Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle
What it actually takes to run at Texas A&M-Commerce
NCAA Division I · Southland · TX
Texas A&M-Commerce signed 19 athletes for 2025-26 — including 7 international signees. What follows are their real high-school marks, not a program’s published walk-on line — the honest answer to “would they recruit me?”
Texas A&M-Commerce is a 8,318-student public campus in Commerce, TX and competes in the Southland. Rock Light leads a staff of 4.
“Median” is the middle signee’s PR; “range” runs from the fastest to the slowest mark in the class. 1500m/Mile and 3000m are converted to 1600m/3200m for comparison. Pulled from verified meet results.
Texas A&M-Commerce, by the numbers
- Division
- NCAA Division I
- Conference
- Southland
- Campus
- Commerce, TX
- Enrollment
- 8,318 students
- T&F operating budget
- $1.0M men · $1.1M women
Public institution
Program expense, not scholarship aid
Men's standards
US-based signees, marks verified against American high-school meet results.
Women's standards
US-based signees, marks verified against American high-school meet results.
Who recruits for Texas A&M-Commerce
As listed on the program’s official coaching staff page.
- Rock LightHead Coach
- Armani SmithAssistant Coach
- Mariana ShostakGraduate Assistant
- Natnael AmareAssistant Coach
The full Texas A&M-Commerce coaching staff’s contact info is in the member database.
Every verified mark in Texas A&M-Commerce's 2025-26 class
15 of the 19 athletes signed have a verified high-school mark, shown here with the mark each was signed on. The other 4 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: TX
+ 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.
Signed out of: Texas
+ 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 15 athletes is, where they came from, and the coach who recruited their event — see the named class
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This class’s marks, not a permanent standard: the range shifts every cycle as rosters and needs change. Progression, event fit, academics and open spots all factor into a real recruiting decision — fitting the range is a conversation-starter, not an offer.
Texas permits high school NIL for high school athletes. See the Texas NIL rules →
More Southland recruiting standards
Real signee marks for the programs Texas A&M-Commerce recruits against.
D1 standards for the events Texas A&M-Commerce signs
What the whole division signed in each event, not just this program.
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