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2025 Track & Field Roster

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Miles Bennett

  • Position High Jump
  • Height 6-1
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Castro Valley, Calif.
  • High School Castro Valley HS
  • Major Structural Engineering
  • College Marshall

Biography

AS A SENIOR IN 2025
Big West Spring Academic All-Conference Team ... Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll (Highest Honors).

AS A JUNIOR IN 2024
Triton Athletes' Council team representative.

AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2023
Spring Big West All-Academic Team.

AS A FRESHMAN IN 2022
Finished fourth overall in his first collegiate meet with a high jump of 6' 6" at the Rossi Relays (2/26) ... Finished third overall at back to back meets — the Ross & Sharon Irwin Meet (3/19) and the Aztec Invitational (3/26) — with jumps of 6' 6.75" and 6' 7.5" respectively ... Achieved his highest placement of the season, second overall, at the Chris Rinne Twilight (4/22) ... Set a personal best and entered the program record books at ninth all-time, clearing 6' 8.75" to earn third at the Titan Tune-Up (5/6).

HIGH SCHOOL
A 2021 graduate of Castro Valley High School in Castro Valley ... Named Top Male Varsity Jumper, Most Valuable Male in Castro Valley High School Track and earned Coach's Choice Award his senior year ... helped the Trojans to a WACC league title his senior year ... 2021 WACC league champion in triple jump and high jump ... Also named Top Male Varsity Jumper and Most Valuable Male in Castro Valley High School Track as a sophomore ... Finished 13th from a field of 43 at 2019 CIF championships as the only sophomore in the high jump ... USATF Junior Olympic All-American selection in 2019 and 2017 ... Named Top Male Junior Varsity Jumper as a freshman ... Graduated with personal bests of 6' 6" in the high jump and 44' 3" in the triple jump.

PERSONAL
Born April 1 in Oakland ... Parents are Richard and Julia ... A structural engineering major at Marshall College ... Plans to pursue a career in structural engineering after graduation ... Has a younger sister, Natalie ... Most memorable moment competing getting his first win in college by high jumping a personal best of 6'11 ... Enjoys playing basketball and spikeball in his free time ... Roots for the Golden State Warriors ... Favorite athlete is Mutaz Essa Barshim ... Listens to Lil Uzi Vert, Trippie Redd, Polo G, and Pop Smoke ... Most people don't know he learned how to solve a Rubik's Cube in fourth grade ... Favorite movie is Black Panther ... Uses Instagram ... Favorite food is sushi.

Historical Player Information

  • 2022Freshman

    High Jump
    6'1"
  • 2023Sophomore

    High Jump
    6'1"
  • 2024Junior

    High Jump
    6'1"
  • 2025Senior

    High Jump
    6'1"

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