NCAA Division III Men's 800m Recruiting Standards

Target marks range from 1:52.29 to 2:18.68 across 36 conferences, from the 2026 outdoor performance lists.

Conference	Target	Recruit	Walk-On
New England Small College Athletic Conference	1:52.29	1:53.86	1:55.52	11
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	1:52.40	1:53.86	1:55.32	8
University Athletic Association	1:52.75	1:54.74	1:56.94	7
Empire 8	1:53.27	1:55.64	1:58.09	8
Centennial Conference	1:53.39	1:55.25	1:59.90	10
American Rivers Conference	1:54.20	1:55.50	1:57.60	8
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	1:54.27	1:55.87	1:57.75	13
Middle Atlantic Conferences	1:54.35	1:56.46	1:59.06	18
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference	1:54.40	1:56.17	1:59.24	10
Liberty League	1:54.78	1:56.09	1:58.67	8
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	1:54.86	1:56.74	1:59.17	10
Northwest Conference	1:55.09	1:56.54	1:58.01	9
Ohio Athletic Conference	1:55.14	1:56.34	1:57.88	9
Old Dominion Athletic Conference	1:55.21	1:57.24	1:58.42	13
Southern Athletic Association	1:55.58	1:56.98	2:01.54	9
North Coast Athletic Conference	1:55.83	1:57.22	1:58.62	9
Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference	1:55.99	1:58.14	2:02.00	8
New Jersey Athletic Conference	1:56.05	1:57.44	2:00.62	8
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association	1:56.41	1:58.90	2:00.97	8
College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin	1:56.46	1:57.63	1:59.31	9
Midwest Conference	1:56.57	1:59.16	2:03.36	10
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference	1:56.60	1:58.41	2:00.60	8
Landmark Conference	1:56.91	1:59.37	2:02.52	8
State University of New York Athletic Conference	1:57.72	1:59.47	2:01.95	12
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference	1:58.05	2:00.18	2:03.33	13
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference	1:58.58	2:01.78	2:06.58	10
Presidents' Athletic Conference	1:58.93	2:00.32	2:02.70	13
Little East Conference	1:59.02	2:01.74	2:05.61	9
USA South Athletic Conference	1:59.75	2:07.19	2:16.94	8
Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference	2:02.63	2:06.79	2:17.71	6
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	2:03.62	2:06.96	2:16.50	8
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference	2:04.04	2:09.65	2:12.92	7
Great Northeast Athletic Conference	2:05.82	2:17.80	2:25.28	7
North Atlantic Conference	2:07.70	2:22.73	2:27.26	6
Atlantic East Conference	2:10.31	2:22.66	2:43.77	4
City University of New York Athletic Conference	2:18.68	2:37.32	3:01.66	5

Same event elsewhere

NCAA D-I men's NCAA D-II men's NAIA men's JUCO men's NCAA D-III women's

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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