Cal To Compete In Mt. SAC Relays
BERKELEY – California track & field will compete as a team once again this week, sending athletes from all five event groups to the prestigious Mt. SAC Relays on April 18-20 at Hilmer Lodge Stadium in Walnut. Both the collegiate and elite divisions are chock-full of Golden Bears; the majority of the collegiate competitions will take place on Friday, while most of the elite events are scheduled for Saturday.
The only Bears set to compete on Thursday are sophomores Georgia McCorkle and Carolina Visca, both at 6:30 p.m. PT. McCorkle, who ranks sixth all time at Cal in the women's 3000m steeplechase, will test her mettle against a field of 27 other elite racers that includes Cal Baptist's Greta Karinauskaite, who is ranked No. 12 in the world this year. Visca, the reigning Italian champion and the school record-holder in the women's javelin, is set to match up against 13 other elite throwers, including countrywoman Federica Botter of UCLA, who is currently ranked fourth in Division I.
Friday will be the busiest day of the meet for Cal, with no fewer than 44 athletes competing across the various collegiate competitions. Nine entries currently hold spots on the Bears' all-time top-10 lists; the first of those to appear that day will be the men's 4x100m relay, which ranks second in program history, at 11:10 a.m. Other Friday entrants in Cal's top-10 include junior Asjah Atkinson (100m hurdles – 11:25 a.m.), Ryan Lacefield (400m – 12:15 p.m.), Kylie Hilton (Pole Vault A – 1 p.m.), Ali Sahaida (Pole Vault A – 1 p.m.), Makhaila Mills (100m – 1:15 p.m.), George Monroe (100m – 1:45 p.m.), Chase Williams (100m – 1:45 p.m.) and Aysha Shaheed (200m – 3:05 p.m.)
After the men's and women's collegiate hammer contests kick things off on Saturday, the Bears will follow up with a heavy presence in the remaining elite events, with all but three entries possessing program top-10 spots. Three of those – Amari Turner (Pole Vault – 2:20 p.m.), Caisa-Marie Lindfors (Discus – 3:30 p.m.) and Rowan Hamilton (Hammer – 4 p.m.) boast outdoor school records, while an additional five (pole vaulter Skyler Magula, hurdler Jada Hicks, high jumper Toby Lai, sprinter Aysha Shaheed and sprinter David Foster) own indoor program records. Sophomore Audrey Jacobs, the U23 Dutch record-holder in the hammer throw, and senior Jasmine Blair, who recently qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials in the discus, hope to improve their marks even further in their respective events.
The elite division will feature several additional names familiar to Cal fans, although those athletes will not be donning the Blue & Gold. World record-holder Mykolas Alekna, who is competing unattached while he prepares for the Olympic Games in Paris, is the top-billed name in the men's discus elite, while fellow junior Tyler Burns will compete unattached in the men's pole vault elite B section. Three of Cal's hammer throwing alumni – reigning world champion Camryn Rogers, Anna Purchase and Kegan Schroeter, will throw in the women's (Rogers, Purchase) and men's (Schroeter) hammer elite contests; volunteer assistant coach Elena Bruckner rounds out the group with a scheduled appearance in the women's discus elite.
MT. SAC INVITATIONAL – CALIFORNIA ACCEPTED ENTRIES (All Times PT)
An asterisk (*) indicates the school record-holder in the event.
Names in bold appear on the program top-10 list.
Thursday
6:30 p.m. Women's 3000m Steeplechase Elite – Georgia McCorkle
6:30 p.m. Women's Javelin Elite – Carolina Visca*
Friday
9 a.m. Women's High Jump B – Torre Anderson, Ashanti Elie, Mara Lampsas
10 a.m. Men's Pole Vault C – Will Siemens, Parker Terrill
10 a.m. Women's Pole Vault C – Paige Martin
10 a.m. Men's Discus B – Nick Godbehere, Nik Iwankiw, Justin Wirtz
11 a.m. Men's Long Jump – Luke Buddie, Javon Hampton Jr., Seth Johnson, Riley Knott, Mason Mangum, Jason Plumb, Chukwunonso Udeh
11 a.m. Women's Long Jump – Torre Anderson, Ashanti Elie, Yuki Hamachi
11:10 a.m. Men's 4x100m Relay – California
11:25 a.m. Women's 100m Hurdles – Asjah Atkinson, Yuki Hamachi, Saqqara Ruffin, Mari Testa
11:50 a.m. Men's 110m Hurdles – Seth Johnson
12:15 p.m. Women's 400m – Ryan Lacefield
12:45 p.m. Men's 400m – Josh Keller, Isaiah Shaw
1 p.m. Women's Pole Vault A – Kylie Hilton, Ali Sahaida
1 p.m. Men's Shot Put – Nik Iwankiw
1:15 p.m. Women's 100m – Asjah Atkinson, Masina Mayo, Makhaila Mills, Jaymie Ruskovich, Mari Testa
1:45 p.m. Men's 100m – Javon Hampton Jr., Deon McCauley, George Monroe, Jason Plumb, Christian Trapps, Chase Williams
2:20 p.m. Women's 400m Hurdles – Loreal Wilson
2:45 p.m. Men's 400m Hurdles – Aiden Baker
3 p.m. Men's High Jump C – Riley Knott, Jai Williams
3 p.m. Women's Shot Put – Sara Pettinger
3:05 p.m. Women's 200m – Ryan Lacefield, Masina Mayo, Jaymie Ruskovich, Aysha Shaheed, Zanae Woods
3:30 p.m. Men's 200m – David Foster, Josh Keller, George Monroe, Christian Trapps, Chase Williams
3:55 p.m. Women's 800m – Anastasia Snodgrass
4 p.m. Men's Triple Jump – Jeremiah Bolaños, Obi Nwafor
4 p.m. Women's Triple Jump – Myla Canty
4:15 p.m. Men's 800m – Iyan Godwin
5 p.m. Men's High Jump C – Luke Buddie, Victor Ezike Jr., Seth Johnson
Saturday
9 a.m. Women's Hammer – Adrianna Coleman, Destiny Okoh, Kayla Racine, Angie Schykerynec
12 p.m. Men's Hammer – Michael Gupta
12:15 p.m. Women's 4x100m Elite – California
1 p.m. Men's Pole Vault Elite B – Skyler Magula
1:10 p.m. Women's 100m Hurdles Elite – Jada Hicks, Jazlynn Shearer
1:20 p.m. Men's 110m Hurdles Elite – Donovan Bradley
1:30 p.m. Women's High Jump Elite – Toby Lai
2 p.m. Women's 100m Elite – Aysha Shaheed
2:10 p.m. Men's 100m Elite – David Foster
2:20 p.m. Women's Pole Vault Elite – Amari Turner*
2:30 p.m. Women's Hammer Elite – Audrey Jacobs
2:45 p.m. Men's Shot Put Elite – Jeff Duensing, Nick Godbehere
3:30 p.m. Women's Discus Elite – Jasmine Blair, Caisa-Marie Lindfors*
4 p.m. Men's Hammer Elite – Rowan Hamilton*, Ivar Moisander
4:55 p.m. Men's 4x400m – California
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