Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

Friends

What it actually takes to run at Friends

NAIA · KCAC · KS

These aren’t published walk-on standards or estimates. They’re the real marks of the 18 athletes Friends actually signed in its 2025-26 recruiting class — including 1 international signee. The honest answer to “would they recruit me?”

Friends is a 1,724-student private campus in Wichita, KS and competes in the KCAC. Brun, Henry leads a staff of 8 covering 3 event groups.

“Median” is the middle signee’s PR; “range” runs from the fastest to the slowest mark in the class. 1500m/Mile and 3000m are converted to 1600m/3200m for comparison. Pulled from verified meet results.

Friends, by the numbers

Division
NAIA
Conference
KCAC
Campus
Wichita, KS
Enrollment
1,724 students

Private institution

T&F operating budget
$305K men · $380K women

Program expense, not scholarship aid

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Men's standards

US high-school signees — verified marks from American HS meets.

200mSprints
22.537 signees
100mSprints
11.136 signees
400mSprints
51.876 signees
800mDistance
2:04.166 signees
1600mDistance
4:45.693 signees
110m HurdlesHurdles
17.202 signees
Long JumpJumps
6.83m2 signees
300m HurdlesHurdles
40.661 signee
3200mDistance
10:47.011 signee
Triple JumpJumps
13.96m1 signee
DiscusThrows
45.31m1 signee
Shot PutThrows
18.43m1 signee

Who recruits for Friends

The staff listed on the program’s own athletics site. Event groups coached here: sprints and hurdles, distance and cross country, throws.

  • Brun, HenryHead Coach
  • Jex, TracyHead Cross Country Coach/Assistant Track & Field CoachDistance
  • Biedron, TrevorAssistant Coach
  • Cotton, CoshanAssistant Coach (Sprints)Sprints & Hurdles
  • Fulmer, JoshAssistant Coach
  • Hatley, KennethGraduate Assistant Coach (Throws)Throws
  • Laing, McKennaGraduate Assistant Intern Coach
  • Michael LockhartAssistant Coach (Sprints)Sprints & Hurdles

The full Friends coaching staff’s contact info is in the member database.

Every verified mark in Friends's 2025-26 class

16 of the 18 athletes signed have a verified high-school mark, shown here with the mark each was signed on. The other 2 have no verified mark on record, so they are left out rather than guessed. Not a published standard, not an estimate. Names, hometowns and the coach who recruited each athlete are the member view.

Men's class · 16 signed · 15 American shown

Signed out of: Okla. · Tex. · Kan. · Ga. · Colo.

100m2 signed
10.8211.75
200m1 signed
21.55
400m3 signed
48.9651.7752.88
800m4 signed
2:00.622:01.892:03.142:19.03
1600m1 signed
4:35.47
3200m1 signed
10:47.01
300m Hurdles1 signed
40.66
Long Jump1 signed
6.78m
Shot Put1 signed
18.43m

+ 1 international signee in this class — their marks are in the International view of the tables above, kept separate so the American numbers above stay readable as US high-school marks.

Members see who each of these 16 athletes is, where they came from, and the coach who recruited their event — see the named class

Where do YOUR marks fit?

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Standards reflect the program’s most recent signing class and shift every cycle. Recruiting decisions also weigh progression, event needs, academics and roster spots — a mark inside the range is a conversation, not a guarantee.

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