Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

What it actually takes to run at Virginia Tech
NCAA Division I · ACC · VA
These aren’t published walk-on standards or estimates. They’re the real marks of the 8 athletes Virginia Tech actually signed in its 2025-26 recruiting class — including 2 international signees. The honest answer to “would they recruit me?”
Virginia Tech is a 30,504-student public campus in Blacksburg, VA and competes in the ACC. Alan Dunson leads a staff of 10 covering 5 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.
Virginia Tech program snapshot
- Division
- NCAA Division I
- Conference
- ACC
- Campus
- Blacksburg, VA
- Enrollment
- 30,504 students
- T&F operating budget
- $2.6M men · $3.0M women
Public institution
Program expense, not scholarship aid
Men's standards
US high-school signees — verified marks from American HS meets.
+1 more event with real signee standards — Long Jump
Members see every event Virginia Tech signed, the full recruiting class with names and marks, program budgets, and coach contacts.
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US high-school signees — verified marks from American HS meets.
+3 more events with real signee standards — 100m Hurdles, Long Jump, Triple Jump
Members see every event Virginia Tech signed, the full recruiting class with names and marks, program budgets, and coach contacts.
Unlock the full standards →Who recruits for Virginia Tech
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, combined events.
- Alan DunsonAssociate Head Coach (Sprints, Hurdles & Relays)Sprints & Hurdles
- Ben ThomasDirector of Track & Field and Cross CountryDistance
- Tim SykesAssociate Head Coach / Distance & Cross CountryDistance
- Bob PhillipsAssistant Coach (Pole Vault)Jumps
- Cleopatra BorelAssistant Coach (Throws)Throws
- Cory ByrdVolunteer Assistant Coach (Sprints)Sprints & Hurdles
- Hannah LongAssistant Coach (Distance)Distance
- John EllisAssistant Coach (Jumps & Multis)Multis
- Jordyn StrangeStudent Manager
- Rachel BaxterAssistant Coach (Jumps & Pole Vault)Jumps
Every Virginia Tech coach’s verified email and phone are in the member database.
Every verified mark in Virginia Tech's 2025-26 class
7 of the 8 athletes signed have a verified high-school mark, shown here with the mark each was signed on. The other one has no verified mark on record, so that athlete is 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: Va. · Fla.
Signed out of: Va.
+ 2 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 7 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 — Virginia Tech 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.
Virginia permits high school NIL for high school athletes. See the Virginia NIL rules →
More ACC recruiting standards
Real signee marks for the programs Virginia Tech recruits against.
- Boston College recruiting standards
- California recruiting standards
- Clemson recruiting standards
- Duke recruiting standards
- Florida State recruiting standards
- Georgia Tech recruiting standards
- Louisville recruiting standards
- Miami FL recruiting standards
- NC State recruiting standards
- North Carolina recruiting standards
- Notre Dame recruiting standards
- Pittsburgh recruiting standards
D1 standards for the events Virginia Tech signs
What the whole division signed in each event, not just this program.
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