Real Recruiting Standards · 2025-26 signing class

NAIA 400m Recruiting Standards (2026-27)

The honest answer to "am I a NAIA 400m athlete?" is not a published standard — it is what NAIA programs actually signed. Every number below comes from the real high-school marks of the 2025-26 class.

P50 (median) = the middle signee’s PR. P25 = the top quarter of the class; P75 = the back quarter. 1500m/Mile and 3000m marks are shown as 1600m/3200m equivalents. Aggregated from verified meet results, American signees only.

Boys · 400m

319 signees · 103 programs

P25 — top quarter

51.00

The fast end of the NAIA class.

P50 — median signee

52.69

The middle NAIA signee.

P75 — back quarter

55.35

Still signed at this level.

52.69 in the 400m puts a boy right at the NAIA median signee. 51.00 is the top quarter of the class; 55.35 is the back quarter — still signed, still a real NAIA recruit. Built from all 319 boys signed by NAIA programs in this event.

NAIA programs signing the most 400m

Girls · 400m

61 signees · 38 programs

Not enough verified data to publish a girls 400m standard here.

Only 54% of the NAIA girls signing class has a verified high-school mark of any kind. A pool that thin is skewed toward the athletes who got results written up — the fast end — so any median we printed would read faster than what this level actually signs. We hold 61 400m marks here and are not publishing a standard off them.

Every competitor publishing a number here is estimating one. We would rather show nothing. Try the girls read at another level, or run a real mark through the fit check below — it scores against every program that has data, not a division average.

An NAIA median doesn't recruit anyone. Programs do.

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Other NAIA event standards

NAIA 100m standards →NAIA 200m standards →NAIA 800m standards →All NAIA events →

400m standards at the other levels

NCAA Division I 400m standards →NCAA Division II 400m standards →NCAA Division III 400m standards →

A division-wide number is a starting point, not a bar: the same division holds programs twenty seconds apart. These marks shift every cycle, and progression, event needs, academics and roster spots all move a real recruiting decision.

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