Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle
What it actually takes to run at UT Rio Grande Valley
NCAA Division I · WAC · TX
These aren’t published walk-on standards or estimates. They’re the real marks of the 16 athletes UT Rio Grande Valley actually signed in its 2025-26 recruiting class — including 2 international signees. The honest answer to “would they recruit me?”
UT Rio Grande Valley is a 27,040-student public campus in Edinburg, TX and competes in the WAC. Shareese Hicks leads a staff of 6 covering 4 event groups.
“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.
UT Rio Grande Valley, by the numbers
- Division
- NCAA Division I
- Conference
- WAC
- Campus
- Edinburg, TX
- Enrollment
- 27,040 students
- T&F operating budget
- $644K men · $914K women
Public institution
Program expense, not scholarship aid
Men's standards
US high-school signees — verified marks from American HS meets.
+6 more events with real signee standards — Long Jump, 100m, 200m, 400m, 110m Hurdles, High Jump
Members see every event UT Rio Grande Valley signed, the full recruiting class with names and marks, program budgets, and coach contacts.
Unlock the full standards →Women's standards
US high-school signees — verified marks from American HS meets.
+6 more events with real signee standards — 100m Hurdles, 800m, Long Jump, Triple Jump, Discus, Shot Put
Members see every event UT Rio Grande Valley signed, the full recruiting class with names and marks, program budgets, and coach contacts.
Unlock the full standards →Who recruits for UT Rio Grande Valley
The staff listed on the program’s own athletics site. Event groups coached here: sprints and hurdles, distance and cross country, jumps and vault, throws.
- Shareese HicksHead Coach (Sprints/Hurdles) shareese_woodsSprints & Hurdles
- Antwon HicksAssistant Coach (Sprints/Hurdles/Jumps)Jumps
- Jakob DegensheinAssistant Coach (Throws)Throws
- Marco GuajardoAssistant Coach (Jumps/Combined)Jumps
- Ricardo MendozaAssistant Coach (Distance)Distance
- Seminski, AaronDirector of Track & Field Operations
Every UT Rio Grande Valley coach’s verified email and phone are in the member database.
Every mark UT Rio Grande Valley signed — the whole 2025-26 class
16 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.
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
+ 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 16 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 — UT Rio Grande Valley 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.
Texas permits high school NIL for high school athletes. See the Texas NIL rules →
More WAC recruiting standards
Real signee marks for the programs UT Rio Grande Valley recruits against.
D1 standards for the events UT Rio Grande Valley signs
What the whole division signed in each event, not just this program.
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