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UC San Diego

2021 Women's Volleyball Roster

9 Trinity Castaneda

  • Position Opposite
  • Height 6-1
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Indio, Calif.
  • High School Shadow Hills HS
  • Last College Hawai‘i
  • Major Economics

Biography

AS A SENIOR IN 2021
Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll With Honors ... Big West Fall All-Academic Team ... Played in 30 of 31 matches with 22 starts ... Second on the team with 265 points and 244 kills ... Her 642 attack attempts were the third-most by any Triton ... Matched a career-high with 17 kills vs. CSU Bakersfield (11/26) ... Hi .433 (17-4-30) in that match ... Posted a double-digit kill total on 13 occasions ... Twice had five digs, which equaled her career-high ... Finished her Triton career with 1,254 attack attempts, 518 points, and 475 kills.

AS A JUNIOR IN 2020
Season canceled due to the pandemic.

AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2019
All-CCAA First Team ... CCAA Newcomer of the Year, UC San Diego's first since the inception of the award in 2006 ... CCAA All-Academic ... CCAA Player of the Week (11/12) ... Played in all 27 matches and 93 of 97 sets with 24 starts ... Second on team in kills (231), kills/set (2.48), and total attack attempts (612) ... Third on team in points (253), points/set (2.72) ... Fourth on team in blocks (38.0) ... Made Triton debut on Sept. 6 vs. Concord in Anchorage, Alaska, finishing with two kills and a dig ... Later that day against Regis, set season highs with 17 kills and 18.5 points ... Season-best five blocks vs. San Francisco State (9/21) ... Finished with at least 10 kills 13 times, including 11 straight times to close out her season ... Multiple blocks in 12 matches.

AS A FRESHMAN AT HAWAI'I IN 2018
Appeared in three matches and five sets ... Both of her kills came at Cal State Fullerton ... Rainbow Wahine went 18-9 overall and 14-2 in the Big West ... Team advanced to the NCAA Tournament where it lost in five sets to No. 25 Baylor in the opening round.

CLUB
Played with 951 Elite Volleyball Club (2015-18) and Desert Sports Volleyball Club (2014-15).

HIGH SCHOOL
A 2018 graduate of Shadow Hills in Indio, Calif. ... Four-year letterwinner ... Desert Valley League MVP (2017) ... All-Desert Valley League First Team (2016) ... De Anza League Offensive MVP (2015) ... De Anza League Honorable Mention (2014) ... Knights were back-to-back De Anza League champions in 2014 and 2015 ... Put away a school-record 1,175 kills ... As a senior, hit .403 with 392 kills.

PERSONAL
Born Feb. 22 in Loma Linda, Calif. ... Has three younger sisters ... Majoring in economics from Muir College ... Aspires to attend grad school and pursue a career in economics ... A fan of the LA Dodgers ... Favorite athlete is Kimberly Hill, a member of the U.S. women's national volleyball team ... Listens to Khalid ... Loves açaí bowls ... Instagram is her go-to social media platform.

CAREER HIGHS
Kills 17 multiple times -
Assists 1 multiple times -
Aces 0 - -
Digs 5 multiple times -
Blocks 5 at San Francisco State 9/21/19
Points 18.5 vs. Regis 9/6/19

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Historical Player Information

  • 9

    2019Sophomore

    Outside Hitter
    6'1"
    9
  • 9

    2020Junior

    Outside Hitter
    6'1"
    9
  • 9

    2021Senior

    Opposite
    6'1"
    9

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