2024 Track & Field Roster
Roster
Herberg, Haley

Haley Herberg
- Position:
- Distances
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Mission Viejo, Calif.
- High School:
- Capistrano Valley
- Prev School:
- Oklahoma
Bio
2020-21 Pac-12 Individual Cross Country Champion
2024 Pac-12 10,000m Bronze Medalist
2022 All-America First Team (10,000m, Outdoors) and Second Team (5,000m, Indoors)
2021 All-America First Teamย (10,000m, Outdoors) and Second Team (5,000m, Outdoors)
2021 All-Pac-12 XC Second Team
2021 All-West Region in Cross Country
2020-21 CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team
2021 Pac-12 10,000m Bronze Medalist
2020 MPSF Champion at 3,000m
2019 Big 12 Indoor Runner-Up at 3,000m & 5,000m
2018 Big 12 Women's Cross Country Newcomer of the Year
2018 All-Midwest Region in Cross Country
2023-24 (Track): A great final comeback season on the track, making the Pac-12 Championships podium outdoors and lowering her own School Record indoors in the 5,000-meters โฆ outdoors, in final race as a Dawg, was 16th in the 10,000-meters at NCAA West Prelims โฆ took third in the 10k at the Pac-12 Championships and doubled back to take eighth in the 5k โฆ season-best 10k time of 32:51.60 at the Stanford Invitational, finishing ninth overall โฆ took eighth in the 5k at the Penn Relays in 15:58.49 and then ran on the 4x1500m relay which finished seventh โฆ indoors, broke her School Record with a 5,000-meters time of 15:38.37 at the Husky Classic, which ranked 23rd nationally โฆ also set a 3,000-meters PR of 9:11.49 at the UW Preview โฆ opened the season in December at the BU Sharon Colyear-Danville Opener, running the 5k in 15:48.04 โฆ earned a selection on the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
2022-23 (Track): Worked her way back from injury to race unattached late in the season โฆ first race back was a 5k at the Payton Jordan Invitational on Apr. 21, going 16:21.20 โฆ improved to 16:08.28 at the Portland Track Festival in June ...ย (Cross Country): Raced one time in the fall while working back to full health โฆ ran at the Pac-12 Championships, placing 21st overall in 19:57 as the teamโs third scorer.
2021-22 (Track): Reached the podium at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 10,000-meters for the second year in a row, earning another First Team All-America honor โฆ in the NCAA 10k final, took a shot and went out to a lead of approximately 200-meters over the rest of the field, and despite being caught with a few laps to go, hung on to finish seventh-place โฆ ran a 10k PR of 32:34.67 at Pac-12s, finishing fourth after doing the work of leading nearly the full race as the top four women all broke the Pac-12 Meet Record โฆ doubled back and took sixth in the Pac-12 5,000m final in 16:06.44 โฆ ran a 5,000m PR of 15:31.14 at the Payton Jordan Invitational, the second-fastest time in school history โฆ indoors, became a school record-holder for the first time, breaking the indoor 5k mark in 15:39.19 at the Husky Classic to qualify for nationals โฆ at NCAA Indoors, was 11th in the 5k final in 15:58.80, earning All-America Second Team โฆ ran a mile PR of 4:38.08 at the UW Invitational โฆ named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team โฆ a Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll member ...ย (Cross Country): Another great season helping lead the Huskies to 11th-place at the NCAA Championships โฆ was the No. 2 Husky at the national meet, placing 91st overall in a time of 20:26 โฆ 11th at the West Regional meet to earn All-West Region honors with a time of 20:15 โฆ was the top Husky finisher at Pac-12s, placing eighth overall in 21:00 to earn All-Pac-12 Second Team โฆ led the team at the Wisconsin Invitational with a 49th-place finish in 20:55 โฆ was 51st at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invite, the No. 5 scorer.
2020-21 (Track): A stellar finish to her breakthrough spring as she earned two All-America honors at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, getting First Team in the 10,000-meters with a fifth-place finish, and Second Team in the 5,000-meters with a 10th-place finish โฆ moved up to the 10k for the first time at the Pac-12 Championships, and a month later was finishing on the NCAA podium, as she posted the second-fastest time in school history of 32:35.59 in Eugene to take fifth โฆ two days later, doubled back to run in the 5,000m NCAA final and was 10th in a time of 15:47.46 โฆ qualified for NCAA Outdoors by taking fifth in the West Prelims 10k in 33:40.32 and then placing seventh in the 5k in 15:58.56 โฆ was third at the Pac-12 Championships in her first 10k, running 32:51.96 in her debut at the distance โฆ set a 5,000m PR and went to No. 5 in school history with a time of 15:36.32 at the West Coast Relays โฆ second in the 1,500m at the UW-WSU Dual in a personal-best 4:18.65 โฆ second in the 5k at the Stanford Invitational in 16:00.03 โฆ focused on cross country during the indoor season but ran one 3,000-meters, going 9:16.39 at the UW Invitational โฆ also earned Academic All-America honors, making the Third Team as awarded by CoSIDA โฆ made the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll โฆ named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team ... (Cross Country): The Pac-12 Champion and the Pac-12 Athlete of the Year thanks to one of the more memorable championship race efforts โฆ not expected to be among the individual title contenders, she went out hard at the UW-hosted Pac-12 meet in University Place, Wash. and opened up an early lead on the field of well over 100 meters, held it for nearly the entire race, and then pulled away down the final stretch after a Stanford runner had finally caught her near the finish, ultimately winning by seven seconds in 19:02 โฆ became the first Husky Pac-12 XC Champion since 2016 โฆ at the NCAA XC Championships, was 55th overall and third among Huskies in 21:05, helping the team place 13th โฆ was the No. 3 finisher at the Battle Born Invite in 20th-place in 20:18 โฆ led the team in the season-opening Silver State Invite in 20:01 for fifth-place overall โฆ a Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll selection โฆ named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
2019-20 (Indoor Track; Outdoor Season Canceled): Won the MPSF Championship at 3,000-meters in her final race of the track season, the first Husky to win that event since 2011, running 9:19.28 โฆ ran a mile PR of 4:44.05 at the UW Invitational, taking second in her heat and 11th overall โฆ ran one 5k indoors, crossing in 16:30.45 at the Husky Classic, the No. 10 time in school history โฆ opened her track season with a 3k at the UW Indoor Preview in 9:19.93 โฆ earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors ...ย (Cross Country): Joined the team right at the beginning of fall quarter and made her Husky debut at the Pac-12 Championships where she finished 25th overall in 20:28 as the No. 7 Husky โฆ was the seventh Husky again at West Regionals in 30th-place in 20:40 as the Huskies took second-place โฆ scored for the Dawgs at the NCAA Championships as she finished 116th in 21:20, the No. 4 scorer, as UW placed 11th as a team.
2018-19 (Track At Oklahoma): Reached the NCAA West Preliminary Championships in her first outdoor season, taking 18th in the 5,000-meters in a time of 16:06.46 โฆ at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, took third in the 1,500-meter final in 4:20.03, and was sixth in the 5k in 16:37.92 โฆ second in the 1,500m at the National Relay Championships in Arkansas, clocking 4:21.06 โฆ got a win at the Bob Larsen Distance Carnival with a time of 16:00.29 in the 5k โฆ first in the 1,500m at the Roadrunner Invite in 4:24.41 โฆ indoors, was the Big 12 Championships runner-up in both the 3k and the 5k, running 9:28.39 in the 3k and 16:22.50 in the 5k โฆ broke 16-minutes indoors in the 5k at the Iowa State Classic, taking ninth in 15:58.44 โฆ a season-best 3k of 9:24.53 at the Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge โฆ (Cross Country At Oklahoma): The Big 12 Womenโs Newcomer of the Year โฆ an individual qualifier to the NCAA Championships, where she placed 78th overall and fifth among all freshmen โฆ qualified for NCAAs with a fifth-place finish at Midwest Regionals for All-Region honors โฆ led the Sooners at the Big 12 Championships with a third-place finish for All-Big 12 honors โฆ placed fifth at the Arturo Barrios Invitational โฆ in her collegiate debut, was 18th at the Joe Piane Invitational.
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High School and Personal: Parents are Shauna and Jim Herberg โฆ has one older sister, Natalie, who ran track and cross country at University of California โฆ the 2017 Orange County Register Athlete of the Year for cross country โฆ won the 2017 California Division-II state cross country title โฆ also won the South Coast League and CIF-SS titles in cross country as a senior โฆ took 17th overall at the 2017 Nike Cross National meet โฆ also won the 2016 South Coast League title โฆ on the track, was sixth at the California state meet in the 3,200-meters in 2018, running 10:21.13 in the final โฆ fourth at the 2018 Arcadia Invite in the 3,200m in 10:18.93 โฆ won four Sea View League individual titles on the track โฆ fourth at the 2016 Arcadia Invite in the mile with a PR of 4:49.22 โฆ a National Merit Commended Scholar and AP Scholar with distinction.
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Major Meets
2018 Big 12 XC โ 3rd (1st OU)
2018 Regional XC โ 5th (1st OU)
2018 NCAA XC โ 78th (Ind)
2019 Big 12 Indoor TF โ 2nd, 3000m | 2nd, 5000m
2019 Big 12 Outdoor TF โ 3rd, 1500m | 6th, 5000m
2019 NCAA Prelims TF โ 18th, 5000m
2019 Pac-12 XC - 25th (7th UW)
2019 Regional XC - 30th (7th UW)
2019 NCAA XC - 116th (4th UW)
2020 MPSF TF - 1st, 3000m (MPSF Champion)
2020-21 Pac-12 XC - 1st (1st UW) (Pac-12 Champion)
2020-21 NCAA XC - 55th (3rd UW)
2021 Pac-12 TF - 3rd, 10000m
2021 NCAA Prelims TF - 7th, 5000m | 5th, 10000m
2021 NCAA Outdoors - 5th 10000m (All-America First Team) | 10th, 5000m (All-America Second Team)
2021 Pac-12 XC - 8th (1st UW)
2021 Regional XC - 11th (2nd UW)
2021 NCAA XC - 91st (2nd UW)
2022 NCAA Indoors - 11th, 5000m (All-America Second Team)
2022 Pac-12 TF - 6th, 5000m | 4th, 10000m
2022 NCAA Prelims TF - 22nd, 5000m | 4th, 10000m
2022 NCAA Outdoors - 7th, 10000m (All-America First Team)
2022 Pac-12 XC - 21st (3rd UW)
2024 Pac-12 TF - 8th, 5000m | 3rd, 10000m
2024 NCAA Prelims TF - 16th, 10000m
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Outdoor Bests
1500mโฆโฆ.4:18.65
5000mโฆโฆ.15:31.14
10000m.......32:34.67
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Indoor Bests
Mile.......4:38.08
3000mโฆโฆ.9:11.49
5000mโฆโฆ.15:38.37ย (School Record)
Academic Honors
2024ย USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2022ย USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2022ย Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2020-21 CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team
2021 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2021 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2020ย USTFCCCA All-Academic Team XC
2020 Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
2020 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2024 Pac-12 10,000m Bronze Medalist
2022 All-America First Team (10,000m, Outdoors) and Second Team (5,000m, Indoors)
2021 All-America First Teamย (10,000m, Outdoors) and Second Team (5,000m, Outdoors)
2021 All-Pac-12 XC Second Team
2021 All-West Region in Cross Country
2020-21 CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team
2021 Pac-12 10,000m Bronze Medalist
2020 MPSF Champion at 3,000m
2019 Big 12 Indoor Runner-Up at 3,000m & 5,000m
2018 Big 12 Women's Cross Country Newcomer of the Year
2018 All-Midwest Region in Cross Country
2023-24 (Track): A great final comeback season on the track, making the Pac-12 Championships podium outdoors and lowering her own School Record indoors in the 5,000-meters โฆ outdoors, in final race as a Dawg, was 16th in the 10,000-meters at NCAA West Prelims โฆ took third in the 10k at the Pac-12 Championships and doubled back to take eighth in the 5k โฆ season-best 10k time of 32:51.60 at the Stanford Invitational, finishing ninth overall โฆ took eighth in the 5k at the Penn Relays in 15:58.49 and then ran on the 4x1500m relay which finished seventh โฆ indoors, broke her School Record with a 5,000-meters time of 15:38.37 at the Husky Classic, which ranked 23rd nationally โฆ also set a 3,000-meters PR of 9:11.49 at the UW Preview โฆ opened the season in December at the BU Sharon Colyear-Danville Opener, running the 5k in 15:48.04 โฆ earned a selection on the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
2022-23 (Track): Worked her way back from injury to race unattached late in the season โฆ first race back was a 5k at the Payton Jordan Invitational on Apr. 21, going 16:21.20 โฆ improved to 16:08.28 at the Portland Track Festival in June ...ย (Cross Country): Raced one time in the fall while working back to full health โฆ ran at the Pac-12 Championships, placing 21st overall in 19:57 as the teamโs third scorer.
2021-22 (Track): Reached the podium at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 10,000-meters for the second year in a row, earning another First Team All-America honor โฆ in the NCAA 10k final, took a shot and went out to a lead of approximately 200-meters over the rest of the field, and despite being caught with a few laps to go, hung on to finish seventh-place โฆ ran a 10k PR of 32:34.67 at Pac-12s, finishing fourth after doing the work of leading nearly the full race as the top four women all broke the Pac-12 Meet Record โฆ doubled back and took sixth in the Pac-12 5,000m final in 16:06.44 โฆ ran a 5,000m PR of 15:31.14 at the Payton Jordan Invitational, the second-fastest time in school history โฆ indoors, became a school record-holder for the first time, breaking the indoor 5k mark in 15:39.19 at the Husky Classic to qualify for nationals โฆ at NCAA Indoors, was 11th in the 5k final in 15:58.80, earning All-America Second Team โฆ ran a mile PR of 4:38.08 at the UW Invitational โฆ named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team โฆ a Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll member ...ย (Cross Country): Another great season helping lead the Huskies to 11th-place at the NCAA Championships โฆ was the No. 2 Husky at the national meet, placing 91st overall in a time of 20:26 โฆ 11th at the West Regional meet to earn All-West Region honors with a time of 20:15 โฆ was the top Husky finisher at Pac-12s, placing eighth overall in 21:00 to earn All-Pac-12 Second Team โฆ led the team at the Wisconsin Invitational with a 49th-place finish in 20:55 โฆ was 51st at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invite, the No. 5 scorer.
2020-21 (Track): A stellar finish to her breakthrough spring as she earned two All-America honors at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, getting First Team in the 10,000-meters with a fifth-place finish, and Second Team in the 5,000-meters with a 10th-place finish โฆ moved up to the 10k for the first time at the Pac-12 Championships, and a month later was finishing on the NCAA podium, as she posted the second-fastest time in school history of 32:35.59 in Eugene to take fifth โฆ two days later, doubled back to run in the 5,000m NCAA final and was 10th in a time of 15:47.46 โฆ qualified for NCAA Outdoors by taking fifth in the West Prelims 10k in 33:40.32 and then placing seventh in the 5k in 15:58.56 โฆ was third at the Pac-12 Championships in her first 10k, running 32:51.96 in her debut at the distance โฆ set a 5,000m PR and went to No. 5 in school history with a time of 15:36.32 at the West Coast Relays โฆ second in the 1,500m at the UW-WSU Dual in a personal-best 4:18.65 โฆ second in the 5k at the Stanford Invitational in 16:00.03 โฆ focused on cross country during the indoor season but ran one 3,000-meters, going 9:16.39 at the UW Invitational โฆ also earned Academic All-America honors, making the Third Team as awarded by CoSIDA โฆ made the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll โฆ named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team ... (Cross Country): The Pac-12 Champion and the Pac-12 Athlete of the Year thanks to one of the more memorable championship race efforts โฆ not expected to be among the individual title contenders, she went out hard at the UW-hosted Pac-12 meet in University Place, Wash. and opened up an early lead on the field of well over 100 meters, held it for nearly the entire race, and then pulled away down the final stretch after a Stanford runner had finally caught her near the finish, ultimately winning by seven seconds in 19:02 โฆ became the first Husky Pac-12 XC Champion since 2016 โฆ at the NCAA XC Championships, was 55th overall and third among Huskies in 21:05, helping the team place 13th โฆ was the No. 3 finisher at the Battle Born Invite in 20th-place in 20:18 โฆ led the team in the season-opening Silver State Invite in 20:01 for fifth-place overall โฆ a Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll selection โฆ named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
2019-20 (Indoor Track; Outdoor Season Canceled): Won the MPSF Championship at 3,000-meters in her final race of the track season, the first Husky to win that event since 2011, running 9:19.28 โฆ ran a mile PR of 4:44.05 at the UW Invitational, taking second in her heat and 11th overall โฆ ran one 5k indoors, crossing in 16:30.45 at the Husky Classic, the No. 10 time in school history โฆ opened her track season with a 3k at the UW Indoor Preview in 9:19.93 โฆ earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors ...ย (Cross Country): Joined the team right at the beginning of fall quarter and made her Husky debut at the Pac-12 Championships where she finished 25th overall in 20:28 as the No. 7 Husky โฆ was the seventh Husky again at West Regionals in 30th-place in 20:40 as the Huskies took second-place โฆ scored for the Dawgs at the NCAA Championships as she finished 116th in 21:20, the No. 4 scorer, as UW placed 11th as a team.
2018-19 (Track At Oklahoma): Reached the NCAA West Preliminary Championships in her first outdoor season, taking 18th in the 5,000-meters in a time of 16:06.46 โฆ at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, took third in the 1,500-meter final in 4:20.03, and was sixth in the 5k in 16:37.92 โฆ second in the 1,500m at the National Relay Championships in Arkansas, clocking 4:21.06 โฆ got a win at the Bob Larsen Distance Carnival with a time of 16:00.29 in the 5k โฆ first in the 1,500m at the Roadrunner Invite in 4:24.41 โฆ indoors, was the Big 12 Championships runner-up in both the 3k and the 5k, running 9:28.39 in the 3k and 16:22.50 in the 5k โฆ broke 16-minutes indoors in the 5k at the Iowa State Classic, taking ninth in 15:58.44 โฆ a season-best 3k of 9:24.53 at the Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge โฆ (Cross Country At Oklahoma): The Big 12 Womenโs Newcomer of the Year โฆ an individual qualifier to the NCAA Championships, where she placed 78th overall and fifth among all freshmen โฆ qualified for NCAAs with a fifth-place finish at Midwest Regionals for All-Region honors โฆ led the Sooners at the Big 12 Championships with a third-place finish for All-Big 12 honors โฆ placed fifth at the Arturo Barrios Invitational โฆ in her collegiate debut, was 18th at the Joe Piane Invitational.
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High School and Personal: Parents are Shauna and Jim Herberg โฆ has one older sister, Natalie, who ran track and cross country at University of California โฆ the 2017 Orange County Register Athlete of the Year for cross country โฆ won the 2017 California Division-II state cross country title โฆ also won the South Coast League and CIF-SS titles in cross country as a senior โฆ took 17th overall at the 2017 Nike Cross National meet โฆ also won the 2016 South Coast League title โฆ on the track, was sixth at the California state meet in the 3,200-meters in 2018, running 10:21.13 in the final โฆ fourth at the 2018 Arcadia Invite in the 3,200m in 10:18.93 โฆ won four Sea View League individual titles on the track โฆ fourth at the 2016 Arcadia Invite in the mile with a PR of 4:49.22 โฆ a National Merit Commended Scholar and AP Scholar with distinction.
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Major Meets
2018 Big 12 XC โ 3rd (1st OU)
2018 Regional XC โ 5th (1st OU)
2018 NCAA XC โ 78th (Ind)
2019 Big 12 Indoor TF โ 2nd, 3000m | 2nd, 5000m
2019 Big 12 Outdoor TF โ 3rd, 1500m | 6th, 5000m
2019 NCAA Prelims TF โ 18th, 5000m
2019 Pac-12 XC - 25th (7th UW)
2019 Regional XC - 30th (7th UW)
2019 NCAA XC - 116th (4th UW)
2020 MPSF TF - 1st, 3000m (MPSF Champion)
2020-21 Pac-12 XC - 1st (1st UW) (Pac-12 Champion)
2020-21 NCAA XC - 55th (3rd UW)
2021 Pac-12 TF - 3rd, 10000m
2021 NCAA Prelims TF - 7th, 5000m | 5th, 10000m
2021 NCAA Outdoors - 5th 10000m (All-America First Team) | 10th, 5000m (All-America Second Team)
2021 Pac-12 XC - 8th (1st UW)
2021 Regional XC - 11th (2nd UW)
2021 NCAA XC - 91st (2nd UW)
2022 NCAA Indoors - 11th, 5000m (All-America Second Team)
2022 Pac-12 TF - 6th, 5000m | 4th, 10000m
2022 NCAA Prelims TF - 22nd, 5000m | 4th, 10000m
2022 NCAA Outdoors - 7th, 10000m (All-America First Team)
2022 Pac-12 XC - 21st (3rd UW)
2024 Pac-12 TF - 8th, 5000m | 3rd, 10000m
2024 NCAA Prelims TF - 16th, 10000m
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Outdoor Bests
1500mโฆโฆ.4:18.65
5000mโฆโฆ.15:31.14
10000m.......32:34.67
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Indoor Bests
Mile.......4:38.08
3000mโฆโฆ.9:11.49
5000mโฆโฆ.15:38.37ย (School Record)
Academic Honors
2024ย USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2022ย USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2022ย Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2020-21 CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team
2021 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
2021 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2020ย USTFCCCA All-Academic Team XC
2020 Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
2020 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team TF
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