Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle
What it actually takes to run at Bismarck State College
NAIA · Frontier · ND
Every mark below belongs to someone Bismarck State College actually signed for 2025-26 — including 2 international signees — 36 athletes in the class. Not an estimate. The real bar.
Bismarck State College is a 3,771-student campus in Bismarck, ND and competes in the Frontier. Julia Hammerschmidt leads a staff of 5 covering 3 event groups.
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 Bismarck State College program
- Division
- NAIA
- Conference
- Frontier
- Campus
- Bismarck, ND
- Enrollment
- 3,771 students
- T&F operating budget
- $182K men · $242K women
Program expense, not scholarship aid
Men's standards
Home-grown signees: marks pulled from verified American high-school meets.
+10 more events with real signee standards — 400m, 1600m, 3200m, Discus, Shot Put, 110m Hurdles, 300m Hurdles, Long Jump, Triple Jump, Javelin
Everything above is the free slice. Members get the rest of Bismarck State College’s class — names, marks, budgets, and coach contacts.
Unlock the full standards →Women's standards
Home-grown signees: marks pulled from verified American high-school meets.
+10 more events with real signee standards — 100m Hurdles, 300m Hurdles, 1600m, 3200m, 800m, Pole Vault, High Jump, Long Jump, Discus, Shot Put
Everything above is the free slice. Members get the rest of Bismarck State College’s class — names, marks, budgets, and coach contacts.
Unlock the full standards →Who recruits for Bismarck State College
Sourced from the program’s own athletics department directory. Event groups coached here: distance and cross country, jumps and vault, throws.
- Julia HammerschmidtUMary '19 | Chadron State '21 Head Track & Field Coach (3rd)
- Aanders WeltzBSC '23 Assistant Throws CoachThrows
- Dan McGurrenBSC '88 | Minot State '89 Assistant Cross Country CoachDistance
- Jim SkjodBSC '86 | VCSU '90 Assistant Cross Country CoachDistance
- William KaiglerSan Joaquin Delta '14 | UMary '16 Assistant Jumps Coach (3rd)Jumps
Verified contact details for every Bismarck State College coach are in the member database.
Every verified mark in Bismarck State College's 2025-26 class
32 of the 36 athletes signed have a verified high-school mark, shown here with the mark each was signed on. The other 4 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: N.D. · Wash. · S.D.
+ 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: Wyo. · N.D. · S.D.
Members see who each of these 32 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.
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More Frontier recruiting standards
Real signee marks for the programs Bismarck State College recruits against.
NAIA standards for the events Bismarck State College signs
What the whole division signed in each event, not just this program.
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