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UC San Diego

2025 Triton Cross Country Roster

Meilani Castillo

  • Height 5-7
  • Class Junior
  • Major Psychology/Interdisc. Computing & the Arts
  • Hometown Temecula, Calif.
  • High School Great Oak HS
  • College Seventh

Biography

ACADEMIC AWARDS
  • Big West Fall All-Academic (2025, 2024)
  • Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll, Highest Honors (2024, 2023)
AS A JUNIOR IN 2025
Competed in four meets … Opened the season with a 20:36.3 in the 5k at the Aztec Coastal Classic on Aug. 29 … Recorded a season-best 5k time of 18:49.2 at the UC Riverside Invitational on Sept. 27… Finished in the top 100 at the Texas A&M Invitational on Sept. 13 ... Ran 23:00.3 in the 6k at the Highlander Invitational on Oct. 18, an event the Triton women won ... Named to Big West Fall All-Academic List ... Part of the Triton Athletes' Council.

AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2024
Named to Big West Fall All-Academic List ... Named to Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll, Highest Honors ... Competed in four meets with her best 6k at the 2024 Cougar Challenge, 23:19.3.

AS A FRESHMAN IN 2023
Made collegiate debut at Mark Covert Classic (9/2) ... Competed at Waves Invitational, Highlander Invitational, Cougar Challenge, John Elders Invitational and Gans Creek Classic ... Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll, Highest Honors

HIGH SCHOOL
A 2023 graduate of Great Oak High in Temecula ... Placed 11th in California for the 600m at the CA Winter T&F Championships.
 
PERSONAL
Born February 2 in Los Angeles … Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts and Psychology double major at Seventh College with a minor in Marketing … Her most memorable moments as a runner include placing 11th in the 600m at the California Winter T&F Championships in high school, setting a personal record alongside her college teammates in the 800m and UC San Diego's summer Mammoth altitude training camps … Her favorite UC San Diego memory is the time a pod of 20+ dolphins swam under her while surfing Scripps Pier on a crystal clear day ... Career goals are to either work in sportswear product design with the goal of being a creative director of her own company or going to graduate school to become an SLP to help individuals with speech disorders ... Hobbies are all art mediums ... Favorite athlete is Sydney McLaughlin … Favorite movies are Coraline and Fantastic Mr. Fox ... Listens to Yung Lean and Talking Heads … Favorite food is sushi … Favorite social media is Reddit ... Most people don’t know that she is double joined.

Historical Player Information

  • 2023Freshman

  • 2024Sophomore

  • 2025Junior

    5'7"

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