2018 Track & Field Roster
Roster
Joe Herrera
- Position:
- Sprints
- Height:
- 6-2
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Tulare, Calif.
- High School:
- Tulare Western
2019
In his final season at UCLA, competed at 12 meets … Indoor: Posted a season-best indoor 400m time of 48.21 at the MPSF Indoor Championships, finishing 16th … Placed seventh in the 400m (48.45) at the Columbia Challenge … Outdoor: Helped UCLA’s 4x400m relay team place first in two meets … Reached the finals of the 400m at the Pac-12 Championships, where he finished as the runner-up with a PR of 46.25 to notch eight points for UCLA … Took second at USC with a 400m time of 46.81 … At the NCAA West Regionals, placed 15th in the 400m (46.30) … Competed in the 4x400m at the NCAA Championships at Mike A. Myers Stadium, as the Bruins took 21st (3:10.70).
2018
Qualified for NCAA West Regionals in the 400m ... Finished 22nd at the regionals, finishing in 47.02 ... Seventh-place finisher in the 400m at the Pac-12 Championships, coming in at 47.15 ... Set a collegiate-best and qualified for regionals with a 46.64 in the 400 at the USC Dual Meet, good for third place ... At that same meet, was on the second-place relay teams for both the 4X100 (42.31) and 4X400 (3:24.96) ... Won the 400m at the John Jacobs Invitational with a time of 47:34.
2017
Competed in three outdoor meets for the Bruins … Finished eighth at the Pac-12 Championships in the 400m with a time of 47.76 … Also ran the opening leg of the 4x400m relay for the Bruins at the conference meet, contributing to a season-best time of 3:09.39 and a fourth-place finish … Opened his season at the Long Beach Dual, where he ran the second leg for the 4x400m relay team that took home the victory with a time of 3:12.28 … Ran a lifetime-best time of 46.98 in the 400m at the MPSF Indoor Championships, finishing fifth overall … Finished third in his only appearance in the 600m at the Don Kirby Invite, posting a time of 1:18.59.
2016
Earned USTFCCCA All-American honors on the DMR during the indoor season … Placed seventh at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships on the DMR where he ran the 400m leg with a relay time of 9:34.39 … Won the 400m at the Jim Bush Collegiate Invitational with a time of 48.16, which is also his best performance of the year … Only ran in one outdoor meet during the season due to injury.
2015
A NCAA qualifier in the 400m as a true freshman … Competed in nine outdoor meets … Ran personal bests of 46.84 in the 400m and 21.87 in the 200m … Won the 200m at the CSUN Invitational to open the outdoor season with a 21.87 … Clocked his personal best in the 400m of 46.84 at the dual meet against rival USC … Won the Rafer Johnson/JJK Invitational in the 400m with a time of 47.28 … Also ran on the 4x100m and 4x400m relays … Competed in four indoor meets … Placed fourth at the MPSF Championships in the 400m with an indoor best time of 47.59 … Won his first collegiate meet in the 400m at the Lumberjack Team Invitational with a time of 47.80 … Also ran on the DMR team that finished fourth at the MPSF Championships.
High School
Attended Tulare Western High School in Tulare, Calif. … Lettered all four seasons in track and twice in football … Was coached by Traion Baker and Tony Rodriguez … Was team captain his junior and senior seasons … A three-time all-county and all-league selection … Team MVP as a junior and senior … CIF Central Section 400m champion in 2013 and 2014 … Runner-up in 2012 … Four-time East Yosemite League champion in the 400m … Placed fourth at the CIF State Finals in 2014 with a personal best 47.25 despite battling the flu … Finished eighth in the 400m at the state meet in 2013 … Ran a personal best 21.54 in the 200m to place second at the CIF Central Section Championships.
Personal
Son of Joe and Charlene Herrera … Has a brother named Joshua and a sister named Carly … Admires 400m former World Record holder Michael Johnson … Can play the trumpet ... Majoring in Sociology.
