Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle
What it actually takes to run at East Carolina
NCAA Division I · AAC · NC
Every mark below belongs to someone East Carolina actually signed for 2025-26 — 13 athletes in the class. Not an estimate. The real bar.
East Carolina is a 21,328-student public campus in Greenville, NC and competes in the AAC. Virgil Givens leads a staff of 6 covering 4 event groups.
Median = the middle signee’s PR. Range = fastest to slowest mark they signed. 1500m/Mile and 3000m marks are shown as 1600m/3200m equivalents. Aggregated from verified meet results.
Inside the East Carolina program
- Division
- NCAA Division I
- Conference
- AAC
- Campus
- Greenville, NC
- Enrollment
- 21,328 students
- T&F operating budget
- $865K men · $1.2M women
Public institution
Program expense, not scholarship aid
Women's standards
American signees only — marks verified from US high-school meet results.
Who recruits for East Carolina
Pulled directly from the program’s athletics staff directory. Event groups coached here: sprints and hurdles, distance and cross country, jumps and vault, throws.
- Virgil GivensDirector of Track & Field/Cross CountryDistance
- Alex SawyerAssistant Coach - DistanceDistance
- Chastity PickettAssistant Coach - SprintsSprints & Hurdles
- Damar ForbesAssistant Coach - JumpsJumps
- Emma SheppardAssistant Coach/Director of Operations
- Johnnie JacksonAssistant Coach - ThrowsThrows
Verified contact details for every East Carolina coach are in the member database.
Every verified mark in East Carolina's 2025-26 class
2 of the 13 athletes signed have a verified high-school mark, shown here with the mark each was signed on. The other 11 have no verified mark on record, so they are left out rather than guessed. Not a published standard, not an estimate. Names, hometowns and the coach who recruited each athlete are the member view.
Signed out of: Texas · N.C.
Members see who each of these 2 athletes is, where they came from, and the coach who recruited their event — see the named class
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These numbers move every recruiting cycle — they’re last class’s signing marks, not a fixed bar. Programs also weigh progression, event needs, academics and open roster spots, so a mark in range starts a conversation; it doesn’t guarantee one.
North Carolina permits high school NIL for high school athletes. See the North Carolina NIL rules →
More AAC recruiting standards
Real signee marks for the programs East Carolina recruits against.
- Florida Atlantic recruiting standards
- Memphis recruiting standards
- North Texas recruiting standards
- Rice recruiting standards
- South Florida recruiting standards
- Temple recruiting standards
- Tulane recruiting standards
- Tulsa recruiting standards
- UAB recruiting standards
- UNC Charlotte recruiting standards
- UTSA recruiting standards
- Wichita State recruiting standards
D1 standards for the events East Carolina signs
What the whole division signed in each event, not just this program.
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