Real signee marks · 2025-26 signing class · Girls
What colleges recruit a 56 400m?
A girls 56 400m is at or ahead of the median signee at 123 of the 132 college programs where we hold a verified 400m median: 49 in D1, 31 in D2, 29 in D3 and 14 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 56 sits at each level
| Level | Top quarter | Median signee | Back quarter | A 56 is… | Marks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1 | 56.31 | 58.11 | 59.96 | In the top quarter of the class | 650 |
| D2 | 59.27 | 1:01.08 | 1:03.91 | In the top quarter of the class | 388 |
| D3 | 1:00.81 | 1:03.54 | 1:06.37 | In the top quarter of the class | 429 |
| NAIA | 1:01.19 | 1:03.57 | 1:06.70 | In the top quarter of the class | 174 |
- D1: 56 is inside the top quarter of the class. The top-quarter line was 56.31 and the median D1 signee ran 58.11, 2.1 seconds slower.
- At D2, 56 is a top-quarter mark: three of every four of the 388 signees ran slower than 59.27. The median was 1:01.08.
- 56 clears the D3 top-quarter line (1:00.81) and sits 7.5 seconds ahead of the median signee (1:03.54).
- NAIA: 56 is inside the top quarter of the class. The top-quarter line was 1:01.19 and the median NAIA signee ran 1:03.57, 7.6 seconds slower.
Programs whose typical 400m signee ran about 56
15 programs have a median girls 400m signee within 1 second of 56. The closest at each level:
- ClemsonD1ACC · SC5 signees56.04median
- Murray StateD1MVC · KY5 signees56.10median
- ArkansasD1SEC · AR6 signees56.11median
- Pittsburg StD2MIAA · KS6 signees56.64median
One step up
Programs whose typical 400m signee was a little faster than 56: the next rung.
How to use this
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Other girls 400m marks
400m standards by level
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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