Real signee marks · 2025-26 signing class · Boys

What colleges recruit a 2:06 800m?

A boys 2:06 800m is at or ahead of the median signee at 52 of the 204 college programs where we hold a verified 800m median: 1 in D1, 8 in D2, 31 in D3 and 12 in NAIA.

n = 1,961 boys 800m marks, 2025-26 signing class, trackbeast.com. Each is the high-school mark of an athlete a college program actually signed. A program's median is shown only when it signed four or more athletes in the event.

Where a 2:06 sits at each level

LevelMedian signeeA 2:06 is…
D11:56.14Behind the back quarter
D22:00.95Behind the median, ahead of the back quarter
D32:03.98Behind the median, ahead of the back quarter
NAIA2:05.28Behind the median, ahead of the back quarter
  • 2:06 trails the D1 back-quarter line (1:59.55) by 6.5 seconds and the median signee (1:56.14) by 9.9 seconds.
  • At D2, 2:06 sits in the slower half of the class but ahead of the back quarter (2:06.37). The median signee ran 2:00.95, 5.0 seconds faster.
  • D3: 2:06 is 2.0 seconds behind the median signee (2:03.98) and 4.9 seconds ahead of the back-quarter line (2:10.95). Athletes at this mark did sign.
  • 2:06 is inside what NAIA signed: behind the median (2:05.28) by 0.72 seconds, ahead of the back-quarter line (2:11.54) by 5.5 seconds.

Programs whose typical 800m signee ran about 2:06

34 programs have a median boys 800m signee within 2 seconds of 2:06. The closest at each level:

One step up

Programs whose typical 800m signee was a little faster than 2:06: the next rung.

How to use this

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Other boys 800m marks

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800m standards by level

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Not official cutoffs and not a promise of a roster spot or a scholarship. This is what each program's 2025-26 signing class ran in high school, from public meet results and official rosters. It moves every cycle and updates when the data does.

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