Real Recruiting Standards · 2025-26 signing class
NAIA Shot Put Recruiting Standards (2026-27)
The honest answer to "am I a NAIA Shot Put 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.
The middle number is the median signee’s PR; P25 is the fast end of the class and P75 the slow end that still signed. 1500m/Mile and 3000m are shown converted to 1600m/3200m. Sourced from verified meet results, American pool only.
Boys · Shot Put
115 signees · 70 programsP25 — top quarter
15.33m
The fast end of the NAIA class.
P50 — median signee
14.10m
The middle NAIA signee.
P75 — back quarter
12.24m
Still signed at this level.
14.10m is the median NAIA Shot Put signee — not a published standard, the middle mark of the 115 boys signed by NAIA programs in this event. 15.33m marks the top quarter; 12.24m marks the weakest quarter that still signed.
NAIA programs signing the most Shot Put
- Mount Mercy7 signees13.60mmedian
- Indiana Tech4 signees15.82mmedian
- Union KY4 signees13.84mmedian
- Reinhardt3 signees—median
- Sterling3 signees—median
- St Ambrose3 signees—median
- Okla Panhandle3 signees—median
- Waldorf3 signees—median
- Oregon Tech3 signees—median
- Rocky Mountain2 signees—median
A dash means that program signed too few athletes in this event for a median to mean anything. The signee count is still exact.
Girls · Shot Put
72 signees · 49 programsNot enough verified data to publish a girls Shot Put 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 72 Shot Put 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
Shot Put standards at the other levels
Treat this as a snapshot of one signing class across one division. The spread inside a division is enormous, the numbers move every cycle, and coaches weigh progression, event needs, academics and open spots alongside the mark itself.
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