Senior Skyler Magula, ranked sixth in the nation, will look to improve his mark at the Mt. SAC Relays.
Cal Boasts Nine Entries In Elite Events
BERKELEY – Fresh off a jam-packed home meet in which the Golden Bears set “bests” galore, California track & field has a quick turnaround this week as it travels south to Walnut for the prestigious Mt. SAC Relays at Hilmer Lodge Stadium on Wednesday-Saturday.
Cal currently has 12 total event squads ranked in the NCAA’s top 25; of those, five are ranked in the top three (men’s discus, women’s hammer, men’s pole vault, men’s hammer, men’s decathlon).
The men, who came in at No. 21 in the latest national rankings from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA), will field six total members in the Mt. SAC “elite” competitions. The men’s elite decathlon, which will run from Wednesday-Thursday and is set to feature some of the world’s top multi-event athletes (including 2022 Bowerman finalist Ayden Owens-Delerme from Arkansas), has one Cal representative in senior Hakim McMorris; this will be McMorris’ first full multis competition since the NCAA Indoor Championships in March. Friday will begin with junior Garrett MacQuiddy racing in the elite 1500m section; MacQuiddy, who ran a sub-four-minute mile in the indoor season, will then travel to the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa to compete in the same event on Saturday.
After posting the second-farthest throw in collegiate history and taking the world lead in his season opener, star sophomore Mykolas Alekna will appear in Saturday’s elite men’s discus competition alongside teammate Iffy Joyner, who currently stands at 12th in the NCAA. No. 5-ranked Tyler Burns, a sophomore, is slated to take on some of the world’s best pole vaulters – including Akron’s Hunter Garretson, fourth-best in the world this year – while junior Jeff Duensing enters the men’s elite shot put field. Cal’s men will also field four top-25 NCAA athletes in the collegiate sections: senior Skyler Magula (No. 6 pole vault), senior Kegan Schroeter (No. 12 hammer), junior Ivar Moisander (No. 13 hammer) and sophomore Aiden Lippert (No. 22 400m).
Cal’s women will feature three of their own in the elite sections, beginning with junior Claire Yerby in the 1500m on Friday; her current…
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