Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

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
- T&F operating budget
- $305K men · $380K women
Private institution
Program expense, not scholarship aid
Men's standards
US high-school signees — verified marks from American HS meets.
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.
Signed out of: Okla. · Tex. · Kan. · Ga. · Colo.
+ 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?
BeastMatch scores your PRs against the actual signing history of every college program — Friends and 980+ more — in seconds. Free, no account needed.
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.
Kansas permits high school NIL for high school athletes. See the Kansas NIL rules →
More KCAC recruiting standards
Real signee marks for the programs Friends recruits against.
NAIA standards for the events Friends signs
What the whole division signed in each event, not just this program.
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