The California track & field team will send most of its members to the Mt. SAC Relays at Walnut's Hilmer Lodge Stadium on Wednesday-Saturday, while four of its distance runners will head to nearby Azusa on Friday-Saturday to race in the Bryan Clay Invitational at Cougar Athletic Stadium.
 
Live results from the Mt. SAC Relays will be available on RecordTiming, starting with the first events of the decathlon and heptathlon Wednesday, while the Bryan Clay Invitational will be streamed on FloTrack and post live results on Finished Results.
 
Last weekend, Cal's men won their fifth straight Big Meet 112-45 - their largest margin of victory since 1992 – while the Bears' women lost 101-57. In total, Cal won 19 events, including sweeps of the men's and women's 100m races, the pole vault, the shot put, the hammer and the javelin competitions. Sophomore Sarah Perkins lowered her program all-time No. 10 3000m steeplechase time to 10:47.79.
 
 
MT. SAC RELAYS (April 15-18 – Walnut, 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 Collegiate – Aidan Orias
200m Collegiate – Aidan Orias, Trevor Rogers, Wazell Wright
400m Collegiate – Arian Naim, Isaiah Shaw*, Ikembuchukwu Udeh (FR)
800m Invitational Elite – Jackson Hein (FR), Lamarr Kirk Jr.
1500m Invitational Elite – Julian Doak, Zac Gibson, Alexander Lodewick, Jack Paradise (FR), Gabriel Rodriguez
110m Hurdles Invitational Elite – Donovan Bradley*
110m Hurdles Collegiate – Antonio Bayon (FR), Matt Gladney
4x100m Relay – California
High Jump Collegiate A – Victor Ezike Jr.
High Jump Collegiate B – Antonio Bayon (FR), Brandon Cheeks II
Pole Vault Invite B Elite – Will Siemens, Parker Terrill*
Pole Vault Collegiate A – Kai Anderson (FR)
Long Jump Invitational Elite – Jason Plumb
Long Jump Collegiate – Luke Buddie, Javon Hampton Jr., Trevor Rogers, Chukwunonso Udeh
Triple Jump Collegiate – Jeremiah Bolaños, Kosi Nwafor
Shot Put Invitational Elite – Nik Iwankiw
Shot Put Collegiate – Matas Mikulėnas (FR), Eliot Traxler (FR)
Discus Collegiate – Nik Iwankiw, Eliot Traxler (FR)
Hammer Invitational Elite – Kai Barham
Hammer Collegiate – Kai Burich, Miles Clark
Decathlon Elite – 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 Invitational Elite – Nairobi Smith*
200m Invitational Elite – Nairobi Smith*
100m Collegiate – Lauren Gilhooly (FR), Fallyn Gowans, Paige Porter, Saqqara Ruffin, Inara Ukawuba, Kaitlyn Williams (FR)
200m Collegiate – Paige Porter, Kaitlyn Williams (FR)
1500m Invitational Elite – Lily Montilla (FR)
10,000m Invitational Elite – Sabine Kim (R-FR)
100m Hurdles Invitational Elite – Saqqara Ruffin*, Mari Testa*, Inara Ukawuba*
100m Hurdles Collegiate – Fallyn Gowans
400m Hurdles Collegiate – Jaya Westby
4x100m Relay Collegiate – California
4x400m Relay Collegiate – California
High Jump Invite B Elite – Zahra Amos
High Jump Collegiate A – Kimiko Hirahara (FR), Grace Reinhardt-Perez
Pole Vault Invitational Elite – Ali Sahaida*
Long Jump Collegiate – Avery Hart (FR), Caitlyn Johnson (FR)
Triple Jump Collegiate – Leah Anderson, Avery Hart (FR)
Shot Put Invitational Elite – Lucija Leko*
Discus Collegiate A – Lucija Leko*
Hammer Invitational Elite – Adrianna Coleman*, Audrey Jacobs*, Valentina Savva*
Hammer Collegiate – Isabella Popejoy, Angie Schykerynec
Javelin Collegiate – Grace Reinhardt-Perez
 
BRYAN CLAY INVITATIONAL (April 17-18 – Azusa, 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
 
1500m – Caden Carney, Rowan FitzGerald, Justin Pretre*
 
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
 
800m – Salma Bejia (FR), Carolina Dawson
 
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Sophomore Valentina Savva was named the ACC Women's Field Athlete of the Week on Tuesday after posting an ACC-leading hammer mark of 68.18m (223-8) for her third consecutive event title. This is the seventh ACC weekly award of any kind won by a Cal athlete this season, with Savva joining teammates Sam Novak (twice), Pietro Camilli, Ali Sahaida, Kai Anderson and Luke Buddie. Savva is the second Cal woman to be named the ACC Women's Field Athlete of the Week this year (Sahaida) and the first in the outdoor season. In her freshman season, she was named the ACC Women's Freshman of the Week four times.
 
IN THE RANKINGS
Six of Cal's four-deep event squads rank in the national top 25, including four in the top 10. The women's hammer squad of Valentina Savva, Audrey Jacobs, Adrianna Coleman and Isabella Popejoy currently leads the nation.
 
SMITH, ASCENDANT
Nairobi Smith has etched her name all over the Cal record books in her breakout sophomore season, with four 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; the next week, she made her collegiate 100m debut with a time of 11.25 at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational, good for a new meet record and the second-fastest time in program history (also behind Abba in 2022).
 
RECORDS, RECORDS, RECORDS
The Bears have reached six different school records, three different freshman records and one meet record so far this season.  On the men's side, new all-time program bests have been set by junior Lamarr Kirk Jr. (1000m - 2:27.97), freshman Jackson Hein (600m - 1:18.83) and redshirt junior Seth Johnson (300m - 34.65), while senior Ali Sahaida (indoor pole vault - 4.56m/14-11.5), junior Mari Testa (60m hurdles - 8.21, Feb. 13) and Nairobi Smith (indoor 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. Smith recorded the first meet record of the Bears' season in her first collegiate 100m race, taking the event title at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational with a time of 11.25 (second-fastest in program history).
 
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 as a collegiate runner, earning 11 combined All-SoCon honors and five conference titles. In addition to Burdorff and Matysik, this year's Bears are also receiving new 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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