Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

Richmond

What it actually takes to run at Richmond

NCAA Division I · A10 · VA

Every mark below belongs to someone Richmond actually signed for 2025-26 — 12 athletes in the class. Not an estimate. The real bar.

Richmond is a 3,054-student private campus in Richmond, VA and competes in the A10. Billy Caldwell leads a staff of 10 covering 1 event group.

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 Richmond program at a glance

Division
NCAA Division I
Conference
A10
Campus
Richmond, VA
Enrollment
3,054 students

Private institution

T&F operating budget
$210K men · $1.4M women

Program expense, not scholarship aid

Distance only. Richmond sponsors men's cross country without a full outdoor track program. Sprint, jump, throw and multi-event athletes are not recruited here.

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Men's standards

Home-grown signees: marks pulled from verified American high-school meets.

3200mDistance
9:09.173 signees
1600mDistance
4:15.472 signees
800mDistance
1:56.851 signee

Women's standards

American signees only — marks verified from US high-school meet results.

3200mDistance
11:15.316 signees
1600mDistance
5:17.593 signees
800mDistance
2:23.992 signees

+4 more events with real signee standards — 200m, 400m, Long Jump, Triple Jump

Everything above is the free slice. Members get the rest of Richmond’s class — names, marks, budgets, and coach contacts.

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Who recruits for Richmond

Pulled directly from the program’s athletics staff directory. Event groups coached here: distance and cross country.

  • Billy CaldwellAssociate Head Coach
  • Lori TaylorDirector of Track/Head Women's Cross Country and Track & Field CoachDistance
  • Andre MooreAssistant Coach
  • Elly HeineAssistant Coach
  • Isabel Rose
  • Kieran Thayer
  • LaRee Sugg
  • Lauren Wicklund
  • McKenzie Yi
  • Steve TaylorHead Men's Cross Country Coach and Assistant Track & Field CoachDistance

Direct, verified contact info for the full Richmond staff lives in the member database.

Every mark Richmond signed — the whole 2025-26 class

12 athletes, and the high-school mark each one was signed on. Not a published standard, not an estimate, not a sample — every signing, every event. Names, hometowns and the coach who recruited each athlete are the member view.

Men's class · 4 signed

Signed out of: VA · NJ

1600m1 signed
4:17.66
3200m3 signed
8:55.769:09.179:09.86
Women's class · 8 signed

Signed out of: VA · PA · FL · NY

400m1 signed
55.73
3200m6 signed
10:33.9810:53.3111:04.0711:26.5511:39.6011:48.62
Triple Jump1 signed
11.51m

Members see who each of these 12 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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D1 standards for the events Richmond signs

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

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