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Justin Pretre (left) and Garrett MacQuiddy (right) posted the fourth- and fifth-best times in Cal’s indoor 3000m history.
Goode, Shaheed Set School Records As Cal Adds 5 Top-10 Marks
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. and SEATTLE – The California track & field team continued its historic season Friday, posting five new program top-10 entries (including two school records) to get off to a roaring start at the New Mexico Team Open and the UW Invitational.
Junior Johnny Goode turned heads once more at the Albuquerque Convention Center, breaking his third school record of the year with a second-place time of 21.06 in the unseeded 200m contest to surpass teammate Gavin Schurr’s previous program best by .15 seconds. Two other male Golden Bear sprinters – freshman Jakobi Smith and sophomore Arian Naim – recorded personal bests, as Smith finished the 200m in 22.36 and Naim posted career-low times in both the 200m (22.66) and the 400m (48.99).
The women’s sprinters were led by senior Aysha Shaheed, who crushed her own school record in the 200m by 0.28 seconds to cross the finish line in 23.49. Two female freshmen (Paige Porter and Nairobi Smith) also set significant personal bests, with Porter improving her 200m time by .27 seconds to 25.03 and Smith shaving over two seconds off her 400m time to 57.07. Junior Jayden Hill equaled her own career best in the latter competition, taking second place with a time of 56.21.
Sophomore Angie Schykerynec highlighted the field events by rising to No. 10 on Cal’s all-time women’s weight throw list, recording a massive PR of 18.72m that surpassed her previous best mark by over two-and-a-half feet. Classmate Victor Ezike Jr. set a new PR in the high jump, clearing the bar at 2.02m (6-7.5), as redshirt sophomore Will Siemens surpassed his own highest bar in the pole vault with a clearance of 4.93m (16-2) to take second place in the B Section and mark his fourth-consecutive PR this season.
Up in Seattle, sophomore Justin Pretre competed indoors for the first time in his collegiate career and immediately made his presence known, taking third place in the 3000m with the fourth-fastest time in program history (7:53.44) and the fastest by any Cal man since 2017. In the same race, redshirt senior Garrett…
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