Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

What it actually takes to run at Arkansas-Pine Bluff
NCAA Division I · SWAC · AR
No published standards, no estimates — this is what Arkansas-Pine Bluff actually signed: 5 athletes in the 2025-26 class — including 1 international signee. What it takes, straight from the results.
Arkansas-Pine Bluff is a 1,905-student public campus in Pine Bluff, AR and competes in the SWAC.
Median = the middle signee’s PR. Range = fastest to slowest mark they signed. 1500m/Mile and 3000m marks are shown as 1600m/3200m equivalents. Aggregated from verified meet results.
Inside the Arkansas-Pine Bluff program
- Division
- NCAA Division I
- Conference
- SWAC
- Campus
- Pine Bluff, AR
- Enrollment
- 1,905 students
- T&F operating budget
- $353K men · $460K women
Public institution
Program expense, not scholarship aid
Men's standards
American signees only — marks verified from US high-school meet results.
Women's standards
Home-grown signees: marks pulled from verified American high-school meets.
Who recruits for Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Pulled directly from the program’s athletics staff directory. Event groups coached here: distance and cross country.
- Arthur ThomasAssistant Coach
- Christopher McCoyHead Men's and Women's Cross Country/Track and Field CoachDistance
- Natoya Baird-DavidsonAssistant Coach
Verified contact details for every Arkansas-Pine Bluff coach are in the member database.
Every verified mark in Arkansas-Pine Bluff's 2025-26 class
4 of the 5 athletes signed have a verified high-school mark, shown here with the mark each was signed on. The other one has no verified mark on record, so that athlete is 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: GA
Signed out of: AR
+ 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.
Members see who each of these 4 athletes is, where they came from, and the coach who recruited their event — see the named class
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Treat this as a snapshot of one signing class, not a fixed cutoff — it changes every cycle. Coaches also weigh progression, event needs, academics and roster spots, so landing in range opens a conversation rather than settling one.
Arkansas permits high school NIL for high school athletes. See the Arkansas NIL rules →
More SWAC recruiting standards
Real signee marks for the programs Arkansas-Pine Bluff recruits against.
- Alabama A&M recruiting standards
- Alabama State recruiting standards
- Alcorn State recruiting standards
- Bethune-Cookman recruiting standards
- Florida A&M recruiting standards
- Grambling State recruiting standards
- Jackson State recruiting standards
- Mississippi Valley State recruiting standards
- Prairie View A&M recruiting standards
- Southern University recruiting standards
- Texas Southern recruiting standards
D1 standards for the events Arkansas-Pine Bluff signs
What the whole division signed in each event, not just this program.
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