NCAA Division II Men's 800m Recruiting Standards

Target marks range from 1:48.88 to 1:59.07 across 22 conferences, from the 2026 outdoor performance lists.

Conference	Target	Recruit	Walk-On
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference	1:48.88	1:52.83	1:54.56	15
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association	1:49.97	1:51.56	1:54.74	12
Lone Star Conference	1:50.90	1:52.91	1:54.93	14
Gulf South Conference	1:50.94	1:52.94	1:55.15	7
South Atlantic Conference	1:51.83	1:53.70	1:55.61	12
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	1:52.42	1:54.66	1:56.64	11
Great Northwest Athletic Conference	1:52.59	1:54.18	1:55.38	9
Great Midwest Athletic Conference	1:52.70	1:54.39	1:56.18	12
Peach Belt Conference	1:52.85	1:54.61	1:56.51	10
California Collegiate Athletic Association	1:52.89	1:54.45	1:55.40	13
Great Lakes Valley Conference	1:53.13	1:54.78	1:56.89	14
Mountain East Conference	1:54.20	1:55.15	2:00.04	12
Great American Conference	1:54.26	1:56.09	1:58.09	11
Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference	1:54.30	1:55.61	1:56.71	16
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference	1:54.34	1:55.34	1:57.06	15
Pacific West Conference	1:54.56	1:55.66	1:57.06	7
Northeast 10 Conference	1:54.94	1:58.65	2:00.60	9
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	1:55.68	1:58.27	2:04.99	15
Conference Carolinas	1:55.86	1:57.10	1:59.48	15
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association	1:56.60	1:58.37	2:05.90	11
Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference	1:58.46	2:00.81	2:04.37	10
East Coast Conference	1:59.07	2:02.47	2:05.73	8

Same event elsewhere