Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

What it actually takes to run at Eastern Oregon
NAIA · CCC · OR
No published standards, no estimates — this is what Eastern Oregon actually signed: 17 athletes in the 2025-26 class. What it takes, straight from the results.
Eastern Oregon is a 2,674-student public campus in La Grande, OR and competes in the CCC. Welch, Ben leads a staff of 8 covering 5 event groups.
Median: the middle signee’s personal best. Range: the full spread of the class, fastest to slowest. 1500m/Mile and 3000m marks read as their 1600m/3200m equivalents. Sourced from verified meets, not self-reported times.
The Eastern Oregon program at a glance
- Division
- NAIA
- Conference
- CCC
- Campus
- La Grande, OR
- Enrollment
- 2,674 students
- T&F operating budget
- $273K men · $241K women
Public institution
Program expense, not scholarship aid
Men's standards
American signees only — marks verified from US high-school meet results.
Who recruits for Eastern Oregon
Sourced from the program’s own athletics department directory. Event groups coached here: sprints and hurdles, distance and cross country, jumps and vault, throws, combined events.
- Welch, BenHead Cross Country/Track and Field CoachDistance
- Christine EcksteinAssistant Cross Country/Track & Field Coach - DistanceDistance
- Connor BrackenAssistant Track & Field Coach - Sprints, Hurdles, Multi-EventsMultis
- Heitstuman, BobAssistant Track & Field Coach - Pole VaultJumps
- Jeff HoskissonAssistant Coach
- Joe BrogdonVolunteer Assistant Track & Field Coach - JavelinThrows
- Maggie LedbetterAssistant Track & Field Coach - ThrowsThrows
- Ryan RobinsonAssistant Track & Field Coach - Hurdles, Strength and ConditioningSprints & Hurdles
Direct, verified contact info for the full Eastern Oregon staff lives in the member database.
Every verified mark in Eastern Oregon's 2025-26 class
8 of the 17 athletes signed have a verified high-school mark, shown here with the mark each was signed on. The other 9 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: Ore.
Members see who each of these 8 athletes is, where they came from, and the coach who recruited their event — see the named class
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More CCC recruiting standards
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- Oregon Tech recruiting standards
- Southern Oregon recruiting standards
- Trinity Western recruiting standards
- Warner Pacific recruiting standards
NAIA standards for the events Eastern Oregon signs
What the whole division signed in each event, not just this program.
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