Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

What it actually takes to run at Eastern New Mexico
NCAA Division II · LSC · NM
These aren’t published walk-on standards or estimates. They’re the real marks of the 23 athletes Eastern New Mexico actually signed in its 2025-26 recruiting class — including 2 international signees. The honest answer to “would they recruit me?”
Eastern New Mexico is a 3,357-student public campus in Portales, NM and competes in the LSC. Harden, Joshua leads a staff of 1 covering 1 event group.
“Median” is the middle signee’s PR; “range” runs from the fastest to the slowest mark in the class. 1500m/Mile and 3000m are converted to 1600m/3200m for comparison. Pulled from verified meet results.
Eastern New Mexico, by the numbers
- Division
- NCAA Division II
- Conference
- LSC
- Campus
- Portales, NM
- Enrollment
- 3,357 students
- T&F operating budget
- $196K men · $179K women
Public institution
Program expense, not scholarship aid
Men's standards
US high-school signees — verified marks from American HS meets.
Women's standards
US high-school signees — verified marks from American HS meets.
Who recruits for Eastern New Mexico
The staff listed on the program’s own athletics site. Event groups coached here: distance and cross country.
- Harden, JoshuaHead Cross Country/Track & Field CoachDistance
The full Eastern New Mexico coaching staff’s contact info is in the member database.
Every verified mark in Eastern New Mexico's 2025-26 class
18 of the 23 athletes signed have a verified high-school mark, shown here with the mark each was signed on. The other 5 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.M.
Signed out of: N.M. · Texas · Ariz.
Members see who each of these 18 athletes is, where they came from, and the coach who recruited their event — see the named class
Where do YOUR marks fit?
BeastMatch scores your PRs against the actual signing history of every college program — Eastern New Mexico and 980+ more — in seconds. Free, no account needed.
Standards reflect the program’s most recent signing class and shift every cycle. Recruiting decisions also weigh progression, event needs, academics and roster spots — a mark inside the range is a conversation, not a guarantee.
New Mexico permits high school NIL for high school athletes. See the New Mexico NIL rules →
More LSC recruiting standards
Real signee marks for the programs Eastern New Mexico recruits against.
- Angelo State recruiting standards
- Cameron recruiting standards
- Dallas Baptist recruiting standards
- Lubbock Christian recruiting standards
- Midwestern St recruiting standards
- Oklahoma Christian recruiting standards
- TAMU Kingsville recruiting standards
- Texas Tyler recruiting standards
- West Texas AM recruiting standards
- Western New Mexico recruiting standards
D2 standards for the events Eastern New Mexico signs
What the whole division signed in each event, not just this program.
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