TFRRS Performance Profile
Career Accolades
- Moved up to No. 9 in the 60 hurdles on Stanford's all-time indoor list
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021)
Personal Bests (thru 2021 outdoors)
- High jump: 6-10 ¼ (2.08m)
- Long jump: 22-11 (6.98m)
- 110 hurdles: 14.69
- 60 hurdles: 8.29
- 400 hurdles: 59.31
- Heptathlon: 4,860
As a Senior (2021)
Outdoors
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
- Ran an all-conditions PB of 14.60w in the 110 hurdles to place second at the Big Meet
- Season best 14.71 came at the Stanford Invitational
Indoors
- In his first competition in three years, competed in 60 hurdles and long jump at Championships at the Peak.
- Placed 10th in 60 hurdles in personal best 8.29 seconds
- The time placed him No. 9 on Stanford's all-time indoor performers' list
As a Junior (2020)
Outdoors
- Season canceled
Indoors
- Did not compete
As a Sophomore (2019)
Outdoors
- Did not compete.
Indoors
- Did not compete.
As a Freshman (2018)
Outdoors
- Placed eighth in the Pac-12 decathlon, though his meet was curtailed by injury
- Made collegiate outdoor debut at the Hornet Invitational, high-jumping 6-4 3/4 (1.95m)
Indoors
- Seventh in the heptathlon at the MPSF Championships (4,420)
- Made collegiate debut at the UW Invitational, competing in the 60 hurdles and high jump
- Moved to No. 9 on Stanford's all-time list in the high jump
- Moved to No. 4 on Stanford's all-time list in the heptathlon
Prior to Stanford
- Two-time Wisconsin Division I outdoor high jump champion
- Owns Big 8 Conference titles in the high jump and triple jump
- Fifth in the high jump at the 2016 New Balance Outdoor Nationals with best of 6-10 ¼ (2.08m)
- It was a 6-inch improvement from his sophomore season
- Scored 5,639 in the decathlon while placing second at the 2016 USATF Region 8 meet
- Competed on the Verona High football and robotics teams
Personal
- Parents are Scott and Lori Herkert
- Mother, the former Lori Pieper, was a gymnast for NCAA Division III champion Gustavus Adolphus
- Has three brothers, Shane, Max, and Sam
- Max is a decathlete at University of Wisconsin
- Shane played lacrosse at Monmouth (Ill.) College
- Special Olympics volunteer
Career Results
| Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
| 2021 | Outdoors (4) | 110 H | 14.71 | 11 (14.72) | -- | -- |
| 400 H | 59.31 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (1) | 60 H | 8.29 | -- | -- | -- | |
| LJ | 22-7 3/4 (6.90) | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2020 | Outdoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 2019 | Outdoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 2018 | Outdoors (6) | Decathlon | 3,606 | 8 (3,606) | -- | -- |
| 100 | 11.46 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 110 H | 14.69 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| HJ | 6-6 3/4 (2.00) | 15 (6-4) | -- | -- | ||
| LJ | 22-11 (6.98) | -- | -- | -- | ||
| SP | 35-8 3/4 (10.89) | -- | -- | -- | ||
| DT | 81-2 (24.75) | -- | -- | -- | ||
| JT | 139-9 (42.59) | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (3) | Heptathlon | 4,860 | 7 (4,420) | |||
| 60 H | 8.62 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 60 | 7.35 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1,000 | 3:00.52 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| HJ | 6-8 3/4 (2.05) | -- | -- | -- | ||
| PV | 12-5 1/2 (3.80) | -- | -- | -- | ||
| LJ | 22-1 1/2 (6.74) | -- | -- | -- | ||
| SP | 35-3 1/4 (10.75) | -- | -- | -- |