Another consideration for timing and the importance of casting a wide net early on, a recent post stated (see link below) “I don’t know how many prereads track and field gets; the Middlebury soccer coach told parents that he has 50 preread spots.”
Some D3 programs like Middlebury will be making official offers in early July right when pre-read results come back (and likely have already made unofficial offers to their top targets) and will wrap up recruiting with verbal commitments shortly after that.
Other programs that are ranked lower academically, athletically, or both will want to wrap up their recruiting on a similar timeline, but in reality may not get things settled until early fall. In that case they’ll still have a large pool of recruits they submitted initially for pre-reads. They might submit other recruits for pre-reads on a rolling basis later in the summer. But it’s unlikely they’d submit someone who wasn’t on their radar and in conversations for months beforehand unless their times are literally blowing others out of the water.
It’s still possible in early May to get on initial pre-read lists for some places (others are already closed out), but time is rapidly running out.