Real Recruiting Standards · 2025-26 signing class
NCAA Division III Shot Put Recruiting Standards (2026-27)
The honest answer to "am I a D3 Shot Put 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.
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
291 signees · 141 programsP25 — top quarter
15.05m
The fast end of the D3 class.
P50 — median signee
13.84m
The middle D3 signee.
P75 — back quarter
12.24m
Still signed at this level.
13.84m is the median D3 Shot Put signee — not a published standard, the middle mark of the 291 boys signed by D3 programs in this event. 15.05m marks the top quarter; 12.24m marks the weakest quarter that still signed.
D3 programs signing the most Shot Put
- Ohio Northern7 signees16.41mmedian
- Mount Union6 signees14.26mmedian
- Susquehanna6 signees13.23mmedian
- Wartburg6 signees13.14mmedian
- George Fox6 signees12.94mmedian
- Whitworth5 signees14.68mmedian
- Wis Stevens Point5 signees14.41mmedian
- Springfield5 signees14.33mmedian
- Pacific OR5 signees14.25mmedian
- Plymouth State4 signees15.07mmedian
Girls · Shot Put
142 signees · 96 programsNot enough verified data to publish a girls Shot Put 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 142 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 D3 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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