Skip To Main Content

Harvard University

Scoreboard

Skip to Navigation

2016-17 Track and Field

James Heckendorn

  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Eagle, Idaho
  • Highschool Eagle

Biography

Collegiate Bests
60m - 7.23 (I)
100m - 11.26 (O)
200m - 21.72 (O)
300m - 34.48 (I)
400m - 47.47 (O)
500m - 1:05.69 (I) 

2016-17
Earned Second Team All-Ivy honors with 4x400m relay team that placed second at Ivy League Outdoor Heps (3:12.13) ... Placed fourth at Ivy League Outdoor Heps in 400m, running a personal best time of 47.47 ... Set school record during indoor season in 4x400m relay, as team finished in 3:10.84 at the IC4A Championships ... Placed fifth at Ivy Indoor Heps in the 400m (48.92) ... Finished third with 4x400m relay team at Ivy Indoor Heps (3:15.28).

2015-16

Ran a career-best time of 22.38 in the outdoor 200 at the annual Havard vs. Yale meet, good for fourth place … Posted a season-best time of 49.70 in the outdoor 400 at the Virginia Challenge.

2013-14
Finished 10th overall in the 400m dash with a time of 49.23 at the Ivy League Outdoor Track & Field Championships … Member of the 4x4 relay squad that took fourth at Heps with a time of 3:13.4 … Ran a season best 22.47 in the 200m dash against Yale.

Before Harvard

Personal Bests:
400 – 47.97

Lettered all four years in track and field and also two years in soccer … Won the SIC All-Academic Award three times … Sprinter of the Year award recipient in 2011 and 2012 … Two-time state champion in the 400 and state/school record holder in the 400 at 47.97 … Also owns state and school record in the 4x400 relay at 3:18.63 … National Honors Society member from 2011-13 … Candidate for 2013 United States Presidential Scholars program … AP scholar with honors … Presidential education award winner in 2013