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Big West Teams Ready for 2026 Outdoor Track & Field Season

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The 2026 outdoor track & field season is here!

Home Meet Madness

Big West teams are hosting a combined 17 meets this season:

Date(s)	Meet Name	Host School
March 5-6	Sam Adams Combined Events	UC Santa Barbara
March 6-7	Gaucho Relays	UC Santa Barbara
March 6-7	Beach Opener	Long Beach State
March 12-13	Ben Brown Invitational	Cal State Fullerton
March 20-21	Aggie Open	UC Davis
March 21	Mark Conover Classic	Cal Poly
March 21	UC Riverside Spring Classic	UC Riverside
March 27-28	Vince O’Boyle Track & Field Classic	UC Irvine
April 3-4	Triton Invitational	UC San Diego
April 10	Challenge Cup	Cal State Fullerton
April 16	Pacific Coast Invitational	Long Beach State
April 17-18	Beach Invitational	Long Beach State
April 24	Causeway Classic	UC Davis
April 24-25	Chris Rinne Invitational	UC Riverside
April 24-25	UC Santa Barbara Invitational	UC Santa Barbara
May 1-2	Steve Scott Invitational	UC Irvine
May 8	Titan Tune-Up	Cal State Fullerton

Full schedule

2025 Rewind
The Cal Poly men and UC Irvine women claimed the team titles at the 2025 Big West Track & Field Championships. It was the Mustangs' second consecutive men's team title, while it was the first-ever crown for the Anteater women. The Cal Poly men captured the team title with 186 points, Cal State Fullerton was second with 167 points and Long Beach State was third with 127. In the women's team competition, the UC Irvine women won the team title with 150.5 points, just 1.5 ahead of second-place Cal Poly (149). Long Beach State was third with 109.5 points.

Cal Poly’s Aidan McCarthy was tabbed as the Men’s Track Athlete of the Meet. McCarthy won double gold in the 800m and 1500m mid-distance events to score 20 points for the championship-winning Mustangs. UC Santa Barbara’s Brad Thomas was selected as the Men’s Field Athlete of the Meet. The highlight for Thomas came during multis week, breaking the overall conference and meet record in the decathlon with 8,108 points. UC Irvine’s Jazzmine Davis was chosen as the Women’s Track Athlete of the Meet. Davis scored a total of 22.75 points for the championship-claiming Anteaters, winning the 400m hurdles (58.14) and placing third in the 100m hurdles (13.42), and helped the 4x100m relay (44.87) and 4x400m relay (3:43.70) to second and sixth place finishes, respectively. The senior also placed fifth in the heptathlon. Long Beach State’s Claudine Raud-Gumiel and Lilian Turban of Hawai’i tied in the voting and shared the Women’s Co-Field Athlete of the Meet honor. Raud-Gumiel won the heptathlon and also placed second in the 100m hurdles (13.34) and tied for fourth in the high jump (1.68m/5’6”) for 21.5 points. Turban won both the high jump (1.81m/5’11.25”) and javelin (46.53m/152’8) competitions, and placed eighth in the shot put (14.41m/47’3.5”) to score 21 points for the Rainbow Wahine.

The Big West had 12 qualifiers to the 2025 NCAA Track & Field Championships and earned nine spots on the All-America teams. Cal Poly’s Rory Devaney, UC Santa Barbara’s Brad Thomas and Cal Poly’s Aidan McCarthy earned All-America First Team honors. Devaney placed fifth in the men’s hammer throw with a personal-best and school-record mark of 74.16m/243’4”. Thomas was the runner-up in the decathlon with a total of 7,888 points. McCarthy took fifth in the 800m with a time of 1:46.88. Cal Poly’s Travis Martin, Cal State Fullerton’s Joshua Hornsby, Long Beach State’s Tristyn Flores, UC Irvine’s Zharia Taylor, UC Irvine’s Liam Miksic and Long Beach State’s Ryan Gregory earned All-America Second Team accolades. Martin placed 10th in the hammer throw with a toss of 68.31m/224’1”. Hornsby ran 13.53 in the 110m hurdles for 14th place. Flores took 14th in the 100m with a time of 10.19. Gregory compiled 7634 points in the decathlon for 14th place. Taylor cleared 1.79m/5’10.5” to earn 16th place. Miksic came in 12th place in the javelin with a throw of 70.13m/230’1”.

Five schools were represented in the Big West end-of-season awards. Cal Poly took two awards with Aidan McCarthy the Track Athlete of the Year and Ryan Vanhoy as the Coach of the Year. UC Santa Barbara's Brad Thomas was the Field Athlete of the Year and UC Irvine’s Angel Cordero the Freshman of the Year. Long Beach State claimed two awards on the women’s side with Rahni Turner and Claudine Raud-Gumiel earning the Track Athlete of the Year and Field Athlete of the Year awards, respectively. Freshman of the Year went to Cal State Bakersfield’s Makiah Parker and Coach of the Year to Jeff Perkins of UC Irvine.