Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

Eastern Oregon

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

Public institution

T&F operating budget
$273K men · $241K women

Program expense, not scholarship aid

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Men's standards

American signees only — marks verified from US high-school meet results.

200mSprints
23.026 signees
400mSprints
50.716 signees
100mSprints
11.234 signees
110m HurdlesHurdles
15.421 signee
300m HurdlesHurdles
40.151 signee
1600mDistance
4:27.331 signee
800mDistance
1:56.661 signee
High JumpJumps
1.63m1 signee
Long JumpJumps
6.32m1 signee
Pole VaultJumps
4.62m1 signee
Triple JumpJumps
12.44m1 signee

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.

Men's class · 8 signed

Signed out of: Ore.

100m1 signed
10.63
400m3 signed
47.9650.7050.72
800m1 signed
1:56.66
300m Hurdles1 signed
40.15
Pole Vault1 signed
4.62m
Long Jump1 signed
6.32m

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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