Leland McPhie, the retired San Diego County sheriff’s captain who turned 100 a week ago, set no world age-group records over the weekend at the masters national championships.
But by winning three events — the weight throw, superweight throw and shot put — he helped his SoCal Track Club team to the club title at the USA Track & Field Indoor Championships at Roxbury Community College in Boston.
“I haven’t been training too much,” McPhie told the Boston Herald before the meet. “I’m hoping to do four events. Two of them I haven’t done before, but my coach (Mark Cleary) wants me to do it. I’ll be the only one in my age group and I can get points for the club. I’m a team player.”
SoCal paced the standings after the three-day meet ending Sunday. It scored 524 points, well ahead of runner-up Mass Velocity’s 386 and Potomac Valley Track Club’s 300.
In seventh was the Southern California Striders, whose Rita Hanscom, 59, another San Diegan, contributed at least four golds — in the high jump, pole vault, long jump and 60-meter hurdles.
McPhie holds world age-group records in the high jump, but he failed to become the first centenarian to clear a height in that event. On Saturday — amid the clicking of cameras — he missed three times at the opening bar set at a fraction over 2 feet.
However, he won the 12-pound weight throw with a toss of 2.77 meters (9-feet-1), the 35-pound superweight throw at 1.35 meters (4-5) and the 8.8-pound shot put at 3.19 meters (10-5 1/2).
