — we surface that instead of treating a school as one number.
Kept current
Rosters turn over and coaches move. We refresh programs, coaches, and marks on an ongoing basis so a family isn’t emailing a coach who left two seasons ago.
Honest about the limits
We don’t guarantee scholarships, admission, or that a coach will write back. What we do is remove the guesswork so your outreach goes to the programs where your athlete actually fits.
How we validate BeastMatch
Anyone can claim their matching works. We test ours against what actually happened — and publish the results.
15,700+
Real signings the engine is tested against, leave-one-out, across every division — 6,400 of them Division I.
88%
Of the time, the athlete’s real destination lands in the range BeastMatch rated a fit for their marks.
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Cherry-picked success stories. Every miss counts — the backtest runs across every division and event group.
Real signings, called before we checked the answer
Five of the 6,400 Division I signings in the backtest — the engine saw only the high-school marks, with the athlete's own mark removed from the pool, and rated the school a fit before we looked at where they actually signed. Anonymized; every signing is in the same public data you can browse on this site.
Boys · 1600m
4:05.79
Washington
rated a fit → signed at Stanford
Girls · 400m
53.30
Texas
rated a fit → signed at Georgia
Boys · 110m hurdles
13.65
Texas
rated a fit → signed at Texas A&M
Girls · long jump
21′ 0.25″
California
rated a fit → signed at Oregon
Girls · shot put
45′ 2″
Massachusetts
rated a fit → signed at Penn State
Accuracy by event group
Division I backtest, verified July 10, 2026. We publish the weak spots too — throws data is the thinnest and it shows. Counting the misses is the point.
What counts as “a fit”
For each event we take the actual high-school marks of every athlete a program has signed and build that program's signed range. A program is a fit for your athlete if their mark lands at or above that program's slowest signee in the event (within a small cushion). If your mark is behind a program's entire signed range, it's a reach — reaches are not counted as fits.
88% is a leave-one-out test. We remove each real 2025-26 signee from the data, run the engine on only their high-school marks, and check whether the program that actually signed them was one the engine rated a fit. Division I: 88% of the time, it was.
A fit is a shortlist, not a single guess — so we also publish rank. Across Division I the school an athlete actually signed with had a median rank of 99 out of ~340 programs and landed in the engine's top 25 about 17% of the time. BeastMatch narrows ~340 programs down to the ones where your marks are competitive; it does not claim to name your one destination.
Versus a simpler model. Ordering programs without the signing-history signal — closer to how the free roster-fit tool ranks — put the actual school in the top 25 about 9% of the time. Weighting by proximity to what each program has actually signed nearly doubled that to 17%.
Accuracy by division
Lower divisions hit a few points lower mostly because their high-school mark data is thinner — a missing mark reads as a false reach — not because the engine is weaker there. The all-division test covers 15,755 signings; 6,400 are Division I.
Where the data comes from. Program rosters, official meet results, public performance records, coach directories, and federal athletics filings (budgets and athletic aid). Every public stat on this site is counted directly from that database — the same numbers members see.
How the test works. We take athletes who already went through recruiting, feed BeastMatch only what it would have known — their high school marks — and check whether the program that actually signed them shows up where the engine said they fit. Then we do it again every time the model or the data changes. When a change makes the number worse, it doesn't ship.
What we don't claim. BeastMatch predicts fit, not offers. It can't know a coach's remaining budget, a roster spot that opened yesterday, or how your athlete interviews. What it removes is the guesswork about where your marks put you — so every email goes to a program where the numbers say you belong on the list.
See where your athlete fits.
Enter one PR — free, no account needed — and find the programs that match.