PROGRAM DNA · NAIA WOMEN'S · HJ, PV, LJ, TJ
Best NAIA women's programs for jumps
Not who is famous: who invests. A typical NAIA women's roster puts 16% of its athletes in jumps. The programs at the top of this list carry and sign far more than that, so they have more spots in the event every year. 33 programs do not recruit it at all.
Where the jumps talent is
Ranked by share of the division’s top marks in jumps, per season.
Programs that invest most in jumps
- 1
GPAC · NE
28% of the roster in jumps vs 16% NAIA average · 5 signed in the last 2 classes
- 2
GPAC · NE
27% of the roster in jumps vs 16% NAIA average · 3 signed in the last 2 classes · event coach on staff
- 3
WHAC · IN
25% of the roster in jumps vs 16% NAIA average · 4 signed in the last 2 classes · event coach on staff
- 4
WHAC · MI
30% of the roster in jumps vs 16% NAIA average · 2 signed in the last 2 classes
- 5
KCAC · MO
30% of the roster in jumps vs 16% NAIA average · 3 signed in the last 2 classes · event coach on staff
- 6ClarkeSpecialty
Heart · IA
47% of the roster in jumps vs 16% NAIA average · 2 signed in the last 2 classes
- 7CorbanSpecialty
CCC · OR
27% of the roster in jumps vs 16% NAIA average · 4 signed in the last 2 classes · event coach on staff
- 8Tennessee WesleyanSpecialty
AAC · TN
29% of the roster in jumps vs 16% NAIA average · 2 signed in the last 2 classes
- 9RustSpecialty
HBCUAC · MS
57% of the roster in jumps vs 16% NAIA average · 0 signed in the last 2 classes
- 10
Frontier · ND
14% of the roster in jumps vs 16% NAIA average · 0 signed in the last 2 classes
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The full NAIA jumps list, ranked: roster share, signings and talent rank for every program that recruits the event. Enter your email to open it.
NAIA women's programs that do not recruit jumps
No athletes racing the event in the seasons we hold and no signings in it. Do not spend your first emails here.
- Bellevue University
- Bryan
- Cleary
- Embry-Riddle Arizona
- Evergreen St
- Fisk
- Freed Hardeman
- Governors State University
- Grand View
- Hannibal LaGrange
- Haskell Indian
- Lawrence Tech
- Life
- Madonna
- Mobile
- Montreat
- Northwest U
- Ohio Christian
- Oklahoma City
- Rochester University
- SCAD Atlanta
- Savannah Coll of Art Design
- Southwestern Christian
- Spartanburg Methodist
- St Francis IL
- Tabor
- Tennessee Southern
- Trinity Christian
- Trinity Western
- UNT-Dallas
- Union KY
- Waldorf
- West Virginia Tech
Questions athletes and parents ask
Which NAIA women's programs recruit the most jumps athletes?
Doane, Concordia NE, Indiana Tech, Siena Heights, Evangel carry and sign well above the NAIA average in jumps (16% of a typical NAIA roster). They have more roster spots in the event to fill every year.
Which NAIA programs do not recruit jumps?
33 NAIA women's programs show no jumps athletes racing and no signings in the event in the classes we hold, including Bellevue University, Bryan, Cleary, Embry-Riddle Arizona, Evergreen St, Fisk. A thin group there is not an opening.
Does a bigger share of the roster mean more scholarship money?
Colleges do not publish scholarships by event. Where a program spends its roster spots and its signings is the best public evidence of where the money goes, and a program that carries twice the division share in your event has roughly twice the seats to fill. Ask the coach about aid directly.
How is this calculated?
From each program's official outdoor results lists (who raced each event area, averaged over the seasons we hold), its signing classes (2025-26, 2026-27), its share of the division's top marks, and whether a paid coach is titled for the event. Each is compared with the NAIA average and blended; a small class is pulled toward the average so one big year cannot fake a specialty.
Other NAIA women's event areas
As of 2026-10-22. Program counts and shares only; no college athlete is named on this page. Built from official meet results and the signing classes we hold. All event areas