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TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

  • Pac-12 Men's Field Athlete of the Week (April 28)
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic (2021)
  • Four-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021; winter 2022, 2023; spring 2023)
  • NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient

Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)

  • Pole vault: 17-1 3/4 (5.23m)

As a Senior (2023)
Outdoors

  • Earned his season best in the pole vault of 16-7 1/2 (5.07m) to place seventh at the Pac-12 Championships
  • NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Reached his season best of 16-6 3/4 (5.05m) at the Spokane Invitational
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

As a Junior (2022)
Outdoors

  • Fifth in rainy conditions at the Pac-12 Championships
  • Reached season best of 16-7 1/4 (5.06m) at the Stanford and Payton Jordan invitationals
  • Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Did not compete

As a Sophomore (2021)
Outdoors

  • Pac-12 runner-up in the pole vault
  • Moved to No. 7 on Stanford all-time list in the pole vault
  • Won Oregon Relays with a PB 17-1 3/4 (5.23m)
  • Advanced to NCAA West Prelims
  • Big Meet pole vault winner
  • Pac-12 Men's Field Athlete of the Week (April 28)
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Did not compete

As a Freshman (2020)
Outdoors

  • Season canceled

Indoors

  • No. 5 Stanford frosh all-time (pole vault)
  • Earned season best of 16-9 1/2 (5.12m) to place sixth at MPSF Championships
  • Made collegiate debut at UW Preview, jumping 16-1 1/4 (4.91m)

Prior to Stanford

  • Set personal best of 17-0 (5.18m) at the Littlefield Texas Relays while at Greenhill School
  • Top vaulter in state of Texas in 2019
  • 2019 Southwest Preparatory Conference champion in the pole vault and 100 hurdles
  • Repeat SPC champ in the pole vault
  • Set SPC meet record in the pole vault at 15-8
  • Led football team in tackles all 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018), led the team in receiving yards and touchdowns (2018)
  • Three-time All-SPC in football

Personal

  • Parents are William Herrscher and Lonna Webster
  • Siblings are Kyle Webster, Katie Webster, Will Herrscher, Jake Webster, Brooke Webster, John Herrscher, Hannah Herrscher
  • Anticipates majoring in aeronautics
  • Interested in a career as an aerospace engineer
  • Grandfather, Rick Herrscher, played for the New York Mets in 1962
  • Father was a shortstop at Baylor
  • Brother, Will Herrscher, set the school indoor pole vault record at Alabama and was an All-America

Career Results:

YearSeason (Meets)EventSeason BestConf.RegionNCAA
2023Outdoors (7)PV16-7 1/2 (5.07)7 (16-7 1/2)----
Indoors (5)PV16-6 3/4 (5.05)------
2022Outdoors (7)PV16-7 1/4 (5.06)5 (15-7 1/4)----
Indoors (0)----------
2021Outdoors (6)PV17-1 3/4 (5.23)2 (16-11)30 (16-10 3/4)--
Indoors (0)----------
2020Outdoors (0)----------
Indoors (4)PV16-9 1/2 (5.12)6 (16-9 1/2)----
J_T_Herrscher_Track_Field_KAH_101019_385
2021-22
Pole Vault
Herrscher_J_T
2022-23
Pole Vault