Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

What it actually takes to run at Army
NCAA Division I · Patriot · NY
These aren’t published walk-on standards or estimates. They’re the real marks of the 50 athletes Army actually signed in its 2025-26 recruiting class. The honest answer to “would they recruit me?”
Army is a 4,508-student public campus in West Point, NY and competes in the Patriot. Mike Smith leads a staff of 7 covering 4 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.
Army, by the numbers
- Division
- NCAA Division I
- Conference
- Patriot
- Campus
- West Point, NY
- Enrollment
- 4,508 students
Public institution
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 Army
The staff listed on the program’s own athletics site. Event groups coached here: distance and cross country, jumps and vault, throws, combined events.
- Mike SmithDirector of Track and Field/Cross CountryDistance
- Akil GipsonAssistant Track and Field Coach (Sprints/Hurdles, Jumps, Combined Events, Pole Vault)Multis
- Brian WoodburyAssistant Track Coach (Throws)Throws
- Elise MooreAssistant Track and Field Coach
- Jonathan GraupmannAssistant Track and Field Coach (Sprints/Hurdles, Jumps, Combines Events, Pole Vault)Jumps
- Jordan SmithAssistant Track and Field Coach (Jumps, Combined Events)Multis
- Touhey, JustinDirector of Track & Field Operations
Every Army coach’s verified email and phone are in the member database.
Every verified mark in Army's 2025-26 class
45 of the 50 athletes signed have a verified high-school mark, shown here with the mark each was signed on. The other 5 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: TN · NY · MT · PA · OK · CA · +6 more
Signed out of: NC · MO · UT · ID · CA · NJ · +8 more
Members see who each of these 45 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 — Army 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.
New York permits high school NIL for high school athletes. See the New York NIL rules →
More Patriot recruiting standards
Real signee marks for the programs Army recruits against.
D1 standards for the events Army signs
What the whole division signed in each event, not just this program.
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