Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle
What it actually takes to run at Alabama
NCAA Division I · SEC · AL
These aren’t published walk-on standards or estimates. They’re the real marks of the 17 athletes Alabama actually signed in its 2025-26 recruiting class — including 5 international signees. The honest answer to “would they recruit me?”
Alabama is a 33,435-student public campus in Tuscaloosa, AL and competes in the SEC. Dan Waters leads a staff of 8 covering 5 event groups.
The median below is the middle signee’s PR and the range spans the whole class, fastest to slowest. 1500m/Mile and 3000m are shown converted to 1600m/3200m. All of it comes from verified meet results.
Alabama program snapshot
- Division
- NCAA Division I
- Conference
- SEC
- Campus
- Tuscaloosa, AL
- Enrollment
- 33,435 students
- T&F operating budget
- $3.4M men · $3.4M women
Public institution
Program expense, not scholarship aid
Men's standards
US high-school signees — verified marks from American HS meets.
Women's standards
US high-school signees — verified marks from American HS meets.
Who recruits for Alabama
The staff listed on the program’s own athletics site. Event groups coached here: sprints and hurdles, distance and cross country, jumps and vault, throws, combined events.
- Dan WatersHead Coach
- Angie PughAdministrative Assistant
- Blaine WileyAssistant Coach (Sprints/Hurdles)Sprints & Hurdles
- David PickettAssistant Coach (Sprints/Hurdles)Sprints & Hurdles
- Derek YushAssistant Coach (Throws)Throws
- Miguel PateAssistant Coach (Jumps)Jumps
- Nick StenufAssistant Coach (Distance/Cross Country)Distance
- Tim DuckworthAssistant Coach (Pole Vault/Multi Events)Multis
The full Alabama coaching staff’s contact info is in the member database.
Every verified mark in Alabama's 2025-26 class
14 of the 17 athletes signed have a verified high-school mark, shown here with the mark each was signed on. The other 3 have no verified mark on record, so they are left out rather than guessed. Not a published standard, not an estimate. Names, hometowns and the coach who recruited each athlete are the member view.
Signed out of: AL · GA
+ 1 international signee in this class — their marks are in the International view of the tables above, kept separate so the American numbers above stay readable as US high-school marks.
Signed out of: GA · TX · N.Y. · MO · AL
+ 2 international signees in this class — their marks are in the International view of the tables above, kept separate so the American numbers above stay readable as US high-school marks.
Members see who each of these 14 athletes is, where they came from, and the coach who recruited their event — see the named class
Where do YOUR marks fit?
BeastMatch scores your PRs against the actual signing history of every college program — Alabama and 980+ more — in seconds. Free, no account needed.
Standards reflect the program’s most recent signing class and shift every cycle. Recruiting decisions also weigh progression, event needs, academics and roster spots — a mark inside the range is a conversation, not a guarantee.
Alabama restricts high school NIL for high school athletes. See the Alabama NIL rules →
More SEC recruiting standards
Real signee marks for the programs Alabama recruits against.
- Arkansas recruiting standards
- Auburn recruiting standards
- Florida recruiting standards
- Georgia recruiting standards
- Kentucky recruiting standards
- LSU recruiting standards
- Mississippi State recruiting standards
- Missouri recruiting standards
- Oklahoma recruiting standards
- Ole Miss recruiting standards
- South Carolina recruiting standards
- Tennessee recruiting standards
D1 standards for the events Alabama signs
What the whole division signed in each event, not just this program.
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