What are track and field recruiting standards?

They're the marks a college coaching staff publishes to show the level it recruits at, usually split into tiers such as a target or scholarship standard and a walk-on or roster standard. Each program sets its own, and the NCAA doesn't publish a recruiting standard of its own.

What 100m time do you need for D1 track?

It depends on the program. Across the 17 Division I programs in our dataset that publish a men's 100m recruiting line, it runs from 10.20 to 10.80 (median 10.50). For women it runs from 11.30 to 12.25 (median 11.75) across 18 programs.

What's the difference between a scholarship standard and a walk-on standard?

A scholarship or recruitment standard is the level at which a program will consider you for athletic aid or an active recruitment. A walk-on, try-out or roster standard is a slower line for joining the team without aid. Some programs also print a faster target mark above both.

Do my times have to be FAT?

For sprints and hurdles, almost always. UCLA, Duke, Seton Hill and Tampa say so on their sheets, and Columbia also wants a wind reading with every mark. Seton Hill rules out hand times by name, and you should expect other programs to discount them too.

Does hitting a standard guarantee a roster spot or scholarship?

No. Roster spots and scholarships also depend on academics, team needs, scholarship money and the coach's judgment, and many of the sheets in our dataset say so. Some programs, USC, Dartmouth and Marshall among them, also say they may take athletes who miss the marks.

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Track and field recruiting standards

We copied the recruiting marks 22 college programs post on their own athletics sites and noted the season on each sheet. Enter a time to see which tiers you meet, or open a program for its full sprint, hurdle and middle-distance table.

Retrieved October 2026. Programs update their standards every year, so confirm them with the coaching staff.

Check your time against published standards

Enter a fully automatic (FAT) time. Most programs only accept FAT marks for sprints and hurdles.

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21 programs in our dataset publish a men's 100m standard. Enter a time to compare yours.

Standards by program

NCAA Division I (18)

NCAA Division II (2)

Seton Hill recruiting standardsD2 · PSAC · December 2025 sheets Tampa recruiting standardsD2 · Sunshine State · Current pages (they reference the 2026-27 academic year)

NCAA Division III (2)

MIT recruiting standardsD3 · NEWMAC · Updated June 2025 Wesleyan recruiting standardsD3 · NESCAC · October 2025 sheet

Standards by division

How to read a recruiting standard

Programs name their tiers differently. A target mark describes the athlete a staff hopes to land, a scholarship or recruitment mark is where it starts considering aid, and a walk-on or roster mark is the slowest time it will take onto the team. Each program page explains that program's own labels.

Most sheets ask for FAT, wind-legal marks, and several set a deadline. Yale wants its marks by the end of junior year, Clemson and Michigan call theirs junior-year targets, Columbia sets July 1 before senior year and Princeton the start of senior year.

Hitting a mark gets you a conversation with the staff, and they will still weigh your grades, their event needs and how your times are trending. Start it with the program's questionnaire and a short email to your event coach.

If you don't know where your time sits yet, rate your 100m, 200m or 400m or read the speed guides.

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