The California track & field team heads south this week to compete at a pair of large-scale meets – the Mt. SAC Relays and the Bryan Clay Invitational – after a week of rest. A pair of Golden Bears – Garrett MacQuiddy and Justin Pretre – will be the lone Cal athletes to race at Cougar Stadium in Azusa on Friday, while the majority of the squad will appear from Thursday-Saturday at Hilmer Lodge Stadium in Walnut.
 
MT. SAC RELAYS (April 17-19, Hilmer Lodge Stadium, Walnut, Calif.)
Meet Info/Schedule
Live Results
 
CALIFORNIA ENTRIES (MEN) – MT. SAC RELAYS
Program Top 10 holders marked with an asterisk
100m Collegiate – Wazell Wright
200m Elite – Johnny Goode*
200m Collegiate – Aiden Lippert, Avinash Schwarzkopf, Wazell Wright
400m Elite – Johnny Goode*
400m Collegiate – Aiden Lippert
800m Elite – Garrett MacQuiddy
800m Collegiate – Lamarr Kirk Jr.
1500m Elite – Caden Carney, Rowan FitzGerald
1500m Collegiate – Gabriel Rodriguez
3000m Steeplechase Elite – Antoine Moret
5000m Elite – Sam Franco
110m Hurdles Elite – Donovan Bradley*
110m Hurdles Collegiate – Matt Gladney
400m Hurdles Collegiate – Daniel Chen
High Jump Collegiate A – Brandon Cheeks II, Victor Ezike Jr., Riley Knott
Pole Vault Elite – Tyler Burns*
Pole Vault Elite B – Will Siemens, Parker Terrill*
Long Jump Collegiate – Javon Hampton Jr., Riley Knott, Jason Plumb*, Trevor Rogers, Chukwunonso Udeh
Triple Jump Collegiate – Jeremiah Bolaños, Kosi Nwafor
Shot Put Elite – Nick Godbehere
Shot Put Collegiate – Nik Iwankiw
Discus Collegiate A – Charlie Dang, Jared Freeman, Nick Godbehere, Nik Iwankiw
Hammer Elite – Jared Freeman*
Hammer Collegiate – Kai Barham, Kai Burich
Javelin Collegiate – Charlie Dang*
 
CALIFORNIA ENTRIES (WOMEN) – MT. SAC RELAYS
Program Top 10 holders marked with an asterisk
100m Collegiate – Masina Mayo, Jaymie Ruskovich
200m Collegiate – Masina Mayo, Jaymie Ruskovich, Nairobi Smith
400m Collegiate – Nairobi Smith
800m Collegiate – Carolina Dawson, Jayden Hill, Zoe Lahanas
5000m Elite – Georgia McCorkle, Sarah Perkins
10,000m Elite A – Georgia McCorkle, Sophie Tau, Amelia Wardle-Stacey
100m Hurdles Collegiate – Torre Anderson, Fallyn Gowans, Saqqara Ruffin*, Mari Testa*
100m Hurdles Elite – Asjah Atkinson*
400m Hurdles Elite – Loreal Wilson*
High Jump Collegiate A – Ashanti Elie, Jade Neser
Pole Vault Elite B – Ali Sahaida*
Long Jump Collegiate – Torre Anderson, Asjah Atkinson, Yuki Hamachi
Triple Jump Collegiate – Leah Anderson, Myla Canty*
Shot Put Elite – Lucija Leko*, Caisa-Marie Lindfors*
Shot Put Collegiate – Giavonna Meeks
Discus Elite – Lucija Leko*, Caisa-Marie Lindfors*
Discus Collegiate A – Adrianna Coleman, Amanda Spear
Hammer Elite – Audrey Jacobs*, Giavonna Meeks*, Valentina Savva*
Hammer Collegiate – Adrianna Coleman, Angie Schykerynec, Amanda Spear
 
 
BRYAN CLAY INVITATIONAL (April 18 – Cougar Stadium, Azusa, Calif.)
Meet Info/Schedule
Live Stream (FloTrack)
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CALIFORNIA ENTRIES (MEN) – BRYAN CLAY INVITATIONAL
Program Top 10 holders marked with an asterisk
1500m – Garrett MacQuiddy*, Justin Pretre*
 
 
LAST TIME OUT (BRUTUS HAMILTON INVITATIONAL, MIKE FANELLI TRACK CLASSIC, STANFORD INVITATIONAL – APRIL 3-5)
Mykolas Alekna opened his season with a new ACC discus record of 70.09m (229-11), a mark which he would shatter a week later at the Oklahoma Throws Series World Invitational with his world record of 75.56m (247-10). Freshman hammer thrower Valentina Savva set a new Cyprus U23 record and a new Cal rookie record with her winning throw of 68.73m (225-6) – No. 2 in the NCAA this year and third-best in program history – while Giavonna Meeks posted the fourth-best mark in Cal history at 66.93m (219-7). The Bears posted eight additional program top 10s, thanks to Lucija Leko (shot put, 16.44m/53-11.25 – No. 3), Johnny Goode (400m, 45.82 – No. 4), Garrett MacQuiddy (1500m, 3:40.52 – No. 4), Asjah Atkinson (100m hurdles, 13.25 – No. 4), Jared Freeman (hammer, 66.90m/219-6 – No. 7), Myla Canty (triple jump, 13.13m/43-1 – No. 9), Charlie Dang (javelin, 63.55m/208-6 – No. 10) and Saqqara Ruffin (100m hurdles, 13.75 – No. 10).
 
NATIONAL ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Mykolas Alekna repeated as the USTFCCCA Division I Men's Athlete of the Week on April 14, the sixth such honor of his career, following his historic performance at the Oklahoma Throws Series World Invitational the day before. Alekna has received the award more than any man in history since its inception in 2015 and is the first man to repeat since Anderson Peters (Mississippi State) in 2019.
 
WORLD RECORD RETURNER
Discus thrower Mykolas Alekna is competing for the Bears once again after taking the 2024 season off to prepare for his debut Olympic Games, where he surpassed the previous Olympic record on the way to a silver medal. The 22-year-old phenom stunned the athletics world by breaking track & field's oldest standing men's record last April, posting a throw of 74.35m (243-11) at the Oklahoma Throws World Invitational to surpass a mark that had stood since 1986. He then broke it again in April 2025, becoming the first man in history to surpass the 75-meter barrier with a mark of 75.56m (247-10) that also reset his own collegiate and ACC records.
 
Since enrolling at Berkeley in Fall 2021, Alekna has compiled an eye-popping résumé that has already elevated him into one of the sport's legendary figures. The two-time World medalist, three-time Lithuanian Male Athlete of the Year and two-time semifinalist for The Bowerman set his first collegiate record as a freshman, later becoming the youngest-ever European discus champion and youngest World discus medalist in history at just 19 years of age; that year, he was also named a semifinalist for the AAU James E. Sullivan Award and the USTFCCCA West Region and Pac-12 Men's Field Athlete of the Year. Most recently, he was named the top discus thrower in the world by Track & Field News and recorded his 19th-straight appearance on The Bowerman Watch List, becoming just the fourth man in award history to make a watch list in four different calendar years.
 
LEADERS OF THE ACC
Midway through April, Cal has three athletes sitting atop the ACC rankings in four outdoor standard events. On the men's side, Mykolas Alekna leads the entire world in the discus, while Johnny Goode has the fastest 200m and 400m times in the conference. The women are represented by freshman hammer thrower Valentina Savva, who also ranks No. 2 in the NCAA.
 
BEARS COLLECT FOUR INDOOR ALL-AMERICA HONORS
Cal's quartet of NCAA qualifiers each picked up an All-America nod at the Indoor Championships, marking the highest combined total by the program since 2018. Giavonna Meeks claimed her second-straight First-Team recognition after placing fourth in the weight throw, while David Foster took home his fourth Second-Team honor with a 15th-place finish in the 60m. Tyler Burns (pole vault - 12th) and Seth Johnson (heptathlon - 15th) were each named to the Second Team following their debuts on the NCAA big stage.
 
ALL-ACC HONOREES
Cal's men earned eight All-ACC honors and its women five at the Bears' first-ever ACC Indoor Championships on March 1-3, with the team's four medalists named First-Team All-ACC: Giavonna Meeks was Cal's first champion of the meet, posting a new meet record in the weight throw,  while top sprinter David Foster won his first conference title in the 60m after outpacing the field by .08 seconds. Jason Plumb and Tyler Burns took bronze in the long jump and pole vault, respectively, marking the second time in each of their careers that they have placed third at a conference meet. Men's Second-Team honors went to Johnny Goode (400m), Victor Ezike Jr. (high jump), Riley Knott (high jump), Trevor Rogers (long jump) and Seth Johnson (heptathlon); on the women's side, recognition went to Aysha Shaheed (60m), Asjah Atkinson (60m hurdles), Lucija Leko (shot put) and Valentina Savva (weight throw). Rogers, Shaheed, Atkinson, Leko and Savva also set new program top-10 marks with their performances.
 
THROW LOUD AND PROUD
Cal's throws squad - which has already set six indoor and six outdoor program top-10 marks this season - looks prepped for another elite year, led by returning Olympic discus throwers Mykolas Alekna and Caisa-Marie Lindfors. Hammer thrower Audrey Jacobs owns the Dutch U23 record and earned All-America status as a freshman in 2023, while javelin specialist Carolina Visca set the school record as a rookie and was also named an All-American in 2023. Adrianna Coleman, a sophomore, has also reached the USATF U20 Championships in each of the past two years, taking bronze in the hammer in 2023.
 
The Bears also welcome several top newcomers to the team this year. Cal's throwing transfer class is headlined by Giavonna Meeks, who was an All-American weight thrower at Vanderbilt and reached the U.S. Olympic Trials in the hammer. Other new members of the squad include 2024 World U20 hammer silver medalist Valentina Savva, 2024 European Championships two-way competitor Lucija Leko (discus and shot put) and 2023 European U20 hammer medalist Kai Barham. Meeks (No. 2 weight throw, No. 4 hammer, No. 6 indoor shot put), Savva (No. 3 hammer, No. 4 weight throw) and Leko (No. 3 outdoor shot put, No. 4 discus, No. 5 indoor shot put) have already recorded marks on Cal's all-time top-10 lists.
 
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