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Assistant Coach 5th Year
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Arizona State
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Cynthia Castro, formerly Atencio, begins her fifth year on Oregon State's coaching staff after a collegiate running career that saw her earn a NCAA Championships appearance and Pacific-10 Conference All-Academic honors while at Arizona State between 1999 and 2003. Castro completed her masters degree in Public Health at OSU in 2007.
"Cynthia has moved into being our top assistant," Oregon State head coach Kelly Sullivan said. "I'm really excited about the familiarity that the student-athletes have with her in the program."
Castro's career at ASU was hampered by injuries, but as a redshirt-freshman she placed 46th in the NCAA Cross Country Championships, helping the Sun Devils to a sixth-place team finish (the second-highest placing ever in school history at that time). Castro graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and Spanish from Arizona State. While at ASU, she conducted several research projects pertaining to minority health disparities. Before arriving to OSU, Castro served as a research study coordinator at the University of Washington and was a health services intern for the U.S. DHSS Office on Women's Health Region X.
Castro lettered in both track and soccer at Richland High in Richland, Wash., placing in the state's top five in the 3,200 and 1,600-meters a total of seven times. Castro holds school records in the 1,600 and 3,200-meters at Richland High. She captained Richland to a state soccer title in 1999, competed in Premier League 1 Soccer, and was on the Washington state Olympic Development team for four years.
She is married to David Castro and has one child: Olivia, (1). David is a doctoral candidate in OSU's Toxicology Program. Cynthia comes from a close family consisting of one sister, four brothers and her parents, Eutimio and Oksu Atencio. Castro enjoys traveling, soccer, cooking and the outdoors.
