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2024-25 Track & Field Roster

Kevin Castruita

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

Biography

2024-2025: Cross country – redshirted this season. Will have one more season of XC in the fall of 2025.

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


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

  • 2023Freshman

    5'4"
  • 2023-24Sophomore

    5'4"
  • 2024-25Junior

    5'4"