Real Recruiting Standards · 2026-27 cycle

Virginia Tech

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

Public institution

T&F operating budget
$2.6M men · $3.0M women

Program expense, not scholarship aid

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Men's standards

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

200mSprints
22.211 signee
400mSprints
48.391 signee
High JumpJumps
2.03m1 signee

+1 more event with real signee standards — Long Jump

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Women's standards

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

200mSprints
24.673 signees
100mSprints
11.972 signees
400mSprints
56.211 signee

+3 more events with real signee standards — 100m Hurdles, Long Jump, Triple Jump

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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.

Men's class · 2 signed

Signed out of: Va. · Fla.

400m1 signed
48.39
High Jump1 signed
2.03m
Women's class · 5 signed · 3 American shown

Signed out of: Va.

400m1 signed
56.21
100m Hurdles1 signed
14.25
Long Jump1 signed
6.11m

+ 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 →

D1 standards for the events Virginia Tech signs

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

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