Real Recruiting Standards · 2025-26 signing class
NCAA Division III Pole Vault Recruiting Standards (2026-27)
The honest answer to "am I a D3 Pole Vault athlete?" is not a published standard — it is what D3 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 · Pole Vault
94 signees · 67 programsP25 — top quarter
4.27m
The fast end of the D3 class.
P50 — median signee
4.05m
The middle D3 signee.
P75 — back quarter
3.71m
Still signed at this level.
4.05m in the Pole Vault puts a boy right at the D3 median signee. 4.27m is the top quarter of the class; 3.71m is the back quarter — still signed, still a real D3 recruit. Built from all 94 boys signed by D3 programs in this event.
D3 programs signing the most Pole Vault
- Milwaukee Sch of Eng4 signees4.13mmedian
- Pacific Lutheran4 signees3.73mmedian
- Coast Guard4 signees3.70mmedian
- Bethel MN3 signees—median
- RIT3 signees—median
- Otterbein3 signees—median
- Wis Whitewater2 signees—median
- Hope2 signees—median
- Trine2 signees—median
- St Johns MN2 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 · Pole Vault
19 signees · 19 programsNot enough verified data to publish a girls Pole Vault standard here.
Only 54% of the D3 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 19 Pole Vault 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 D3 event standards
Pole Vault standards at the other levels
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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