Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

What it actually takes to run at Minnesota
NCAA Division I · Big Ten · MN
Every mark below belongs to someone Minnesota actually signed for 2025-26 — including 5 international signees — 20 athletes in the class. Not an estimate. The real bar.
Minnesota is a 39,556-student public campus in Minneapolis, MN and competes in the Big Ten. Ibrahim Kabia leads a staff of 10 covering 4 event groups.
Median = the middle signee’s PR. Range = fastest to slowest mark they signed. 1500m/Mile and 3000m marks are shown as 1600m/3200m equivalents. Aggregated from verified meet results.
Inside the Minnesota program
- Division
- NCAA Division I
- Conference
- Big Ten
- Campus
- Minneapolis, MN
- Enrollment
- 39,556 students
- T&F operating budget
- $1.9M men · $2.6M women
Public institution
Program expense, not scholarship aid
Men's standards
Home-grown signees: marks pulled from verified American high-school meets.
Women's standards
American signees only — marks verified from US high-school meet results.
+6 more events with real signee standards — 200m, 400m, Long Jump, 800m, High Jump, Triple Jump
Everything above is the free slice. Members get the rest of Minnesota’s class — names, marks, budgets, and coach contacts.
Unlock the full standards →Who recruits for Minnesota
Sourced from the program’s own athletics department directory. Event groups coached here: sprints and hurdles, distance and cross country, jumps and vault, throws.
- Ibrahim KabiaAssociate Head Coach - Men's Sprints, Hurdles and Horizontal JumpsJumps
- Matt BingleDirector of Track & Field and Cross Country - Women's Sprints and HurdlesSprints & Hurdles
- Peter MillerAssociate Head Coach - ThrowsThrows
- Sarah HopkinsCross Country Head Coach/Track & Field Assistant CoachDistance
- Brad WickAssistant Cross Country/Track & Field CoachDistance
- Malory HenzeDirector of Operations
- Michael DunaganVolunteer Assistant Coach - DistanceDistance
- Samantha ZilverbergVolunteer Assistant Coach - Pole VaultJumps
- Trei ThorogoodAssistant Coach - Intern
- Vincent JohnsonAssistant Coach - Horizontal & Vertical JumpsJumps
Verified contact details for every Minnesota coach are in the member database.
Every verified mark in Minnesota's 2025-26 class
19 of the 20 athletes signed have a verified high-school mark, shown here with the mark each was signed on. The other one has no verified mark on record, so that athlete is 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: MN
+ 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.
Signed out of: MN · IL
+ 3 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.
Members see who each of these 19 athletes is, where they came from, and the coach who recruited their event — see the named class
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These numbers move every recruiting cycle — they’re last class’s signing marks, not a fixed bar. Programs also weigh progression, event needs, academics and open roster spots, so a mark in range starts a conversation; it doesn’t guarantee one.
Minnesota permits high school NIL for high school athletes. See the Minnesota NIL rules →
More Big Ten recruiting standards
Real signee marks for the programs Minnesota recruits against.
- Illinois recruiting standards
- Indiana recruiting standards
- Iowa recruiting standards
- Maryland recruiting standards
- Michigan recruiting standards
- Michigan State recruiting standards
- Nebraska recruiting standards
- Northwestern recruiting standards
- Ohio State recruiting standards
- Oregon recruiting standards
- Penn State recruiting standards
- Purdue recruiting standards
D1 standards for the events Minnesota signs
What the whole division signed in each event, not just this program.
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