Cal Breaks 3 More School Records, MacQuiddy Records Third Sub-Four Mile

Junior David Foster (right) won the men’s invitational 60m with a school-record time of 6.54.

T&F2/10/2024 5:44 PM | By: Cal Athletics

Bears’ Standout Season Continues As Lindfors, Foster, Mills Reset Record Book

California track & field closed out its weekend with yet another standout day, posting a veritable cornucopia of impressive times and marks that included three all-time program bests, five podium finishes, 17 total personal records and an additional special milestone.
 
Most the Golden Bears competed at the Don Kirby Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where many of the day’s highlights belonged to the sprints and hurdles squad. Juniors David Foster (6.54) and Makhaila Mills (7.26) re-set their own program records in the 60m invitational races, respectively placing first and second in the final. Senior Chase Williams, meanwhile, finished close behind Foster in the same contest with a third-place time of 6.68 to better his own program No. 2 mark. In the unseeded men’s 60m, junior Christian Trapps posted a time of 6.93 to take third place overall for Cal’s fourth sprints podium finish.
 
An impressive number of the sprinters set additional personal bests. Other Cal men’s 60m runners who improved their old times included senior George Monroe (6.84), senior Mason Mangum (6.88) and freshman Javon Hampton Jr. (6.97); the women had senior Ryan Lacefield (7.55), senior Masina Mayo (7.62), junior Jaymie Ruskovich (7.74) and freshman Mari Testa (7.76). Lacefield followed that up by crushing her PR in the women’s invitational 400m, shaving her time down to 54.98 for the fifth-best in program history. Not to be outdone, junior Isaiah Shaw posted a heat-winning time of 47.13 in the men’s invitational 400m, good for the third-best time on Cal’s top-10 list. Sophomore Jayden Hill also set a personal record in the 400m, taking nearly a second off her best time to finish the race at 56.21. Finally, in the men’s 60m hurdles, freshman Donovan Bradley improved his own program No. 4 time to 7.80 and took fourth place in the final; on the women’s side, sophomore Torre Anderson set her own PR of 8.93.
 
The Bears posted three additional program top-10s in the other events, as well as an outright event win. Senior Caisa-Marie Lindfors made her Cal debut in the women’s shot…