Distance Squad Heads To The Farm For Payton Jordan Invitational

Several distance runners from the California track & field team will make an appearance at Stanford’s Cobb Track and Angell Field on Friday evening, competing in the men’s and women’s 800m and men’s 1500m at the Payton Jordan Invitational to close out the month of April.
 
PAYTON JORDAN INVITATIONAL (April 25, Cobb Track and Angell Field, Stanford, Calif.)
Meet Info/Schedule
Live Results
 
CALIFORNIA ENTRIES (MEN) – PAYTON JORDAN INVITATIONAL
Program Top 10 holders marked with an asterisk
800m – Lamarr Kirk Jr.
1500m – Caden Carney, Rowan FitzGerald, Alexander Lodewick, Justin Pretre*
 
CALIFORNIA ENTRIES (WOMEN) – PAYTON JORDAN INVITATIONAL
800m – Zoe Lahanas
 
 
LAST TIME OUT (MT. SAC RELAYS, BRYAN CLAY INVITATIONAL – APRIL 17-19, 2025)
Garrett MacQuiddy broke the 10-year-old 1500m school record with a time of 3:38.50 at the Bryan Clay Invitational, while Justin Pretre rose to No. 8 in program history with a time of 3:42.72 in the same event. At the Mt. SAC Relays, three shot putters – Lucija Leko (No. 2, 16.54m/54-3.25), Caisa-Marie Lindfors (No. 7, 15.83m/51-22.5) and Giavonna Meeks (No. 10, 15.35m/50-4.5) posted program top-10 marks; Lindfors also won the women’s discus elite section with a throw of 61.44m (207-3). Freshman sensation Valentina Savva broke her own U23 Cypriot record and Cal rookie record with a mark of 69.20m (227-0) that also ranks third in program history, while Charlie Dang raised his Cal No. 10 javelin mark to 64.17m (210-6). On the track, hurdlers Loreal Wilson (400m hurdles, 58.71) and Donovan Bradley (110m hurdles, 13.75) improved their standings on the program all-time lists to No. 5 and No. 9, respectively, while Amelia Wardle-Stacey won the 10,000m with Cal’s No. 9 time in history (34:21.09).
 
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Valentina Savva was named the ACC Women’s Freshman of the Week for the third time on April 22, becoming the first Cal woman since fellow hammer thrower Camryn Rogers in 2022 to earn a conference award three times in the same season. Savva currently sits at No. 4 on the NCAA hammer list, with her PR of 69.20m (227-0) over nine feet ahead of the next-best freshman in the rankings. She is just three inches away from the all-time Cypriot record, which has stood since 2009.
 
WORLD RECORD RETURNER
Discus thrower Mykolas Alekna is competing for the Bears once again after taking the 2024 season off to prepare for his debut Olympic Games, where he surpassed the previous Olympic…