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Claire Yerby
- Position:
- Mid-Distances
- 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 β¦ 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 β¦ was 10th in the 800m at Big Ten Outdoors in 2:05.90 β¦ 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 β¦ 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 β¦ 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 β¦ 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 β¦ set another 800m best at the Stumptown Twilight on July 19, running 2:02.25, the No. 4 time in school history β¦ competed at her first USATF Outdoor Championships on July 31, finishing 25th overall in the 1,500m in 4:11.89 β¦ 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 womenβs team to an historic fourth-place team score β¦ 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 β¦ 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 β¦ took six seconds off her mile PR, running 4:35.99 at Mile City β¦ at Big Ten Indoors, was 11th in the mile, just missing the final by one spot, and was fifth on the DMR β¦ 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 β¦ placed 75th overall and 8th on the team at the Big Ten Championships in a season-best 20:39 β¦ in the Pre-Nationals B race, came across in 18th-place and second among Huskies β¦ 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 β¦ 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 β¦ was 57th at the Pac-12 Championships, third on the team β¦ was eighth at the Santa Clara Bronco Invite β¦ 30th at the Bill Dellinger Invitational at Oregon β¦ 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 β¦ was 16th at the Pac-12 Track Championships in the 1,500m in 4:23.64 β¦ 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 β¦ was sixth in the 1,500m at the Mt. SAC Relays in 4:18.81 β¦ indoors, ran a mile PR of 4:42.52 at the UW Ken Shannon Last Chance Invite in the Dempsey β¦ 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 β¦ was 69th at the Pac-12 Championships, the top Bears finisher β¦ 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 β¦ sixth in the 1,500m at the Big Meet vs. Stanford in 4:28.23 β¦ ran a 1,500m season-best of 4:27.18 at the Stanford Invite β¦ an 800m season-best of 2:09.82 at the Aztec Invitational for second β¦ 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 β¦ raced at NCAA Regionals β¦ 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 β¦ season-best 1,500m of 4:38.04 at the USC Dual β¦ 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 ⦠parents are Traci and Scott Yerby ⦠has one older brother, Ryan ⦠mother competed in cross country and track & field at Cal State Northridge ⦠father competed in cross country and track & field at UC Davis ⦠brother Ryan played baseball at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute ⦠2020 Half Moon Bay High School Student Athlete of the Year⦠at the 2019 California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Cross Country Championships, finished 28th in Division 4 ⦠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 ⦠named First Team Central Coast Section (CCS) after she finished third in the 1600m run at the CIF CCS Finals ⦠First Team All-Peninsula Athletic League (PAL) from 2017-19 ⦠finished 21st out of 209 runners that year at the CIF State Cross Country Championships ⦠in the 2018 track & field season, finished 10th at the USATF National Junior Olympic Championships ⦠also lettered in basketball ⦠member of the Menlo iGreyhounds Track Club.
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Major Meets
2021 Pac-12 XC β 70th (4th Cal)
2021 Regional XC β 170th (6th Cal)
2022 Pac-12 XC β 69th (1st Cal)
2022 Regional XC β 103rd (2nd Cal)
2022 Pac-12 TF β 19th, 1500m
2023 Pac-12 TF β 16th, 1500m
2023 Pac-12 XC β 57th (3rd Cal)
2023 Regional XC β 61st (2nd Cal)
2023 NCAA Prelims TF β 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
800mβ¦β¦.2:02.25
1500mβ¦β¦.4:07.78
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Indoor Bests
800m.......2:04.67
1000mβ¦β¦.2:52.40
Mileβ¦β¦.4:35.99
3000mβ¦β¦.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 β¦ 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 β¦ was 10th in the 800m at Big Ten Outdoors in 2:05.90 β¦ 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 β¦ 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 β¦ 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 β¦ 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 β¦ set another 800m best at the Stumptown Twilight on July 19, running 2:02.25, the No. 4 time in school history β¦ competed at her first USATF Outdoor Championships on July 31, finishing 25th overall in the 1,500m in 4:11.89 β¦ 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 womenβs team to an historic fourth-place team score β¦ 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 β¦ 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 β¦ took six seconds off her mile PR, running 4:35.99 at Mile City β¦ at Big Ten Indoors, was 11th in the mile, just missing the final by one spot, and was fifth on the DMR β¦ 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 β¦ placed 75th overall and 8th on the team at the Big Ten Championships in a season-best 20:39 β¦ in the Pre-Nationals B race, came across in 18th-place and second among Huskies β¦ 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 β¦ 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 β¦ was 57th at the Pac-12 Championships, third on the team β¦ was eighth at the Santa Clara Bronco Invite β¦ 30th at the Bill Dellinger Invitational at Oregon β¦ 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 β¦ was 16th at the Pac-12 Track Championships in the 1,500m in 4:23.64 β¦ 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 β¦ was sixth in the 1,500m at the Mt. SAC Relays in 4:18.81 β¦ indoors, ran a mile PR of 4:42.52 at the UW Ken Shannon Last Chance Invite in the Dempsey β¦ 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 β¦ was 69th at the Pac-12 Championships, the top Bears finisher β¦ 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 β¦ sixth in the 1,500m at the Big Meet vs. Stanford in 4:28.23 β¦ ran a 1,500m season-best of 4:27.18 at the Stanford Invite β¦ an 800m season-best of 2:09.82 at the Aztec Invitational for second β¦ 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 β¦ raced at NCAA Regionals β¦ 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 β¦ season-best 1,500m of 4:38.04 at the USC Dual β¦ 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 ⦠parents are Traci and Scott Yerby ⦠has one older brother, Ryan ⦠mother competed in cross country and track & field at Cal State Northridge ⦠father competed in cross country and track & field at UC Davis ⦠brother Ryan played baseball at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute ⦠2020 Half Moon Bay High School Student Athlete of the Year⦠at the 2019 California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Cross Country Championships, finished 28th in Division 4 ⦠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 ⦠named First Team Central Coast Section (CCS) after she finished third in the 1600m run at the CIF CCS Finals ⦠First Team All-Peninsula Athletic League (PAL) from 2017-19 ⦠finished 21st out of 209 runners that year at the CIF State Cross Country Championships ⦠in the 2018 track & field season, finished 10th at the USATF National Junior Olympic Championships ⦠also lettered in basketball ⦠member of the Menlo iGreyhounds Track Club.
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Major Meets
2021 Pac-12 XC β 70th (4th Cal)
2021 Regional XC β 170th (6th Cal)
2022 Pac-12 XC β 69th (1st Cal)
2022 Regional XC β 103rd (2nd Cal)
2022 Pac-12 TF β 19th, 1500m
2023 Pac-12 TF β 16th, 1500m
2023 Pac-12 XC β 57th (3rd Cal)
2023 Regional XC β 61st (2nd Cal)
2023 NCAA Prelims TF β 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
800mβ¦β¦.2:02.25
1500mβ¦β¦.4:07.78
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Indoor Bests
800m.......2:04.67
1000mβ¦β¦.2:52.40
Mileβ¦β¦.4:35.99
3000mβ¦β¦.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
