Real Recruiting Standards · 2025-26
NCAA Division III track & field recruiting standards
These aren't published walk-on standards or estimates. They're the real high-school marks of the 6,045 athletes NCAA Division III programs actually signed in the 2025-26 class — including 49 international signees, aggregated separately. The honest answer to “am I a D3 athlete?”
Median = the middle signee's PR. Range = fastest to slowest mark signed at this level. 1500m/Mile and 3000m marks are shown as 1600m/3200m equivalents. Aggregated from verified meet results.
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Men's standards
US high-school signees — verified marks from American HS meets.
EventWhat their median signee ranFull class rangeDepth
1600mDistance
4:36.88median signee
4:08.29 – 5:43.07class range
4:36.88769 signees
200mSprints
23.32median signee
20.69 – 34.00class range
23.32701 signees
800mDistance
2:03.73median signee
1:52.13 – 2:47.50class range
2:03.73660 signees
100mSprints
11.40median signee
10.46 – 20.93class range
11.40609 signees
400mSprints
52.70median signee
47.65 – 1:16.78class range
52.70580 signees
3200mDistance
10:00.22median signee
8:55.48 – 12:28.07class range
10:00.22568 signees
Shot PutThrows
13.87mmedian signee
22.89m – 7.81mclass range
13.87m288 signees
DiscusThrows
41.50mmedian signee
68.00m – 25.07mclass range
41.50m269 signees
Long JumpJumps
6.26mmedian signee
7.28m – 4.47mclass range
6.26m204 signees
110m HurdlesHurdles
15.32median signee
13.98 – 20.92class range
15.32134 signees
Pole VaultJumps
3.96mmedian signee
5.03m – 2.74mclass range
3.96m128 signees
High JumpJumps
1.83mmedian signee
2.09m – 1.49mclass range
1.83m127 signees
Triple JumpJumps
12.92mmedian signee
14.49m – 10.09mclass range
12.92m121 signees
300m HurdlesHurdles
41.53median signee
38.39 – 50.73class range
41.5394 signees
JavelinThrows
45.39mmedian signee
62.10m – 26.09mclass range
45.39m66 signees
100m HurdlesHurdles
17.22median signee
17.22class range
17.221 signee
Women's standards
US high-school signees — verified marks from American HS meets.
EventWhat their median signee ranFull class rangeDepth
1600mDistance
5:36.11median signee
4:50.06 – 6:28.13class range
5:36.11603 signees
200mSprints
27.80median signee
24.64 – 38.55class range
27.80577 signees
800mDistance
2:31.36median signee
2:09.09 – 3:03.47class range
2:31.36541 signees
100mSprints
13.23median signee
11.90 – 23.15class range
13.23452 signees
3200mDistance
12:05.67median signee
10:25.48 – 14:29.35class range
12:05.67439 signees
400mSprints
1:03.48median signee
55.11 – 1:24.83class range
1:03.48433 signees
Shot PutThrows
10.10mmedian signee
13.58m – 5.69mclass range
10.10m227 signees
Long JumpJumps
4.99mmedian signee
5.85m – 3.01mclass range
4.99m208 signees
DiscusThrows
31.98mmedian signee
46.20m – 18.85mclass range
31.98m204 signees
High JumpJumps
1.55mmedian signee
1.77m – 1.17mclass range
1.55m138 signees
100m HurdlesHurdles
16.26median signee
14.62 – 24.08class range
16.26128 signees
Triple JumpJumps
10.46mmedian signee
12.08m – 6.81mclass range
10.46m122 signees
Pole VaultJumps
3.05mmedian signee
3.81m – 1.83mclass range
3.05m106 signees
300m HurdlesHurdles
48.10median signee
44.35 – 1:06.30class range
48.1069 signees
JavelinThrows
30.18mmedian signee
41.89m – 14.43mclass range
30.18m48 signees
Division medians don't recruit anyone. Programs do.
A D3 median hides a 20-second spread between the top and bottom of the division. BeastMatch scores your PRs against the actual signing history of every program — free, no account needed.
Every D3 program
260 with verified signing-class data- Adrian
- Albion
- Alfred
- Alfred State
- Allegheny
- Alma
- Alvernia
- Amherst
- Arcadia
- Augsburg
- Augustana IL
- Babson
- Baldwin Wallace
- Bates
- Belhaven
- Beloit
- Benedictine IL
- Berry
- Bethany WV
- Bethel MN
- Bluffton
- Bowdoin
- Brandeis
- Brevard
- Bridgewater
- Bridgewater St
- Brockport St
- Buena Vista
- Buffalo State
- Cal Lutheran
- Caltech
- Calvin
- Capital
- Carleton
- Carnegie Mellon
- Carroll WI
- Carthage
- Case Western
- Catholic
- Central College
- Centre
- Chapman
- Christopher Newport
- Claremont Mudd Scripps
- Coast Guard
- Colby
- Colorado College
- Concordia Moorhead
- Concordia WI
- Conn College
- Cornell College
- Cortland St
- Crown
- Delaware Valley
- Delhi
- Denison
- DePauw
- DeSales
- Dickinson College
- Drew
- Dubuque
- East Texas Baptist
- Eastern
- Eastern Conn St
- Eastern Mennonite
- Edgewood
- Elizabethtown
- Elmhurst
- Emmanuel MA
- Emory
- Endicott
- Farmingdale St
- FDU Florham
- Fitchburg St
- Franciscan-OH
- Franklin
- Franklin Marshall
- Fredonia St
- Geneseo St
- Geneva
- George Fox
- Gettysburg
- Gordon
- Greenville
- Grinnell
- Grove City
- Gustavus Adolphus
- Gwynedd Mercy
- Hamline
- Hanover
- Hardin Simmons
- Hartford
- Haverford
- Hendrix
- Hiram
- Hope
- Houghton
- Huntingdon
- Illinois College
- Illinois Tech
- Illinois Wesleyan
- Ithaca
- John Carroll
- Johns Hopkins
- Johnson Wales RI
- Kalamazoo
- Keene State
- Kenyon
- Kings
- La Verne
- LaGrange
- Lancaster Bible
- Lebanon Valley
- LeTourneau
- Linfield
- Loras
- Luther
- Lynchburg
- Macalester
- Manchester
- Martin Luther
- Mary Washington
- McDaniel
- McMurry
- Medgar Evers
- Meredith
- Messiah
- Methodist
- Middlebury
- Millikin
- Millsaps
- Milwaukee Sch of Eng
- Misericordia
- Miss Univ for Women
- MIT
- Monmouth IL
- Montclair State
- Moravian
- Mount Holyoke
- Mount St Joseph
- Mount Union
- Muhlenberg
- Muskingum
- Nazareth
- Nebraska Wesleyan
- New Jersey City
- North Carolina Wesleyan
- North Central IL
- North Park
- NYU
- Oberlin
- Occidental
- Oglethorpe
- Ohio Northern
- Ohio Wesleyan
- Olivet
- Oneonta
- Oswego State
- Otterbein
- Pacific Lutheran
- Pacific OR
- Penn State Behrend
- Pfeiffer
- Piedmont
- Plattsburgh St
- Plymouth State
- Pomona Pitzer
- Principia
- Puget Sound
- Ramapo
- Redlands
- Regent
- Rhodes
- RIC
- Ripon
- RIT
- Roanoke
- Rochester
- Rockford
- Roger Williams
- Rose Hulman
- Rowan
- RPI
- Rutgers Camden
- Rutgers Newark
- Salisbury
- Schreiner
- Scranton
- Shenandoah
- Simpson
- Smith
- Southern Maine
- Southern Virginia
- Southwestern TX
- Springfield
- St Benedict
- St John Fisher
- St Johns MN
- St Josephs ME
- St Lawrence
- St Marys Md
- St Marys MN
- St Norbert
- St Olaf
- St Scholastica
- ST Thomas TX
- St Vincent
- Stevens
- Stevenson
- Stockton
- Suffolk
- Susquehanna
- Swarthmore
- TCNJ
- Texas Lutheran
- Thomas College
- Transylvania
- Trine
- Trinity CT
- Trinity TX
- Tufts
- U of Chicago
- UC Santa Cruz
- UMass Boston
- UMass Dartmouth
- Union NY
- Ursinus
- Utica
- Vassar
- Wabash
- Wartburg
- Washington Jefferson
- Washington Lee
- Waynesburg
- Webster
- Wellesley
- Wentworth Institute of Tech
- Wesleyan
- Westfield State
- Westminster PA
- Wheaton IL
- Wheaton MA
- Whitworth
- Widener
- Willamette
- Williams
- Wilmington OH
- Wis Eau Claire
- Wis La Crosse
- Wis Oshkosh
- Wis Platteville
- Wis River Falls
- Wis Stevens Point
- Wis Stout
- Wis Whitewater
- Wisconsin Lutheran
- Wittenberg
- Wooster
- WPI
- York PA
D3 recruiting standards by event
What it actually takes in one event — median signee, top quarter, back quarter, and the programs signing the most of it.
- D3 100m standards
- D3 200m standards
- D3 400m standards
- D3 800m standards
- D3 1600m standards
- D3 3200m standards
- D3 100m/110m Hurdles standards
- D3 300m Hurdles standards
- D3 High Jump standards
- D3 Pole Vault standards
- D3 Long Jump standards
- D3 Triple Jump standards
- D3 Shot Put standards
- D3 Discus standards
- D3 Javelin standards
Other divisions
Standards reflect the marks of the most recent signing class and change every cycle. Recruiting decisions also weigh progression, event needs, academics, and roster spots — a mark inside the range is a conversation, not a guarantee.
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