Real Recruiting Standards · 2025-26 signing class
NAIA 800m Recruiting Standards (2026-27)
The honest answer to "am I a NAIA 800m 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 · 800m
253 signees · 94 programsP25 — top quarter
1:59.88
The fast end of the NAIA class.
P50 — median signee
2:03.67
The middle NAIA signee.
P75 — back quarter
2:10.33
Still signed at this level.
2:03.67 in the 800m puts a boy right at the NAIA median signee. 1:59.88 is the top quarter of the class; 2:10.33 is the back quarter — still signed, still a real NAIA recruit. Built from all 253 boys signed by NAIA programs in this event.
NAIA programs signing the most 800m
- Indiana Wesleyan10 signees1:58.57median
- Dordt9 signees2:08.71median
- Olivet Nazarene8 signees2:06.51median
- Northwestern IA7 signees1:59.71median
- Montana Tech6 signees2:00.86median
- Friends6 signees2:04.16median
- Indiana Tech6 signees2:05.64median
- Arizona Christian6 signees2:06.63median
- Bismarck State College5 signees1:57.11median
- Milligan5 signees2:01.03median
Girls · 800m
44 signees · 29 programsNot enough verified data to publish a girls 800m 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 44 800m 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.
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Other NAIA event standards
800m standards at the other levels
One division, one signing class, and a range that changes every year — that is what this page is. Program-by-program the bar swings hard in both directions, and progression, event needs, academics and roster spots decide as much as the mark does.
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