Cal Track & Field: Sophomores Set a Pair of Women's Indoor School Records

Sprinter Aysha Shaheed and high jumper Toby Lai excel at meet in Albuquerque.

Sprinter Aysha Shaheed and high jumper Toby Lai, sophomores on the Cal track and field team, set school records Friday at the Don Kirby Elite Indoor meet in Albuquerque, N.M.

Shaheed ran 23.77 seconds in the 200 meters to break the Cal indoor record of 23.81 she shared with Antonette Carter, who originally set the mark in 2006. Shaheed, from San Diego, won the 100 and 200 meters at the 2021 California state high school championships.

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Lai, from Hong Kong, cleared 6 foot, 0 3/4 inches (1.85 meters) to eclipse the 14-year-old indoor record of 6-0 set by Inika McPherson, who went on to compete in the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Meanwhile, Olympian Camryn Rogers set a season-best in the women’s weight throw with a heave of 78 feet, 10 1/2 feet (24.04 meters) that topped the field by more than 11 feet.

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Rogers, who placed fifth in the hammer throw at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and earned a silver medal for Canada in the event at the World Championships last summer, missed her school record in the weight throw by 3/4 of an inch. She ranks third among NCAA throwers this season.

Kegan Schroeter, a senior transfer from Brown University, won the men’s weight throw with a mark of 64-7 3/4 (19.70 meters) that puts him at No. 2 all-time at Cal. He is just 2 1/4 inches off the program record of 64-10, set by Rhuben Williams in 1994.

Cal’s Ivar Moisander, a junior from Sweden, placed eighth in the same event with a toss of 64-6 1/2 (19.67 meters) that lands him at fourth in program history.

In the men’s pole vault, senior Skyler Magula placed third and sophomore Tyler Burns was fifth, each scaling 17 feet, 6 1/4 inches (5.34 meters). That lifts them to No. 2 on the Bears’ all-time list, trailing only Brent Burns — Tyler’s father — who vaulted 17-10 1/2 in 1994.

Sophomore Aiden Lippert ran the 400 meters in 47.70 to place third and climb to No. 5 on Cal’s all-time indoor list.

The two-day meet concludes Saturday.

Cover photo of sprinter Aysha Shaheed by Dean Gutierrez

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