Cal to take strong start to Stump Invitational

After a 2018 season that saw a youthful team fail to qualify for nationals, the Bears will begin again with new goals and more experience.
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After a 2018 season that saw a youthful team fail to qualify for nationals, the Bears will begin again with new goals and more experience.
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Cal track and field’s performance at the Last Chance College Elite Meet reflects this never-ending process and the desire to improve. The Bears used the return to Dempsey Indoor last Friday as a stepping stone, launching themselves toward regional and national championships.
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California recruited heavily in track events, particularly in distance and mid-distance. Redshirt-senior Garrett Corcoran will lead a young distance team and will build on his performance in the 1500-meter race at the Pac-12 Championships last year.
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The team may not have qualified for nationals, but this season, Cal cross country has experienced enough growing pains and progress to suggest a stronger outcome next year.
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That said, the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Track and Field and Cross Country Committee also announced good news for the Bears: Graduate student and consistent star of the season Garrett Corcoran secured a spot as an individual.
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The women secured an 11th-place finish out of 12 teams competing. Sophomore Annie Boos and freshman Marea Zlatunich were expected to lead the women’s team, and they delivered.
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Results in this championship competition will provide the Bears with better knowledge about where they stand among some of the highest-ranking teams in the nation and West region.
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Cal’s motivation manifested into favorable signs of progress during the headline competition this weekend: the 2018 Wisconsin Pre-Nationals. Here, the Bears were hoping to forget the specter of the Joe Piane Invitational in September.
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According to the most recent Division I National Coaches’ Poll, the men’s West Region ranking dropped three positions from their previous standing, from ninth to 12th. One month ago, the women’s side was ranked No. 21 in the nation, but they have now completely dropped from the rankings.
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In Friday’s Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational, both the Cal men’s and women’s teams were once again distinctively young; six of the fourteen Bears who competed were freshmen.
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