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2025 Cross Country Roster

Natalie Wright

Kevin Castruita

  • Height 5-4
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Pflugerville, Texas
  • Highschool Hendrickson HS

Biography

2024-2025: Cross country - redshirted. Indoors – competed in 4 meets during the indoor season. Placed 5 th in the Jarvis Scott Invitational 5K and 7 th in the Stan Scott Invitational 3K – both meets held at Texas Tech. He finished out the indoor season by finishing 5 th in the WAC Indoor Championship 5K held at The Podium in Spokane, WA. Outdoors – redshirted.

2023-2024: Cross Country – finished #1 for ACU in all 6 races during the season. Finished 11 th  at the Texas A&M Inv with a new PR time of 24:31 in the 8k and 3 rd  in the ACU Naimadu Classic. Finished 18 th  in the WAC Championships on the Zoe Park course at ACU, garnering All-Conference honors, before finishing 28 th  at the South Central Regional Championships. Indoors – ran in 3 indoor meets for ACU, finishing in 7 th place in the 3K at the Robert Platt Invitational at the University of Houston in a new PR time of 8:25.69; placed 6 th in the Charlie Thomas Invitational 5K in College Station in a new indoor PR time of 14:34.90; and finishing the indoor season placing 10 th in the 5K and 17 th in the 3K at the WAC Championship. Outdoors – ran in 5 outdoor meets. Started the season by winning the 5K at the Wes Kittley Invitational in Elmer Gray Stadium. Two weeks later, Kevin finished 2 nd in the Texas Relays 10K in a new PR time of 30:12.96; followed by a 3 rd place finish in the Michael Johnson Invitational 5K in a new PR time of 14:24.00’ and finished the season by placing 5 th in the WAC Championship 10K, as well as an 11 th place finish in the 5K.

2022-2023: Cross Country – finished 32 nd  at the Big Country XC Festival in Abilene and followed that with an 18 th  place finish at the Lumberjack Collegiate Invitational. Finished 69 th  at the WAC XC meet with a time of 25:31, an improvement of over a minute from what he ran in the WAC championship in 2021. Also, finished 78 th  in the South Central Region Championship. Indoors - competed in the WAC Indoor Championship, getting 13 th  in the 5k and 29 th  in the 3K (8:47.84), a new indoor PR for the 3K. Outdoors - placed 4 th  in Baylor’s Michael Johnson Inv 5k with a new PR time of 14:44.07. Finished the outdoor season by placing 4 th  in the WAC Outdoor Championship in Nacogdoches in his first competitive 10k on the track – a 31:48.79, as well as placing 13 th in the 5K.

Before ACU: Competed during the 2021-2022 season for Chicago State in their final year in the WAC....finished 82nd in the WAC XC championship that fall; ran on the 9th place distance medley relay at the WAC indoor championship, and placed 12th at the Carl Knight Invitational in the 1500, but did not compete at the WAC outdoor championships that spring. While at Pflugerville Hendrickson HS, Kevin
placed 45th in the 5A XC meet in the fall of his senior year and later in the spring, at the District 18-5A meet, placed 2nd in the 800 and 4th in the 1600.

Personal: Graduated from Pflugerville Hendrickson HS in 2021....mother is Cynthia Castruita. He is a
Kinesiology major

Historical Player Information

  • 2022Sophomore

    5'4"
  • 2023Junior

    5'4"
  • 2024Senior

    5'4"
  • 2025Graduate Student

    5'4"