2025 USC Track & Field Roster
Roster
Castillo, Gabriel

Gabriel Castillo
- Position:
- Distances
- Height:
- 5-10
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Pomona, Calif.
- High School:
- Etiwanda High
Bio
THIS YEAR:
Freshman Gabriel Castillo is in his first season as a distance runner on the USC track and field team.
HIGH SCHOOL:
Castillo, from Pomona, Calif., is a 2024 graduate of Etiwanda High where he set 10 school records. The distance runner won the 2024 Baseline League 1600m title with a time of 4:25.83. He has PRs of 4:00 in the 1500m, 4:18 in the one-mile, 9:15 in the two-mile, 14:29 in the three-mile and 15:29 in the 5000m. He was a two-time Baseline MVP and cross country champion. He also won the Baseline 1600m and 3200m titles. He was the 2023 San Bernardino Country three-mile champion and ranked in the top 20 in the state in the 5K and top 30 in the three-mile race. Twice he finished in the top 10 in the California State Cross Country Championships…He excelled academically also, being named a four-time Scholar Athlete, achieving honor roll status all four years, earning a State Seal and was a Cum Laude recipient.
PERSONAL:
Gabriel was born on Sept. 26, 2006 in Pomona, Calif..…His parents are Johana Hernandez and Phillip Castillo and he has one brother, Jacob….His hobbies include watching soccer matches and going to the beach…His favorite foods are anything that his mother makes…Lists his favorite actors as Ryan Reynolds, Xolo Mariduena, Robert Pattison and Ryan Gosling, favorite musical artists as Blink 182 and the Strokes and favorite movies as Godzilla Minus One, The Batman, La La Land and the first Harry Potter…Has done community service work with the Lucerne Valley Museum and Castillo Brothers, a foundation to raise money for kids school supplies and sports equipment…Says his sports hero is Cristiano Ronaldo as he loves his work ethic and mentality and has been an inspiration to motivate him to push his limits and keep working…After school would like to enter the medical field, preferably in the Biomedical field…Castillo is a Biomedical Engineering major at USC.
Freshman Gabriel Castillo is in his first season as a distance runner on the USC track and field team.
HIGH SCHOOL:
Castillo, from Pomona, Calif., is a 2024 graduate of Etiwanda High where he set 10 school records. The distance runner won the 2024 Baseline League 1600m title with a time of 4:25.83. He has PRs of 4:00 in the 1500m, 4:18 in the one-mile, 9:15 in the two-mile, 14:29 in the three-mile and 15:29 in the 5000m. He was a two-time Baseline MVP and cross country champion. He also won the Baseline 1600m and 3200m titles. He was the 2023 San Bernardino Country three-mile champion and ranked in the top 20 in the state in the 5K and top 30 in the three-mile race. Twice he finished in the top 10 in the California State Cross Country Championships…He excelled academically also, being named a four-time Scholar Athlete, achieving honor roll status all four years, earning a State Seal and was a Cum Laude recipient.
PERSONAL:
Gabriel was born on Sept. 26, 2006 in Pomona, Calif..…His parents are Johana Hernandez and Phillip Castillo and he has one brother, Jacob….His hobbies include watching soccer matches and going to the beach…His favorite foods are anything that his mother makes…Lists his favorite actors as Ryan Reynolds, Xolo Mariduena, Robert Pattison and Ryan Gosling, favorite musical artists as Blink 182 and the Strokes and favorite movies as Godzilla Minus One, The Batman, La La Land and the first Harry Potter…Has done community service work with the Lucerne Valley Museum and Castillo Brothers, a foundation to raise money for kids school supplies and sports equipment…Says his sports hero is Cristiano Ronaldo as he loves his work ethic and mentality and has been an inspiration to motivate him to push his limits and keep working…After school would like to enter the medical field, preferably in the Biomedical field…Castillo is a Biomedical Engineering major at USC.
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