The California track & field team will begin its outdoor postseason this week, as the Golden Bears are set to appear at the ACC Outdoor Championships on Thursday-Saturday at Owsley B. Frazier Cardinal Park in Louisville, Kentucky.
 
Thursday's and Friday's events will begin at 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET, while Saturday's competition starts at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET. Separate field and track streams will be available on ACCNX, with live results set to be posted on FlashResults.
 
Host Louisville is nationally ranked on both the men's (No. 11) and women's (No. 20) sides, with the Cardinals' men leading all ACC teams. Duke will enter the meet in the point position for the women with a No. 17 ranking.
 
Last year, the Bears' men finished third at the ACC Outdoor Championships, while their women took sixth place.
 
ACC OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS (May 14-16 – Louisville, Kentucky)
Event Info
Live Streams (ACCNX)
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 – Aidan Orias
200m – Wazell Wright
400m – Isaiah Shaw*
800m – Jackson Hein (FR), Lamarr Kirk Jr.
1500m – Justin Pretre*
110m Hurdles – Donovan Bradley*, Seth Johnson
4x100m Relay – California
4x400m Relay – California
High Jump – Victor Ezike Jr., Brandon Cheeks II, Seth Johnson
Pole Vault – Kai Anderson* (FR), Will Siemens, Parker Terrill
Long Jump – Javon Hampton Jr., Jason Plumb*, Trevor Rogers, Chukwunonso Udeh
Triple Jump – Jeremiah Bolaños
Shot Put – Nik Iwankiw, Matas Mikulėnas (FR)
Discus – Nik Iwankiw, Eliot Traxler (FR)
Hammer – Kai Barham, Miles Clark (R-FR), Kai Burich
Javelin – Seth Johnson
Decathlon – Luke Buddie
                                                                                                                                       
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 – Nairobi Smith*, Kaitlyn Williams (FR)
200m – Nairobi Smith*
800m – Salma Bejia (FR)
5000m – Addie Johnson*, Sophie Tau*
10,000m – Sabine Kim* (R-FR)
100m Hurdles – Saqqara Ruffin*, Inara Ukawuba*
3000m Steeplechase – Georgia McCorkle*
4x100m Relay - California
High Jump – Zahra Amos, Grace Reinhardt-Perez
Pole Vault – Ali Sahaida*
Long Jump – Avery Hart (FR), Caitlyn Johnson (FR)
Triple Jump – Leah Anderson, Avery Hart (FR)
Shot Put – Lucija Leko*
Discus – Lucija Leko*
Hammer – Adrianna Coleman*, Audrey Jacobs*, Isabella Popejoy, Valentina Savva*
 
OUTDOOR MEDALISTS RETURN
Cal fields a trio of returning silver medalists from the 2025 ACC Outdoor Championships. Trevor Rogers, a three-time All-ACC long jumper, is the Bears' lone male representative of the group, while conference-leading hammer thrower Valentina Savva and shot put school record-holder Lucija Leko carry the flag for the women.
 
ALL-ACC HONOREES
Eleven Bears placed among the top six in their respective events at the 2026 ACC Indoor Championships to reach all-conference status, with most looking to repeat at the ACC Outdoor Championships. Mari Testa (60m hurdles), Nairobi Smith (200m) and Ali Sahaida (pole vault) earned first-team recognition for the women, with Testa placing second and Smith and Sahaida both taking third in their respective events while the first two also set new program records. Nik Iwankiw claimed first-team honors for Cal's men in the shot put with a third-place finish and the No. 10 mark in program history. Cal's presence on the All-ACC Second Team included two pole vaulters (Kai Anderson and Will Siemens), two long jumpers (Trevor Rogers and Jason Plumb), a triple jumper (Jeremiah Bolaños) a shot putter (Lucija Leko) and a weight thrower (Adrianna Coleman).
 
VAULT QUEEN
Senior Ali Sahaida is the nation's No. 6-ranked women's pole vaulter after crushing the outdoor school record at the Mt. SAC Relays, improving her career high to 4.55m (14-11) and becoming the first woman since 2018 (Lauren Martinez) to concurrently own Cal's indoor and outdoor program standards. Earlier this season, she 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.
 
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).
 
IN THE RANKINGS
Five of Cal's four-deep event squads rank in the national top 25, including two in the top 10. The women's hammer squad of Valentina Savva, Audrey Jacobs, Adrianna Coleman and Isabella Popejoy currently leads the group with a No. 2 ranking.
 
STAY POSTED
For complete coverage of Cal track & field, follow the Bears on X (@CalTFXC), Instagram (@caltfxc) and Facebook (@Cal Cross Country/Track and Field).