ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. and SEATTLE – The California track & field team continued its historic season Friday, posting five new program top-10 entries (including two school records) to get off to a roaring start at the New Mexico Team Open and the UW Invitational.
 
Junior Johnny Goode turned heads once more at the Albuquerque Convention Center, breaking his third school record of the year with a second-place time of 21.06 in the unseeded 200m contest to surpass teammate Gavin Schurr's previous program best by .15 seconds. Two other male Golden Bear sprinters – freshman Jakobi Smith and sophomore Arian Naim – recorded personal bests, as Smith finished the 200m in 22.36 and Naim posted career-low times in both the 200m (22.66) and the 400m (48.99).
 
The women's sprinters were led by senior Aysha Shaheed, who crushed her own school record in the 200m by 0.28 seconds to cross the finish line in 23.49. Two female freshmen (Paige Porter and Nairobi Smith) also set significant personal bests, with Porter improving her 200m time by .27 seconds to 25.03 and Smith shaving over two seconds off her 400m time to 57.07. Junior Jayden Hill equaled her own career best in the latter competition, taking second place with a time of 56.21.
 
Sophomore Angie Schykerynec highlighted the field events by rising to No. 10 on Cal's all-time women's weight throw list, recording a massive PR of 18.72m that surpassed her previous best mark by over two-and-a-half feet. Classmate Victor Ezike Jr. set a new PR in the high jump, clearing the bar at 2.02m (6-7.5), as redshirt sophomore Will Siemens surpassed his own highest bar in the pole vault with a clearance of 4.93m (16-2) to take second place in the B Section and mark his fourth-consecutive PR this season.
 
Up in Seattle, sophomore Justin Pretre competed indoors for the first time in his collegiate career and immediately made his presence known, taking third place in the 3000m with the fourth-fastest time in program history (7:53.44) and the fastest by any Cal man since 2017. In the same race, redshirt senior Garrett MacQuiddy finished slightly behind at 7:54.18, the fifth-fastest all-time result by a Cal man, while sophomore Rowan FitzGerald recorded a personal best of 8:21.40. A pair of Cal women also competed at the Dempsey, with sophomore Addie Johnson coming just shy of Cal's top-10 3000m list with a time of 9:30.96 and classmate Sophie Tau taking fourth place in the 5000m at 17:02.09.
 
NEW MEXICO TEAM OPEN – MEN'S RESULTS
200m Unseeded – 4. Johnny Goode 21.06 (PR, School Record); 39. Jakobi Smith 22.36 (PR); 46. Arian Naim 22.66 (PR)
400m B Sections – 19. Arian Naim 48.99 (PR)
High Jump – 5. Victor Ezike Jr. 2.02m/6-7.5 (PR); 8. Brandon Cheeks II 1.98m/6-6; T9. Chukwunonso Udeh 1.87m/6-1.5
Pole Vault Section B – 2. Will Siemens 4.93m/16-2 (PR)
Long Jump – 5. Jason Plumb 7.54m/24-9; 6. Javon Hampton Jr. 7.22m/23-8.25; 8. Chukwunonso Udeh 7.12m/23-4.5; 11. Brandon Cheeks II 6.84m/22-5.25
 
NEW MEXICO TEAM OPEN – WOMEN'S RESULTS
200m Invitational – 6. Aysha Shaheed 23.49 (PR, School Record); 12. Ryan Lacefield 24.38
200m Unseeded – 21. Paige Porter 25.03 (collegiate PR)
400m B Sections – 2. Jayden Hill 56.21 (=PR); 4. Nairobi Smith 57.07 (PR); 8. Loreal Wilson 57.53
High Jump – 6. Ashanti Elie 1.71m/5-7.25 (=PR); T7. Jade Neser 1.66m/5-5.25
Weight Throw – 4. Angie Schykerynec 18.72m/61-5 (PR, No. 10 Cal History)
 
UW INVITATIONAL – MEN'S RESULTS
3000m – 3. Justin Pretre 7:53.44 (PR, No. 4 Cal History); 6. Garrett MacQuiddy 7:54.18 (PR, No. 5 Cal History); 48. Rowan FitzGerald 8:21.40 (PR); 49. Caden Carney 8:21.46
 
UW INVITATIONAL – WOMEN'S RESULTS
3000m – 14. Addie Johnson 9:30.96 (PR)
5000m – 4. Sophie Tau 17:02.09 (PR)
 
 
UP NEXT
Cal will finish up at the UW Invitational and the New Mexico Team Open Saturday.
 
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