SAN FRANCISCO – After posting the nation’s second-best pole vault mark of the season last weekend, California track & field sophomore Tyler Burns has been named the Pac-12 Men’s Field Athlete of the Week, as announced by the conference on Tuesday. Burns leaped 5.55m (18-2.5) at the Aztec Invitational to…
Skyler Magula, one of two returning state medalists in the boys’ pole vault, went off the market in December. The Marina High senior signed with Cal following an official visit to the school last month. Magula, who has trained under his father, Kevin, as part of the Huntington Beach Higher…
At about this time last year, Lauren Martinez just missed qualifying for the NCAA track and field championships. While crying in the pole-vault pit, she vowed to herself that she wouldn’t let it happen again. Martinez returned for her junior season, during which slogged her way into the indoor championship…