Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

Longwood

What it actually takes to run at Longwood

NCAA Division I · Big South · VA

These aren’t published walk-on standards or estimates. They’re the real marks of the 20 athletes Longwood actually signed in its 2025-26 recruiting class. The honest answer to “would they recruit me?”

Longwood is a 3,223-student public campus in Farmville, VA and competes in the Big South. Brooke Craig leads a staff of 3 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.

Longwood, by the numbers

Division
NCAA Division I
Conference
Big South
Campus
Farmville, VA
Enrollment
3,223 students

Public institution

T&F operating budget
$384K men · $447K women

Program expense, not scholarship aid

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Men's standards

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

800mDistance
2:01.046 signees
1600mDistance
4:35.114 signees
300m HurdlesHurdles
40.933 signees
3200mDistance
9:44.093 signees
100mSprints
13.212 signees
400mSprints
52.452 signees
110m HurdlesHurdles
14.492 signees
200mSprints
22.031 signee

Women's standards

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

100mSprints
12.974 signees
200mSprints
27.234 signees
400mSprints
59.962 signees
1600mDistance
5:30.382 signees
3200mDistance
11:47.732 signees
800mDistance
2:25.912 signees
High JumpJumps
1.42m2 signees
Long JumpJumps
4.65m1 signee
Triple JumpJumps
9.32m1 signee

Who recruits for Longwood

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

  • Brooke CraigDirector of Cross Country and Track & FieldDistance
  • Michael CraigAssistant Men's and Women's Cross Country CoachDistance
  • Torres, JacobAssistant Coach

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

Every verified mark in Longwood's 2025-26 class

18 of the 20 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

Signed out of: Va. · VA · NJ

100m1 signed
15.47
200m1 signed
22.03
800m4 signed
1:56.681:57.102:00.022:02.07
1600m1 signed
4:23.07
3200m2 signed
9:36.949:44.09
110m Hurdles2 signed
14.3414.64
Women's class · 7 signed

Signed out of: Va. · VA

100m4 signed
12.3612.5013.4413.44
800m1 signed
2:17.04
1600m1 signed
5:14.85
3200m1 signed
12:14.26

Members see who each of these 18 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 — Longwood 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 Longwood signs

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

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