2025 USC Track & Field Roster
Roster
Teixeira-Dasilva, Helena

Helena Teixeira-Dasilva
- Position:
- Distances
- Height:
- 5-9
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- High School:
- Newton North
- Hometown:
- Auburndale, Mass.
Bio
THIS YEAR:
Graduate student Helena Teixeira-Dasilva is in her first season as a distance runner on the USC track and field and cross country teams. She graduated from Washington University of St. Louis in 2024.
BEFORE USC:
Teixeira-Dasilva competed in cross country and track and field at Washington University of St. Louis from 2021-24. She posted a career-best 6K cross country time of 22:25.5 in placing 12th at the Dan Huston Invitational on Oct. 1, 2022. She competed at the 2022 and 2023 NCAA Division III Midwest Cross Country Regional and at the 2023 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships. In track and field she has personal bests of 4:33.78 in the 1500m and 5:01.42 in the one-mile races. Her one-mile PR came at the 2024 NCAA Division III Indoor Championships, where she placed 12th in the event.
HIGH SCHOOL:
Teixeira-Dasilva is a 2020 graduate of Newton North High School. She ran an outdoor two-mile best of 11:47 which still ranks 11th on the school’s all-time list. She had an indoor two-mile PR of 11:40.04.
PERSONAL:
Helena was born on August 28, 2002 in Newton, Mass…She is an Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering major at USC.
CAREER BESTS: 1500m - 4:33.78 1-Mie - 5:01.42
Graduate student Helena Teixeira-Dasilva is in her first season as a distance runner on the USC track and field and cross country teams. She graduated from Washington University of St. Louis in 2024.
BEFORE USC:
Teixeira-Dasilva competed in cross country and track and field at Washington University of St. Louis from 2021-24. She posted a career-best 6K cross country time of 22:25.5 in placing 12th at the Dan Huston Invitational on Oct. 1, 2022. She competed at the 2022 and 2023 NCAA Division III Midwest Cross Country Regional and at the 2023 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships. In track and field she has personal bests of 4:33.78 in the 1500m and 5:01.42 in the one-mile races. Her one-mile PR came at the 2024 NCAA Division III Indoor Championships, where she placed 12th in the event.
HIGH SCHOOL:
Teixeira-Dasilva is a 2020 graduate of Newton North High School. She ran an outdoor two-mile best of 11:47 which still ranks 11th on the school’s all-time list. She had an indoor two-mile PR of 11:40.04.
PERSONAL:
Helena was born on August 28, 2002 in Newton, Mass…She is an Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering major at USC.
CAREER BESTS: 1500m - 4:33.78 1-Mie - 5:01.42
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