NCAA Division III Men's 400m Recruiting Standards

Target marks range from 48.57 to 54.62 across 37 conferences, from the 2026 outdoor performance lists.

Conference	Target	Recruit	Walk-On
New England Small College Athletic Conference	48.57	49.21	49.95	11
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	48.57	48.98	49.50	8
New Jersey Athletic Conference	48.71	49.68	51.06	8
American Rivers Conference	48.82	49.39	50.30	8
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	48.84	49.83	50.82	10
University Athletic Association	48.87	50.28	52.19	7
Empire 8	48.88	49.95	51.24	8
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference	48.95	50.31	51.07	8
Ohio Athletic Conference	49.06	50.22	50.86	9
Presidents' Athletic Conference	49.26	51.05	52.41	13
Old Dominion Athletic Conference	49.36	50.36	51.80	13
North Coast Athletic Conference	49.41	50.13	50.88	9
Liberty League	49.51	50.25	50.84	8
Southern Athletic Association	49.51	51.06	52.73	9
Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference	49.57	51.12	53.10	8
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	49.61	50.46	50.98	13
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference	49.66	50.31	52.21	10
Northwest Conference	49.66	50.45	51.29	9
College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin	49.69	50.24	51.59	9
State University of New York Athletic Conference	49.74	50.30	51.54	12
Centennial Conference	49.87	50.73	52.29	10
Middle Atlantic Conferences	49.89	50.52	51.38	18
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference	49.95	52.42	53.44	10
Landmark Conference	49.96	50.86	51.63	8
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association	50.07	51.39	52.39	8
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference	50.32	51.85	53.34	13
USA South Athletic Conference	50.52	52.59	58.00	8
Midwest Conference	50.62	51.61	52.83	10
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	51.10	53.90	56.55	8
Little East Conference	51.20	51.68	52.67	9
Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference	51.42	52.90	54.69	6
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference	51.79	52.53	55.81	7
Atlantic East Conference	53.01	56.80	1:00.18	4
City University of New York Athletic Conference	53.06	58.80	1:04.23	5
American Southwest Conference	53.67	—	—	4
Great Northeast Athletic Conference	53.79	54.96	58.39	7
North Atlantic Conference	54.62	58.18	1:04.07	6

Same event elsewhere

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What these levels mean

TargetWould score at the conference meet (top 8).
RecruitIn the conference's top 15.
Walk-OnOn the conference list (top 25).

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