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What colleges recruit a 1:01 400m?

A girls 1:01 400m is at or ahead of the median signee at 63 of the 132 college programs where we hold a verified 400m median: 11 in D1, 17 in D2, 23 in D3 and 12 in NAIA.

n = 1,641 girls 400m 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 1:01 sits at each level

LevelMedian signeeA 1:01 is…
D158.11Behind the back quarter
D21:01.08Ahead of the median signee
D31:03.54Ahead of the median signee
NAIA1:03.57In the top quarter of the class
  • D1: 1:01 is 1.0 second behind the back-quarter line (59.96). Three of every four of the 650 signees ran faster; the median was 58.11.
  • 1:01 beats the median D2 signee (1:01.08) by 0.08 seconds. The next line up is the top quarter at 59.27.
  • At D3, 1:01 is in the faster half of the class. The median signee ran 1:03.54; the top quarter starts at 1:00.81, 0.19 seconds away.
  • 1:01 clears the NAIA top-quarter line (1:01.19) and sits 2.6 seconds ahead of the median signee (1:03.57).

Programs whose typical 400m signee ran about 1:01

32 programs have a median girls 400m signee within 1 second of 1:01. The closest at each level:

One step up

Programs whose typical 400m signee was a little faster than 1:01: the next rung.

How to use this

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Other girls 400m marks

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400m standards by level

NCAA Division I 400m standards →NCAA Division II 400m standards →NCAA Division III 400m standards →NAIA 400m standards →By conference →By state →

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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