Being twins, Makenna and Morgan Herbst are used to sharing things.

But the Carlsbad High School seniors-to-be have gone their separate ways in track and field after both being standout 400-meter runners as freshmen.

Morgan Herbst set a section record in the 300-meter hurdles at the state championships this season, scorching a 41.26-second time to win the gold medal.

She certainly proved that was no fluke at this weekend’s Nike Junior Nationals in Eugene, Ore.

Stepping up to the longer 400-meter hurdles, Morgan Herbst came back from running the U-20 hurdles earlier in the week to win the high school girls long hurdles in 58.22 seconds. She beat runners from Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin.

The time of 58.22 seconds was not only a personal best, it was the No. 4 mark in the nation for high school athletes this season.

In the U-20 event, Morgan Herbst finished sixth in 59.53 seconds, one spot behind ex-Cathedral Catholic High School and current University of Washington freshman Kapiolani Coleman, who was fifth with a time of 59.47.

Meanwhile, Makenna Herbst, who placed third in the state 800 behind the record-setting 2:06.51 time by Poway grad and soon-to-be BYU freshman Tessa Buswell, placed third in the U-20 800 at 2:06.45.

Now comes the technical aspect.

Because she was in a race that included college runners and was competing for Carlsbad’s ProCaliber Track Club and not Carlsbad High School, there is a chance the mark will not be approved for section record purposes. It is still the fastest girls 800 ever for a section runner.

Should the mark hold up, both sisters will be section record-holders. That in itself would be historic: no set of twins have ever set section records in different events. Further, it would mean a record that lasted 38 years — the 2:08.00 by Mt. Carmel’s Lesley Noll in 1985 — has now been broken three times in a little more than a year.

Buswell placed fourth in 2:08.53 as San Diego-area athletes make their mark a year after Del Norte’s girls won the national 4×800 relay.

Speaking of Del Norte, this year’s 4xMile relay team placed second, clocking a time of 21:15.65 behind only Oregon’s Forest Park, which won in 20:45.88.

The Nighthawks’ foursome included Addison Shannon, Eliza Hong, Lilah Enyedi and Emily Russo.

Eastlake’s Jaelyn Williams and San Diego’s Anisa Bowen-Fontenot both collected bronze medals with third place finishes.

Williams, who set the section record of 9:57.11 winning the state 3,200, placed third at that distance, clocking a 10:08.12 — one spot ahead of La Costa Canyon grad and soon-to-be University of Colorado freshman Gioanna Lopizzo’s 10:12.92.

Bowen-Fontenot, like Williams the first California finisher, clocked a time of 13.67 seconds in the 100-meter hurdles after edging close to her section record 13.59 in the semifinals with a 13.62.Michigan-bound Payton Smith sped to a fourth-place finish in the girls 400 at 54.18 and showing the quality of the field, was still the first Californian to cross the line.

Likewise, Madison High School grad Amirah Shaheed, headed to Oregon, was fifth in the 100-meter dash with an 11.75, in front of all the other California sprinters. Shaheed placed fifth in the 200 at 23.82 with Smith two back in seventh at 24.06.

La Jolla’s Chiara Dailey was eighth in the girls’ mile at 4:49.26

Although she was injured most of the season, 2023 state pole vault champion Iliana Downing of La Costa Canyon cleared 13-0 ¾ in the girls pole vault, placing eighth with her season-best performance.