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What colleges recruit a 2:28 800m?

A girls 2:28 800m is at or ahead of the median signee at 67 of the 165 college programs where we hold a verified 800m median: 5 in D1, 19 in D2, 32 in D3 and 11 in NAIA.

n = 1,821 girls 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 2:28 sits at each level

LevelMedian signeeA 2:28 is…
D12:18.36Behind the back quarter
D22:27.56Behind the median, ahead of the back quarter
D32:31.41Ahead of the median signee
NAIA2:31.48Ahead of the median signee
  • D1: 2:28 is 3.8 seconds behind the back-quarter line (2:24.21). Three of every four of the 668 signees ran faster; the median was 2:18.36.
  • At D2, 2:28 sits in the slower half of the class but ahead of the back quarter (2:34.54). The median signee ran 2:27.56, 0.44 seconds faster.
  • 2:28 beats the median D3 signee (2:31.41) by 3.4 seconds. The next line up is the top quarter at 2:25.37.
  • At NAIA, 2:28 is in the faster half of the class. The median signee ran 2:31.48; the top quarter starts at 2:25.68, 2.3 seconds away.

Programs whose typical 800m signee ran about 2:28

29 programs have a median girls 800m signee within 2 seconds of 2:28. The closest at each level:

One step up

Programs whose typical 800m signee was a little faster than 2:28: the next rung.

How to use this

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Other girls 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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