2023 Women's Indoor Track Roster

Cathy Salazar-Gasca

  • Height 5-1
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Foothill Ranch, Calif.
  • Highschool Trabuco Hills HS

Biography

2023 (Senior)
• Ran a season-best 5:05.01 for a 15th-place finish in the mile at the MPSF Championships
• Member of the distance medley relay that came in sixth at the conference meet
• Helped the quartet to the No. 2 time in program history at 11:52.30
• Took seventh in the 800m (2:16.70) at the UNM Team Open
• Earned MPSF All-Academic honors

2022 (Junior)
• Placed ninth overall in the mile at the MPSF Championships
• Crossed the finish line in a personal-record 4:58.82, which ranks third in program history
• Also ran UCI’s third-fastest 800m at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational (2:14.02)
• Member of the distance medley relay team that set a school-record 11:46.87 at the conference championships
• Named to the MPSF All-Academic Team

2021 (Sophomore)
• Season canceled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 (Freshman)
• Competed in the mile at the UW Indoor Preview (5:17.05)

High School
• Member of the track and cross country teams at Trabuco Hills High School
• Had a podium finish in the 1600m at the 2019 South Coast League Finals (3rd)
• Came in eighth at the CIF-Southern Section Division I meet
• Advanced to the CIF-SS Cross Country Finals as a sophomore

Personal
• Majoring in international studies
• Member of the UCI cross country team

TOP INDOOR MARKS AT UCI
800m = 2:14.02 (2022 Don Kirby Elite Invitational)
Mile = 4:58.82 (2022 MPSF Championships)
Distance Medley Relay = 11:46.87 (2022 MPSF Championships)

Historical Player Information

  • 2020Freshman

    Distance
    5'1"
  • 2021Sophomore

    Distance
    5'1"
  • 2022Sophomore

    Distance
    5'1"
  • 2023Senior

    Distance
    5'1"