Herberg Finishes Seventh In 10k Final

NCAA Outdoor Championships

June 8-11 | Eugene, Ore. | Hayward Field

 
Friday, June 10
Men’s Events (plus Women’s Heptathlon)
1:00 pm – Heptathlon 100m Hurdles – Ida Eikeng
2:00 pm – Heptathlon High Jump – Ida Eikeng
4:00 pm – Heptathlon Shot Put – Ida Eikeng
5:35 pm – Discus – Elijah Mason
6:12 pm – 1500m Finals – Nathan Green, Luke Houser, Joe Waskom
7:43 pm – Heptathlon 200m – Ida Eikeng
7:55 pm – 5000m Finals – Brian Fay
 
Saturday, June 11
Women’s Events
10:30 am – Heptathlon Long Jump – Ida Eikeng
11:45 am – Heptathlon Javelin – Ida Eikeng
2:05 pm – Discus – Beatrice Asomaning
4:13 pm – Heptathlon 800m – Ida Eikeng

EUGENE, Ore. – If there’s one thing Haley Herberg doesn’t mind doing, it’s taking a long solo run in a championship race. Multiple times in her career, Herberg has gone straight to the front and made the rest of the Pac-12’s or NCAA’s best runners catch her. Herberg went for it again tonight in the NCAA final for 10,000-meters, and while she was eventually caught, she still hung on for a seventh-place finish.

 

Herberg scored in the NCAA final for the second year in a row, after finishing fifth in 2021. Her seventh-place finish earned two team points to get the Dawgs their first points at this year’s NCAA Outdoor Championships at Hayward Field.

 

Herberg led the 10k for about 7,500-meters, and at one point had built a lead of over twenty seconds on the rest of the field. But national cross country champion Mercy Chelangat of Alabama caught her with six laps to go. Herberg was able to still battle her way to the finish in 33:20.33, finishing seventh for her fourth career All-America honor.

 

Earlier in the day, Carley Thomas and Anna Gibson both fell a couple spots shy of advancing to finals, while Makenna Barton and Ollie Thorner each earned their first All-America honors.

 

Gibson found herself boxed in late in a tactical 1,500-meter semifinal and couldn’t quite track down the top-five over the final hundred meters. She finished seventh in her heat of twelve, in 4:22.42, and would earn All-America honorable mention.

 

Thomas also had to…