Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

What it actually takes to run at Puget Sound
NCAA Division III · NWC · WA
Every mark below belongs to someone Puget Sound actually signed for 2025-26 — 16 athletes in the class. Not an estimate. The real bar.
Puget Sound is a 1,594-student private campus in Tacoma, WA and competes in the NWC. Lisa Kushiyama leads a staff of 11 covering 5 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 Puget Sound program at a glance
- Division
- NCAA Division III
- Conference
- NWC
- Campus
- Tacoma, WA
- Enrollment
- 1,594 students
- T&F operating budget
- $45K men · $37K women
Private institution
Program expense, not scholarship aid
Men's standards
Home-grown signees: marks pulled from verified American high-school meets.
Women's standards
Home-grown signees: marks pulled from verified American high-school meets.
Who recruits for Puget Sound
Sourced from the program’s own athletics department directory. Event groups coached here: sprints and hurdles, distance and cross country, jumps and vault, throws, combined events.
- Lisa KushiyamaHead Coach; Sprints & Jumps CoachJumps
- Andrea DonovanAssistant Coach
- Andrew Shirley
- Carlson, JamieThrows/Pole Vault CoachThrows
- Donovan, Andrea BoitanoDistance CoachDistance
- Minamiji, AidanThrows CoachThrows
- Moon, RandyHeptathlon/Decathlon CoachMultis
- Morgan Greene
- Ring, SamDistance CoachDistance
- Shields, MarkSprints/Hurdles CoachSprints & Hurdles
- Tevon Stephens-BrownThrows CoachThrows
Direct, verified contact info for the full Puget Sound staff lives in the member database.
Every verified mark in Puget Sound's 2025-26 class
13 of the 16 athletes signed have a verified high-school mark, shown here with the mark each was signed on. The other 3 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: Idaho. · Ark. · Ore. · Wash. · HI. · Minn. · +1 more
Signed out of: Wash. · Colo. · Calif. · Minn.
Members see who each of these 13 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.
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More NWC recruiting standards
Real signee marks for the programs Puget Sound recruits against.
D3 standards for the events Puget Sound signs
What the whole division signed in each event, not just this program.
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