Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

What it actually takes to run at Charleston Southern
NCAA Division I · Big South · SC
These aren’t published walk-on standards or estimates. They’re the real marks of the 25 athletes Charleston Southern actually signed in its 2025-26 recruiting class — including 2 international signees. The honest answer to “would they recruit me?”
Charleston Southern is a 2,914-student private campus in Charleston, SC and competes in the Big South. Jim Stintzi leads a staff of 7 covering 1 event group.
“Median” is the middle signee’s PR; “range” runs from the fastest to the slowest mark in the class. 1500m/Mile and 3000m are converted to 1600m/3200m for comparison. Pulled from verified meet results.
Charleston Southern, by the numbers
- Division
- NCAA Division I
- Conference
- Big South
- Campus
- Charleston, SC
- Enrollment
- 2,914 students
- T&F operating budget
- $688K men · $798K women
Private institution
Program expense, not scholarship aid
Men's standards
US high-school signees — verified marks from American HS meets.
+7 more events with real signee standards — 100m, 200m, 400m, Shot Put, 110m Hurdles, Discus, Javelin
Members see every event Charleston Southern signed, the full recruiting class with names and marks, program budgets, and coach contacts.
Unlock the full standards →Women's standards
US high-school signees — verified marks from American HS meets.
+2 more events with real signee standards — Discus, Shot Put
Members see every event Charleston Southern signed, the full recruiting class with names and marks, program budgets, and coach contacts.
Unlock the full standards →Who recruits for Charleston Southern
The staff listed on the program’s own athletics site. Event groups coached here: distance and cross country.
- Jim StintziDirector of Track & Field and Cross CountryDistance
- Thompson, SoyiniHead Coach
- Brandon BlantonAssistant Track & Field Coach
- Grenisha ThomasGraduate Assistant Coach
- Karl ThiessenAssistant Track & Field/Cross Country CoachDistance
- Katherine ThompsonVolunteer Assistant Coach
- Ryann HelmersVolunteer Assistant Coach
Every Charleston Southern coach’s verified email and phone are in the member database.
Every verified mark in Charleston Southern's 2025-26 class
23 of the 25 athletes signed have a verified high-school mark, shown here with the mark each was signed on. The other 2 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: OH · NC · SC · WI · NV · MD · +3 more
Signed out of: S.C. · Ga.
+ 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 23 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 — Charleston Southern 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.
South Carolina restricts high school NIL for high school athletes. See the South Carolina NIL rules →
More Big South recruiting standards
Real signee marks for the programs Charleston Southern recruits against.
D1 standards for the events Charleston Southern signs
What the whole division signed in each event, not just this program.
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