Husky Classic
Mustangs Look to Continue Impressive Indoor Season at Husky Classic
2/13/2025 8:00:00 PM | Track and Field
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — The Cal Poly track and field team heads back to Seattle for the final time this indoor season to compete in the Husky Classic on Friday and Saturday at Dempsey Indoor.
Action for the Mustangs at the meet gets underway at 2:30 p.m. Friday, with competition on the second and final day Saturday starting at 10 a.m. Fourteen men and 14 women are set to take part in the third indoor meet of the season for the team.
Links to live results, heat sheets and a meet schedule can be found above and on the Cal Poly track & field schedule page. The meet can also be watched live on RunnerSpace+ with the purchase of a subscription.
Last time Cal Poly traveled to Seattle two weeks ago, the Mustangs saw six school records fall and a total of 15 top-five marks in program history get recorded. Across the two-day UW Invitational, redshirt senior Aidan McCarthy (men’s 800-meter), and sophomores Jordan Jackson (women’s 400-meter) and Alexander Franco (men’s 400-meter) broke school records, while graduate student Corban Payne (men’s shot put), and juniors MacGregor TeSelle (men’s 200-meter) and Rory Devaney (men’s weight throw) shattered their own school records.
McCarthy had the most impressive performance for the Mustangs in their last trip to Seattle, obliterating the previous school record in the men’s indoor 800-meter by over six seconds. His blistering time of 1:46.55 surpassed the previous UW Invitational meet record and is currently the eighth-fastest ran in the nation this indoor season, putting him in line to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships on March 14-15 in Virginia Beach. It was McCarthy’s first time running the 800-meter indoors or outdoors since placing seventh in the event at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships. The school record holder in the indoor and outdoor 800 will run the mile at the Husky Classic, an event he also owns the school record in (3:56.09).
Three other Mustangs own top-50 marks recorded in Division I this outdoor season. Devaney currently owns the 26th-best mark recorded in the men’s weight throw this season (71 feet, 4.25 inches) and will look to climb up that list when he competes in the event Friday. Senior Spencer Pickren has the 47th-fastest time in the country in the men’s 3,000-meter (3:57.31) and junior Lexi Evans is No. 44 in Division I in the women’s pole vault (13 feet, 7.75 inches). Evans made her indoor season debut at the UW Invitational two weeks ago, climbing to No. 2 on Cal Poly’s all-time list in the women’s indoor pole vault with an indoor personal best. Evans won the Big West pole vault title last year and is a two-time NCAA West Preliminaries qualifier outdoors.
Following the Husky Classic, a handful of Mustangs will travel to the East Coast to take part in Boston University’s Last Chance Invite on Sunday, March 2.
Cal Poly Entries
Women
60-meter (10 a.m. prelims, 10:45 a.m. final Saturday): Desie Armstrong (Heat 2), Cadence Roy-Williams (Heat 4), Ciella Seals (Heat 1), Ava Simos (Heat 4).
200-meter (3 p.m. Friday): Desie Armstrong (Heat 2), Jordan Jackson (Heat 3), Ciella Seals (Heat 4).
400-meter (10:20 a.m. Saturday): Avery Adelman (Heat 1), Elianah DeMange (Heat 2).
800-meter (12:55 p.m. Saturday): Elianah DeMange (Heat 8).
Mile (10:55 a.m. Saturday): Tatiana Cornejo (unattached, Heat 9).
3,000-meter (3:45 p.m. Friday): Tatiana Cornejo (unattached, Heat 6), Ashlyn Leath (Heat 2).
5,000-meter (5:50 p.m. Friday): Kelli Gaffney (Heat 1), Schuyler Gooley (Heat 1).
60-meter hurdles (2:30 p.m. prelims, 3 p.m. final Friday): Kalia Estes (Heat 5), Ava Simos (Heat 2).
Pole vault (4:30 p.m. Friday): Lexi Evans.
Long jump (Noon Saturday, Flight 2): Desie Armstrong (Flight 2), Cadence Roy-Williams (Flight 2).
Shot put (10 a.m. Saturday): Taylor Hofland (Flight 1).
Weight throw (5 p.m. Friday): Anna Grexton.
Men
60-meter (10:10 a.m. prelims, 10:50 a.m. final Saturday): Noah Bustos (Heat 1), MacGregor TeSelle (Heat 3).
200-meter (3:15 p.m. Friday): Alexander Franco (Heat 2), MacGregor TeSelle (Heat 4).
400-meter (10:35 a.m. Saturday): Wil Brennan (Heat 1), Alexander Franco (Heat 1), Chase Walter (Heat 1).
800-meter (1:30 p.m. Saturday): Jeffrey Overgaard (Heat 5).
Mile (Noon Saturday, Invite 2:05 p.m. Saturday): Taj Clark (Heat 2), Mateo Malko-Allen (Heat 2), Aidan McCarthy (Invite), Spencer Pickren (Heat 8), Carson Smith (Heat 8), Lewis Westwood (Heat 8).
3,000-meter (4:50 p.m. Friday): Spencer Pickren (Heat 5).
Long jump (Noon Saturday, Flight 2): Noah Bustos (Flight 2).
Shot put (10 a.m. Saturday): Corban Payne.
Weight throw (2:30 p.m. Friday): Rory Devaney.
