Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

Iowa State

What it actually takes to run at Iowa State

NCAA Division I · Big 12 · IA

These aren’t published walk-on standards or estimates. They’re the real marks of the 18 athletes Iowa State actually signed in its 2025-26 recruiting class — including 5 international signees. The honest answer to “would they recruit me?”

Iowa State is a 25,332-student public campus in Ames, IA and competes in the Big 12. Jeremy Sudbury leads a staff of 8 covering 1 event group.

The median below is the middle signee’s PR and the range spans the whole class, fastest to slowest. 1500m/Mile and 3000m are shown converted to 1600m/3200m. All of it comes from verified meet results.

Iowa State program snapshot

Division
NCAA Division I
Conference
Big 12
Campus
Ames, IA
Enrollment
25,332 students

Public institution

T&F operating budget
$2.5M men · $2.5M women

Program expense, not scholarship aid

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Men's standards

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

200mSprints
21.802 signees
400mSprints
49.632 signees
1600mDistance
4:03.512 signees

+8 more events with real signee standards — 3200m, 800m, Long Jump, 100m, High Jump, Triple Jump, Discus, Shot Put

Members see every event Iowa State signed, the full recruiting class with names and marks, program budgets, and coach contacts.

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Women's standards

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

DiscusThrows
44.67m2 signees
100mSprints
12.251 signee
100m HurdlesHurdles
13.621 signee

+4 more events with real signee standards — 1600m, 3200m, Javelin, Shot Put

Members see every event Iowa State signed, the full recruiting class with names and marks, program budgets, and coach contacts.

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Who recruits for Iowa State

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

  • Jeremy SudburyDirector of Track & Field/Cross CountryDistance
  • Kurtis BrondykeAssociate Head Coach
  • Patrick PetersonAssociate Men's Head Coach
  • Alex Gochenour-BrondykeAssistant Coach
  • Gable SieperdaAssociate
  • Katie OsikaAssistant Coach
  • Laura HarmonHead Women's Cross Country/Assistant Track CoachDistance
  • Noah CastleAssistant Coach

Every Iowa State coach’s verified email and phone are in the member database.

Every verified mark in Iowa State'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 · 11 signed · 9 American shown

Signed out of: TX · VA · AR · LA · IA · CO · +2 more

200m1 signed
22.09
400m1 signed
48.26
800m1 signed
1:52.19
1600m1 signed
4:02.62
3200m1 signed
8:43.54
High Jump1 signed
2.13m
Long Jump2 signed
7.50m7.09m
Discus1 signed
57.51m

+ 2 international signees 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.

Women's class · 5 signed · 4 American shown

Signed out of: IL · IA

3200m1 signed
10:29.09
100m Hurdles1 signed
13.62
Discus2 signed
48.74m40.60m

+ 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 — Iowa State 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.

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D1 standards for the events Iowa State signs

What the whole division signed in each event, not just this program.

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