Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

Tulsa

What it actually takes to run at Tulsa

NCAA Division I · AAC · OK

These aren’t published walk-on standards or estimates. They’re the real marks of the 20 athletes Tulsa actually signed in its 2025-26 recruiting class — including 2 international signees. The honest answer to “would they recruit me?”

Tulsa is a 2,485-student private campus in Tulsa, OK and competes in the AAC. Steve Gulley leads a staff of 6 covering 2 event groups.

The median below is the middle signee’s PR and the range spans the whole class, fastest to slowest. 1500m/Mile and 3000m are shown converted to 1600m/3200m. All of it comes from verified meet results.

Tulsa program snapshot

Division
NCAA Division I
Conference
AAC
Campus
Tulsa, OK
Enrollment
2,485 students

Private institution

T&F operating budget
$1.4M men · $1.6M women

Program expense, not scholarship aid

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Men's standards

US high-school signees — verified marks from American HS meets.

1600mDistance
4:11.445 signees
800mDistance
1:55.575 signees
3200mDistance
9:10.313 signees
100mSprints
10.831 signee
200mSprints
21.921 signee
400mSprints
48.921 signee

Women's standards

US high-school signees — verified marks from American HS meets.

1600mDistance
5:09.564 signees
800mDistance
2:16.453 signees
100mSprints
12.142 signees
200mSprints
25.522 signees
3200mDistance
10:55.282 signees
400mSprints
59.171 signee
Long JumpJumps
5.69m1 signee

Who recruits for Tulsa

The staff listed on the program’s own athletics site. Event groups coached here: sprints and hurdles, distance and cross country.

  • Steve GulleyDirector of Cross Country and Track & Field/Women's Head CoachDistance
  • Taylor GulleyMen's Cross Country and Track & Field Head CoachDistance
  • Brandon RatliffAssistant Sprints CoachSprints & Hurdles
  • Loren IwanickiAssistant Coach
  • Mollie DaltonAssistant Coach
  • Wyatt LandisAssistant Coach

The full Tulsa coaching staff’s contact info is in the member database.

Every verified mark in Tulsa's 2025-26 class

17 of the 20 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.

Men's class · 9 signed

Signed out of: TX · KY · OK · PA · MO · KS

100m1 signed
10.83
800m4 signed
1:51.701:55.511:55.571:55.58
1600m3 signed
4:01.804:11.444:30.76
3200m1 signed
8:57.27
Women's class · 8 signed · 7 American shown

Signed out of: TX · OK · IL

100m1 signed
11.67
200m1 signed
25.70
400m1 signed
59.17
800m1 signed
2:13.94
1600m1 signed
5:12.35
3200m2 signed
10:50.8210:59.74

+ 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 17 athletes is, where they came from, and the coach who recruited their event — see the named class

Where do YOUR marks fit?

BeastMatch scores your PRs against the actual signing history of every college program — Tulsa and 980+ more — in seconds. Free, no account needed.

Standards reflect the program’s most recent signing class and shift every cycle. Recruiting decisions also weigh progression, event needs, academics and roster spots — a mark inside the range is a conversation, not a guarantee.

Oklahoma permits high school NIL for high school athletes. See the Oklahoma NIL rules →

D1 standards for the events Tulsa signs

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

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