California track & field returns to action in 2025 with a jam-packed slate of competition and two new championship sites as new members of the ACC. The complete schedule for the upcoming season can be found here.
 
The Golden Bears will begin their indoor season at the Spokane Indoor Challenge in Spokane, Washington, on Jan. 17-18, before heading to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invitational on Jan. 24-25 – the first of three meets in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Cal's first double-meet weekend follows on Jan. 31-Feb. 1, with part of the squad heading to Seattle for the UW Invitational and the rest returning to Albuquerque for the New Mexico Team Open. The team will host an All Comers meet on Feb. 22 before heading to its first ACC Indoor Championships on March 1-3, held this year in Louisville, Kentucky, before concluding the indoor campaign at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Virginia Beach, Virginia (March 14-15).
 
Cal will host three outdoor meets in 2025, beginning with the Cal Season Opener on March 8 and followed by the Brutus Hamilton Invitational (multis April 3-4, other events April 5) and the 130th Big Meet on May 3. The Bears will compete four additional times in the state of California, with appearances at the Hornet Invitational (March 21-22, Sacramento), the Stanford Invitational (April 4, Stanford) and both the Mt. SAC Relays (Walnut) and the Bryan Clay Invitational (Azusa) on April 17-19.
 
The outdoor postseason begins with the ACC Outdoor Championships on May 15-17 (Winston-Salem, North Carolina), followed by the NCAA West Regionals in College Station, Texas on May 28-31 and the NCAA Outdoor Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon (June 11-14).
 
Cal is coming off a 2024 campaign that saw nine total Bears earn 11 school records and 12 All-America honors between the indoor and outdoor seasons combined, including a men's hammer national title from Rowan Hamilton that was the Bears' first in the event since 1922. Three Bears – Hamilton, Skyler Magula (pole) and Jeff Duensing (shot put) won Pac-12 titles, while an additional five earned silver or bronze in their respective events.
 
Two of Cal's returners – both the first athletes in program history to represent their respective nations – competed over the summer in the 2024 Olympic Games: Lithuania's Mykolas Alekna, who broke the men's discus world record last April, earned silver in Paris and will look to claim his first NCAA title this year, while Sweden's Caisa-Marie Lindfors set Cal's discus and indoor shot put records last season. Several other Bears distinguished themselves in elite summer competition, as Justin Pretre appeared at the World U20 Championships after winning the Canadian U20 1500m title, David Foster (100m) and Tyler Burns (pole vault) both reached the semifinals at the U.S. Olympic Trials and Adrianna Coleman (women's hammer) took fourth at the USA Track & Field (USATF) U20 Championships.
 
This year, the Bears will introduce 10 transfers as part of a group of 36 total newcomers, including 12 sprinters and hurdlers, 11 distance runners, five jumpers and eight throwers. Two of Cal's incoming freshman throwers – Croatia's Lucija Leko and Cyprus's Valentina Savva – won national titles over the summer in the shot put and hammer, respectively; Leko also picked up a silver medal in the discus, while Savva advanced to the World U20 Championships and finished second on the global stage.
 
Five men's teams and two women's teams that competed in the ACC last year ended the season ranked among the nation's top-25 teams in either indoor or outdoor track & field, with Florida State's and Miami's men, as well as Notre Dame's women, finishing ranked in both.
 
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