Real signee marks · 2025-26 signing class · Girls

What colleges recruit a 26.8 200m?

A girls 26.8 200m is at or ahead of the median signee at 88 of the 203 college programs where we hold a verified 200m median: 8 in D1, 18 in D2, 53 in D3 and 9 in NAIA.

n = 1,989 girls 200m 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 26.8 sits at each level

LevelMedian signeeA 26.8 is…
D125.27Behind the back quarter
D226.54Behind the median, ahead of the back quarter
D327.80In the top quarter of the class
NAIA26.96Ahead of the median signee
  • D1: 26.8 is 0.68 seconds behind the back-quarter line (26.12). Three of every four of the 750 signees ran faster; the median was 25.27.
  • 26.8 is inside what D2 signed: behind the median (26.54) by 0.27 seconds, ahead of the back-quarter line (27.64) by 0.84 seconds.
  • At D3, 26.8 is a top-quarter mark: three of every four of the 562 signees ran slower than 26.81. The median was 27.80.
  • NAIA: 26.8 is 0.16 seconds ahead of the median signee (26.96) and 0.59 seconds short of the top quarter (26.21).

Programs whose typical 200m signee ran about 26.8

55 programs have a median girls 200m signee within 0.4 seconds of 26.8. The closest at each level:

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Programs whose typical 200m signee was a little faster than 26.8: the next rung.

How to use this

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Other girls 200m marks

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200m 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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