The California track & field team will appear at two Bay Area meets over the next three days, hosting the Brutus Hamilton Invitational at Edwards Stadium on Thursday-Saturday and sending a small contingent to Stanford's Cobb Track & Angell Field on Friday for the Stanford Invitational. Live results for both meets will be available on RecordTiming.
 
Action begins Thursday at home with the first day of the Brutus Hamilton decathlon and heptathlon competitions, which will conclude Friday. Redshirt junior Luke Buddie will be Cal's lone representative in the event, hoping to build off a scoring (and program top-eight) performance in the heptathlon at the ACC Indoor Championships.
 
A handful of the Bears' long jumpers and distance runners will head south to The Farm on Friday, with the former group divided into the meet's invitational (men) and collegiate (women) sections. Senior Georgia McCorkle, who ranks No. 6 in Cal's 3000m steeplechase history, will be making her season debut in that event after opening her outdoor campaign in the 1500m at the Cal Invitational. All of Cal's 1500m runners entered on both the men's and women's sides Friday have set at least one indoor program top-10 time.
 
Saturday's schedule will feature the bulk of Cal's squad, beginning with the men's hammer throw. Cal will have its most entries in the men's and women's 100m at seven Bears apiece, followed by the men's mile (six entries) and the women's hammer, the men's 200m and the women's 200m (five entries each). The Bears will honor their graduating seniors in a short ceremony before the final races of the day (the 4x400m relays).
 
Last weekend at the Bob Larsen Distance Carnival and the Jim Bush Legends Meet in Los Angeles, Cal swept the men's and women's shot put titles for the second week in a row thanks to the efforts of Nik Iwankiw and Lucija Leko. Nairobi Smith stormed to a time of 23.28 in the 200m, fourth fastest in program history, while Cal also picked up wins in the men's long jump (Trevor Rogers), women's triple jump (Avery Hart) and women's hammer (Valentina Savva).
 
BRUTUS HAMILTON INVITATIONAL – MULTIS (April 2-3 – Berkeley, California)
Event Info
Live Results
 
CALIFORNIA ENTRIES (MEN)
Decathlon – Luke Buddie
 
STANFORD INVITATIONAL (April 3 – Stanford, California)
Event Info
Live Results
 
CALIFORNIA ENTRIES (MEN)
Program top-10 holders marked with an asterisk
 
1500m – Caden Carney, Rowan FitzGerald
Long Jump Invitational – Javon Hampton Jr., Jason Plumb*, Trevor Rogers, Chukwunonso Udeh
                                                                                                                                                                            
CALIFORNIA ENTRIES (WOMEN)
Program top-10 holders marked with an asterisk
(FR) or (R-FR) indicates that the athlete is a freshman or redshirt freshman
 
5000m – Addie Johnson, Sabine Kim (R-FR), Sophie Tau
3000m Steeplechase – Georgia McCorkle*
Long Jump Collegiate – Avery Hart (FR), Caitlyn Johnson (FR)
 
BRUTUS HAMILTON INVITATIONAL – SENIOR DAY (April 4 – Berkeley, California)
Event Info
Live Results
 
CALIFORNIA ENTRIES (MEN)
Program top-10 holders marked with an asterisk
(FR) or (R-FR) indicates that the athlete is a freshman or redshirt freshman
 
100m – Javon Hampton Jr., Josh Myers, Aidan Orias, Jason Plumb, Jakobi Smith, Chukwunonso Udeh, Wazell Wright
200m – Trevor Rogers, Isaiah Shaw, Jakobi Smith, Ikembuchukwu Udeh (FR), Wazell Wright
400m – Nathan Lee (FR), Arian Naim, Ikembuchukwu Udeh (FR)
Mile – Bradley Arrey (FR), Julian Doak, Zac Gibson, Alexander Lodewick, Jack Paradise (FR), Gabriel Rodriguez
110m Hurdles – Matt Gladney, Seth Johnson
400m Hurdles – Daniel Chen, Luke Tanguay
4x100m Relay – California
4x400m Relay – California
Pole Vault – Kai Anderson (FR), Seth Johnson, Will Siemens, Parker Terrill*
Long Jump – Antonio Bayon (FR), David Brok, Brandon Cheeks II, Victor Ezike Jr.
Triple Jump – Jeremiah Bolaños, Frankie Cruz Jr., Victor Ezike Jr.
Shot Put – Matas Mikulėnas (FR), Eliot Traxler (FR)
Discus – Nik Iwankiw, Eliot Traxler (FR)
Hammer – Kai Barham, Kai Burich, Miles Clark
Javelin – Antonio Bayon (FR), Seth Johnson
                                                                                                                                                                            
CALIFORNIA ENTRIES (WOMEN)
Program top-10 holders marked with an asterisk
(FR) or (R-FR) indicates that the athlete is a freshman or redshirt freshman
 
100m – Lauren Gilhooly (FR), Fallyn Gowans, Saqqara Ruffin, Nairobi Smith, Inara Ukawuba, Kaitlyn Williams (FR), Tiffany Williams (FR)
200m – Lauren Gilhooly (FR), Paige Porter, Diana Scott (FR), Kaitlyn Williams (FR), Tiffany Williams (FR)
400m – Diana Scott (FR)
800m – Savannah Harris (FR)
Mile – Lily Montilla (FR)
100m Hurdles – Fallyn Gowans, Saqqara Ruffin*, Inara Ukawuba*
400m Hurdles – Jaya Westby
4x100m Relay - California
High Jump – Zahra Amos, Kimiko Hirahara (FR), Grace Reinhardt-Perez
Pole Vault – Anya Patel (FR), Ali Sahaida*
Triple Jump – Leah Anderson
Shot Put – Lucija Leko*
Discus – Lucija Leko*
Hammer – Adrianna Coleman*, Audrey Jacobs*, Isabella Popejoy, Valentina Savva*, Angie Schykerynec
Javelin – Grace Reinhardt-Perez
 
IN MEMORY
On Saturday afternoon, Cal track & field will honor the lives of two of its alumnae (high jumper Hawa Wague and distance runner Cassy Haskell) who passed away this past year. Wague, who graduated from Cal in 2022 after two seasons as a Bear, was a Pac-12 silver medalist in 2022 and helped Cal's women snap a five-year Stanford winning streak with her high jump title at the 2021 Big Meet. Haskell competed for the Bears in Fall 2019 and was Cal's top finisher at the USF Invite, placing fourth to help the squad to the team title in their season opener.
 
THANK YOU, SENIORS
To date, the Bears' 28 graduating seniors have recorded a total of 25 program top-10 marks, including school records in the outdoor shot put (Lucija Leko), javelin (Carolina Visca) and indoor pole vault (Ali Sahaida).  Six members of that group have reached the NCAA Championships in their career, with Sahaida earning First-Team recognition and three (Visca, Audrey Jacobs, Seth Johnson) earning Second-Team nods, while eight of them have earned a combined 12 conference podium finishes in their collegiate careers.
 
SMITH, ASCENDANT
Nairobi Smith has etched her name all over the Cal record books in her breakout sophomore season, with three individual top-10 times to her name so far in 2026. Smith's indoor campaign saw her rise steadily up the Bears all-time 200m list, eventually breaking the program record with a bronze-medal performance of 23.52 at the ACC Indoor Championships to cap off a season in which she also recorded Cal's all-time No. 6 60m entry (7.40). In just her second meet of the outdoor season, Smith made her debut on Cal's outdoor 200m top-10 list with the No. 4 time in team history (23.28), fastest by any Bear since Ezinne Abba in 2022.
 
VAULT QUEEN
Senior Ali Sahaida placed fifth at the 2026 NCAA Indoor Championships in her first time competing on the national stage, holding her own in the highest mark-for-place field ever assembled at the indoor collegiate level with a school-record mark of 4.56m (14-11.5) to earn First-Team All-America status. It was the highest indoor finish by a Cal women's pole vaulter in program history and the second-best finish overall, only behind Katie Morgan's outdoor national title in 2008.
 
RECORDS, RECORDS, RECORDS
The Bears have set six different school records and three different freshman records this season.  On the men's side, new all-time program bests have been established by junior Lamarr Kirk Jr. (1000m - 2:27.97, Jan. 16), freshman Jackson Hein (600m - 1:18.83, Jan. 16) and redshirt junior Seth Johnson (300m - 34.65, Jan. 24), while senior Ali Sahaida (pole vault - 4.49m/14-8.25, Feb. 6), junior Mari Testa (60m hurdles - 8.21, Feb. 13) and Nairobi Smith (200m - 23.47, Feb. 28) have set new program bests for the women. In addition to Hein's 600m rookie record, Sam Novak and Pietro Camilli have also reset a pair of Cal all-time freshman marks multiple times Novak, the first freshman pole vaulter in program history to cross the 17-foot mark indoors, is now tied for third in program history with a best mark of 5.45m (17-10.5), while Camilli has become Cal's first male freshman weight thrower to cross 20 meters with a top result of 20.44m (67-0.75) that ranks No. 2 in school history.
 
HIGH HOPES FOR THE HURDLERS
Five returning Cal hurdlers posted program top-10 times in 2025 and three already have risen further up the list in 2026. In the indoor season, Mari Testa (No. 1), Saqqara Ruffin (No. 5) and Inara Ukawuba (No. 9) each posted program top-10 entries in the women's 60m hurdles; Ukawuba later recorded Cal's No. 9 100m hurdles time in the first meet of the Bears' outdoor campaign.
 
NEW YEAR, NEW STAFF
Cal's full-time coaching staff has two new faces this year in Tyler Burdorff and Nicole Matysik. Burdorff, who leads the throws unit, arrived at Cal from Maryland, where he coached two national-record holders, four USATF Indoor Championships finalists, a European U20 Championships qualifier and two USATF U20 Championships qualifiers as well as two All-Americans. Matysik raced for Furman cross country and track & field, earning 11 combined All-SoCon honors and five conference titles. In addition to Burdorff and Matysik, this year's Bears are also receiving part-time instruction from two-time Olympic hammer thrower Stamatia Scarvelis as well as program alumni Carrick Denker (who won All-West Region honors in the 2024 cross country season) and Riley Knott (a three-time All-ACC jumper).
 
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