Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

What it actually takes to run at Northern Arizona
NCAA Division I · Big Sky · AZ
Every mark below belongs to someone Northern Arizona actually signed for 2025-26 — including 3 international signees — 19 athletes in the class. Not an estimate. The real bar.
Northern Arizona is a 23,128-student public campus in Flagstaff, AZ and competes in the Big Sky. Jarred Cornfield leads a staff of 7 covering 3 event groups.
Median: the middle signee’s personal best. Range: the full spread of the class, fastest to slowest. 1500m/Mile and 3000m marks read as their 1600m/3200m equivalents. Sourced from verified meets, not self-reported times.
The Northern Arizona program at a glance
- Division
- NCAA Division I
- Conference
- Big Sky
- Campus
- Flagstaff, AZ
- Enrollment
- 23,128 students
- T&F operating budget
- $1.5M men · $1.6M 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.
Who recruits for Northern Arizona
Pulled directly from the program’s athletics staff directory. Event groups coached here: distance and cross country, jumps and vault, throws.
- Jarred CornfieldDirector of Cross Country and Track & Field @Distance
- Aldo MarquezDirector of Operations & Distance Coach - Steeplechase DevelopmentDistance
- Alexis KebbeAssistant Coach - Distance (Head Women's Distance Recruiting)Distance
- Bradley FooteAssistant Coach - ThrowsThrows
- DJ LilleyAssistant Coach - Sprints, Hurdles & JumpsJumps
- Ernie ClarkAssistant Coach - Sprints, Hurdles & JumpsJumps
- Jake ReedAssistant Coach - Distance (Head Men's Distance Recruiting)Distance
Direct, verified contact info for the full Northern Arizona staff lives in the member database.
Every verified mark in Northern Arizona's 2025-26 class
10 of the 19 athletes signed have a verified high-school mark, shown here with the mark each was signed on. The other 9 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: Utah · Arizona
+ 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.
+ 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 10 athletes is, where they came from, and the coach who recruited their event — see the named class
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Treat this as a snapshot of one signing class, not a fixed cutoff — it changes every cycle. Coaches also weigh progression, event needs, academics and roster spots, so landing in range opens a conversation rather than settling one.
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More Big Sky recruiting standards
Real signee marks for the programs Northern Arizona recruits against.
- Eastern Washington recruiting standards
- Idaho recruiting standards
- Idaho State recruiting standards
- Montana recruiting standards
- Montana State recruiting standards
- Northern Colorado recruiting standards
- Portland State recruiting standards
- Sacramento State recruiting standards
- Southern Utah recruiting standards
- Weber State recruiting standards
D1 standards for the events Northern Arizona signs
What the whole division signed in each event, not just this program.
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