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Claire Yerby
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Montara, Calif.
- High School:
- Half Moon Bay
- Prev School:
- California
2025 All-America First Team (DMR)
Pursuing post-baccalaureate studies at UW after four years competing for Cal-Berkeley where she completed her Bachelors degree majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology: Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development.
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2024-25: Improved by leaps and bounds in her one season as a Husky, taking major time off her 800m and 1,500m PRs en route to qualifying and competing at the USATF Championships โฆ earned All-America honors indoors on the Husky DMR.
2025 Outdoor Track: Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims quarterfinals in the 1,500m, coming up just a couple spots shy of reaching nationals with a 15th-place finish in 4:15.11 โฆ was 10th in the 800m at Big Ten Outdoors in 2:05.90 โฆ first 1,500m PR took two seconds off at the Bryan Clay Invite, running 4:14.78 and ran an 800m PR of 2:04.47 โฆ at the Penn Relays, lowered PR again to 4:13.20, and then ran on the 4x800m relay that finished third in the Championship of America โฆ Summer: Times continued to drop starting in June at the Brooks PR Invite, as she cut two more seconds off her 800m PR, going 2:02.69 โฆ took a huge six more seconds off 1,500m PR at the Portland Track Festival, clocking 4:07.78 to go to No. 4 in UW history โฆ set another 800m best at the Stumptown Twilight on July 19, running 2:02.25, the No. 4 time in school history โฆ competed at her first USATF Outdoor Championships on July 31, finishing 25th overall in the 1,500m in 4:11.89 โฆ a USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree.
2025 Indoor Track: Earned First Team All-America honors as the 800m leg on the Husky distance medley relay that finished eighth overall at NCAA Indoors in 11:02.31, helping the womenโs team to an historic fourth-place team score โฆ also was the 800m leg on the DMR when it qualified for NCAAs with a School Record 10:40.44, the fourth-fastest time in NCAA history โฆ cut three seconds off her 800m PR during the season, with a best of 2:04.67 at the Husky Classic, ranking 7th in school history โฆ took six seconds off her mile PR, running 4:35.99 at Mile City โฆ at Big Ten Indoors, was 11th in the mile, just missing the final by one spot, and was fifth on the DMR โฆ opened the year at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Opener in Boston, running a 3,000m PR of 9:18.06.
2024 Cross Country: Raced three times in her first season as a Dawg โฆ placed 75th overall and 8th on the team at the Big Ten Championships in a season-best 20:39 โฆ in the Pre-Nationals B race, came across in 18th-place and second among Huskies โฆ was the No. 8 Husky finisher at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational in 187th-place overall as UW won the title.
2024 Track At Cal: Raced just once outdoors, competing at the Hornet Invite on Mar. 15-16 โฆ indoors, ran at two meets, with a mile time of 4:46.67 at the UW Ken Shannon Last Chance.
2023 Cross Country At Cal: Placed 61st overall at the West Regionals in 20:42, the second Cal finisher โฆ was 57th at the Pac-12 Championships, third on the team โฆ was eighth at the Santa Clara Bronco Invite โฆ 30th at the Bill Dellinger Invitational at Oregon โฆ opened the year at the USF Invite, finishing 14th.
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2023 Track At Cal: Reached the NCAA West Prelims in the 1,500-meters, placing 42nd in the first round in 4:24.02 โฆ was 16th at the Pac-12 Track Championships in the 1,500m in 4:23.64 โฆ ran a 1,500-meter PR in a victory at the Big Meet vs Stanford, going 4:16.41, and also had an 800m PR in the same meet of 2:07.72 โฆ was sixth in the 1,500m at the Mt. SAC Relays in 4:18.81 โฆ indoors, ran a mile PR of 4:42.52 at the UW Ken Shannon Last Chance Invite in the Dempsey โฆ at the Husky Classic, ran a mile of 4:43.38 and a 3,000m PR of 9:23.64.
2022 Cross Country At Cal: Finished the fall at West Regionals, finishing 103rd overall, second on the squad โฆ was 69th at the Pac-12 Championships, the top Bears finisher โฆ also placed 33rd at the Santa Clara Invite and 106th at the UCR Invitational.
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2022 Track At Cal: Raced at the Pac-12 Championships, finishing 19th in the 1,500-meters โฆ sixth in the 1,500m at the Big Meet vs. Stanford in 4:28.23 โฆ ran a 1,500m season-best of 4:27.18 at the Stanford Invite โฆ an 800m season-best of 2:09.82 at the Aztec Invitational for second โฆ indoors, clocked a mile of 4:51.06 at the Pac-12 Invitational at the Dempsey.
2021 Cross Country At Cal: Placed 70th overall at her first Pac-12 Championships โฆ raced at NCAA Regionals โฆ first cross country race was the University of San Francisco Invitational on Sept. 4, placing 48th.
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2021 Track At Cal: Eighth in the Big Meet vs. Stanford in the 800m โฆ season-best 1,500m of 4:38.04 at the USC Dual โฆ first race was a 1,500m in a dual with Sacramento State on Mar. 6, running 4:46.04.
2020 Cross Country At Cal: Did not run during XC season which was moved to the spring of 2021 due to the pandemic.
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High School and Personal: Born in Palo Alto, California โฆ parents are Traci and Scott Yerby โฆ has one older brother, Ryan โฆ mother competed in cross country and track & field at Cal State Northridge โฆ father competed in cross country and track & field at UC Davis โฆ brother Ryan played baseball at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute โฆ 2020 Half Moon Bay High School Student Athlete of the Yearโฆ at the 2019 California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Cross Country Championships, finished 28th in Division 4 โฆ in the 2019 track & field season, finished first in the 4x800m relay and sixth in the 1500m run at the USATF National Junior Olympic Championships โฆ named First Team Central Coast Section (CCS) after she finished third in the 1600m run at the CIF CCS Finals โฆ First Team All-Peninsula Athletic League (PAL) from 2017-19 โฆ finished 21stย out of 209 runners that year at the CIF State Cross Country Championships โฆ in the 2018 track & field season, finished 10thย at the USATF National Junior Olympic Championships โฆ also lettered in basketball โฆ member of the Menlo iGreyhounds Track Club.
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Major Meets
2021 Pac-12 XC โ 70th (4th Cal)
2021 Regional XC โ 170th (6th Cal)
2022 Pac-12 XC โ 69th (1st Cal)
2022 Regional XC โ 103rd (2nd Cal)
2022 Pac-12 TF โ 19th, 1500m
2023 Pac-12 TF โ 16th, 1500m
2023 Pac-12 XC โ 57th (3rd Cal)
2023 Regional XC โ 61st (2nd Cal)
2023 NCAA Prelims TF โ 42nd, 1500m
2024 Big Ten XC - 75th (8th UW)
2025 Big Ten Indoor TF - 11th, Mile | 5th, DMR
2025 NCAA Indoors - 8th, DMR (All-America First Team)
2025 Big Ten Outdoor TF - 10th, 800m
2025 NCAA Prelims TF - 15th, 1500m
2025 USATF Outdoors - 25th, 1500m
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Outdoor Bests
800mโฆโฆ.2:02.25
1500mโฆโฆ.4:07.78
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Indoor Bests
800m.......2:04.67
1000mโฆโฆ.2:52.40
Mileโฆโฆ.4:35.99
3000mโฆโฆ.9:18.06
Academic Honors
2025 USTFCCCA All-Academic TF
10-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll at Cal
Pursuing post-baccalaureate studies at UW after four years competing for Cal-Berkeley where she completed her Bachelors degree majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology: Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development.
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2024-25: Improved by leaps and bounds in her one season as a Husky, taking major time off her 800m and 1,500m PRs en route to qualifying and competing at the USATF Championships โฆ earned All-America honors indoors on the Husky DMR.
2025 Outdoor Track: Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims quarterfinals in the 1,500m, coming up just a couple spots shy of reaching nationals with a 15th-place finish in 4:15.11 โฆ was 10th in the 800m at Big Ten Outdoors in 2:05.90 โฆ first 1,500m PR took two seconds off at the Bryan Clay Invite, running 4:14.78 and ran an 800m PR of 2:04.47 โฆ at the Penn Relays, lowered PR again to 4:13.20, and then ran on the 4x800m relay that finished third in the Championship of America โฆ Summer: Times continued to drop starting in June at the Brooks PR Invite, as she cut two more seconds off her 800m PR, going 2:02.69 โฆ took a huge six more seconds off 1,500m PR at the Portland Track Festival, clocking 4:07.78 to go to No. 4 in UW history โฆ set another 800m best at the Stumptown Twilight on July 19, running 2:02.25, the No. 4 time in school history โฆ competed at her first USATF Outdoor Championships on July 31, finishing 25th overall in the 1,500m in 4:11.89 โฆ a USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree.
2025 Indoor Track: Earned First Team All-America honors as the 800m leg on the Husky distance medley relay that finished eighth overall at NCAA Indoors in 11:02.31, helping the womenโs team to an historic fourth-place team score โฆ also was the 800m leg on the DMR when it qualified for NCAAs with a School Record 10:40.44, the fourth-fastest time in NCAA history โฆ cut three seconds off her 800m PR during the season, with a best of 2:04.67 at the Husky Classic, ranking 7th in school history โฆ took six seconds off her mile PR, running 4:35.99 at Mile City โฆ at Big Ten Indoors, was 11th in the mile, just missing the final by one spot, and was fifth on the DMR โฆ opened the year at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Opener in Boston, running a 3,000m PR of 9:18.06.
2024 Cross Country: Raced three times in her first season as a Dawg โฆ placed 75th overall and 8th on the team at the Big Ten Championships in a season-best 20:39 โฆ in the Pre-Nationals B race, came across in 18th-place and second among Huskies โฆ was the No. 8 Husky finisher at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational in 187th-place overall as UW won the title.
2024 Track At Cal: Raced just once outdoors, competing at the Hornet Invite on Mar. 15-16 โฆ indoors, ran at two meets, with a mile time of 4:46.67 at the UW Ken Shannon Last Chance.
2023 Cross Country At Cal: Placed 61st overall at the West Regionals in 20:42, the second Cal finisher โฆ was 57th at the Pac-12 Championships, third on the team โฆ was eighth at the Santa Clara Bronco Invite โฆ 30th at the Bill Dellinger Invitational at Oregon โฆ opened the year at the USF Invite, finishing 14th.
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2023 Track At Cal: Reached the NCAA West Prelims in the 1,500-meters, placing 42nd in the first round in 4:24.02 โฆ was 16th at the Pac-12 Track Championships in the 1,500m in 4:23.64 โฆ ran a 1,500-meter PR in a victory at the Big Meet vs Stanford, going 4:16.41, and also had an 800m PR in the same meet of 2:07.72 โฆ was sixth in the 1,500m at the Mt. SAC Relays in 4:18.81 โฆ indoors, ran a mile PR of 4:42.52 at the UW Ken Shannon Last Chance Invite in the Dempsey โฆ at the Husky Classic, ran a mile of 4:43.38 and a 3,000m PR of 9:23.64.
2022 Cross Country At Cal: Finished the fall at West Regionals, finishing 103rd overall, second on the squad โฆ was 69th at the Pac-12 Championships, the top Bears finisher โฆ also placed 33rd at the Santa Clara Invite and 106th at the UCR Invitational.
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2022 Track At Cal: Raced at the Pac-12 Championships, finishing 19th in the 1,500-meters โฆ sixth in the 1,500m at the Big Meet vs. Stanford in 4:28.23 โฆ ran a 1,500m season-best of 4:27.18 at the Stanford Invite โฆ an 800m season-best of 2:09.82 at the Aztec Invitational for second โฆ indoors, clocked a mile of 4:51.06 at the Pac-12 Invitational at the Dempsey.
2021 Cross Country At Cal: Placed 70th overall at her first Pac-12 Championships โฆ raced at NCAA Regionals โฆ first cross country race was the University of San Francisco Invitational on Sept. 4, placing 48th.
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2021 Track At Cal: Eighth in the Big Meet vs. Stanford in the 800m โฆ season-best 1,500m of 4:38.04 at the USC Dual โฆ first race was a 1,500m in a dual with Sacramento State on Mar. 6, running 4:46.04.
2020 Cross Country At Cal: Did not run during XC season which was moved to the spring of 2021 due to the pandemic.
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High School and Personal: Born in Palo Alto, California โฆ parents are Traci and Scott Yerby โฆ has one older brother, Ryan โฆ mother competed in cross country and track & field at Cal State Northridge โฆ father competed in cross country and track & field at UC Davis โฆ brother Ryan played baseball at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute โฆ 2020 Half Moon Bay High School Student Athlete of the Yearโฆ at the 2019 California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Cross Country Championships, finished 28th in Division 4 โฆ in the 2019 track & field season, finished first in the 4x800m relay and sixth in the 1500m run at the USATF National Junior Olympic Championships โฆ named First Team Central Coast Section (CCS) after she finished third in the 1600m run at the CIF CCS Finals โฆ First Team All-Peninsula Athletic League (PAL) from 2017-19 โฆ finished 21stย out of 209 runners that year at the CIF State Cross Country Championships โฆ in the 2018 track & field season, finished 10thย at the USATF National Junior Olympic Championships โฆ also lettered in basketball โฆ member of the Menlo iGreyhounds Track Club.
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Major Meets
2021 Pac-12 XC โ 70th (4th Cal)
2021 Regional XC โ 170th (6th Cal)
2022 Pac-12 XC โ 69th (1st Cal)
2022 Regional XC โ 103rd (2nd Cal)
2022 Pac-12 TF โ 19th, 1500m
2023 Pac-12 TF โ 16th, 1500m
2023 Pac-12 XC โ 57th (3rd Cal)
2023 Regional XC โ 61st (2nd Cal)
2023 NCAA Prelims TF โ 42nd, 1500m
2024 Big Ten XC - 75th (8th UW)
2025 Big Ten Indoor TF - 11th, Mile | 5th, DMR
2025 NCAA Indoors - 8th, DMR (All-America First Team)
2025 Big Ten Outdoor TF - 10th, 800m
2025 NCAA Prelims TF - 15th, 1500m
2025 USATF Outdoors - 25th, 1500m
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Outdoor Bests
800mโฆโฆ.2:02.25
1500mโฆโฆ.4:07.78
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Indoor Bests
800m.......2:04.67
1000mโฆโฆ.2:52.40
Mileโฆโฆ.4:35.99
3000mโฆโฆ.9:18.06
Academic Honors
2025 USTFCCCA All-Academic TF
10-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll at Cal
Raising the Bar | Hana & Amanda Moll
Monday, August 04
Women's 1500m final - 2025 NCAA outdoor track and field championship
Sunday, June 15
Nathan Green | 2025 NCAA 1500m Champion
Saturday, June 14
Track & Field NCAA Championships | Huskies Highlights
Friday, June 13
