NCAA Division III Women's 1500m Recruiting Standards

Target marks range from 4:34.48 to 6:06.06 across 37 conferences, from the 2026 outdoor performance lists.

Conference	Target	Recruit	Walk-On
New England Small College Athletic Conference	4:34.48	4:39.36	4:45.17	11
University Athletic Association	4:35.27	4:40.75	4:43.61	7
Centennial Conference	4:37.96	4:45.83	4:51.45	10
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	4:42.18	4:48.53	4:52.77	10
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	4:42.36	4:45.96	4:48.82	8
American Rivers Conference	4:43.34	4:50.40	4:55.82	8
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association	4:43.66	4:50.36	4:58.29	8
Empire 8	4:44.10	4:50.81	4:59.73	8
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	4:46.00	4:50.43	4:55.29	13
North Coast Athletic Conference	4:46.01	4:48.56	4:55.44	9
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference	4:46.28	4:52.46	5:00.97	10
Midwest Conference	4:46.29	4:58.55	5:05.87	10
Southern Athletic Association	4:46.32	4:53.56	5:00.86	9
Liberty League	4:47.16	4:49.52	4:53.53	8
Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference	4:47.72	4:59.62	5:09.00	8
Presidents' Athletic Conference	4:48.54	5:05.59	5:16.27	13
Middle Atlantic Conferences	4:48.95	4:51.44	5:06.51	18
Northwest Conference	4:49.57	4:53.94	4:59.64	9
Old Dominion Athletic Conference	4:51.26	4:58.42	5:06.86	13
New Jersey Athletic Conference	4:51.66	5:00.06	5:09.44	8
State University of New York Athletic Conference	4:51.86	5:02.34	5:08.42	12
Ohio Athletic Conference	4:52.48	4:59.19	5:05.61	9
College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin	4:52.74	4:59.58	5:08.80	9
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference	4:53.79	5:07.19	5:17.52	10
Landmark Conference	4:55.32	5:08.17	5:19.92	8
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference	4:58.41	5:12.07	5:23.79	13
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference	4:58.77	5:07.62	5:25.54	8
Little East Conference	5:02.81	5:11.40	5:22.79	9
USA South Athletic Conference	5:04.59	5:29.35	5:48.35	8
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference	5:04.96	5:21.46	5:40.01	7
Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference	5:08.46	5:20.55	5:40.57	6
Atlantic East Conference	5:21.23	5:48.54	6:11.73	4
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference	5:21.68	5:51.97	6:57.35	8
Great Northeast Athletic Conference	5:26.31	6:23.15	6:42.88	7
North Atlantic Conference	5:43.17	6:01.41	7:11.05	6
American Southwest Conference	5:46.69	—	—	4
City University of New York Athletic Conference	6:06.06	7:52.20	—	5

Same event elsewhere

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