Lance Castaneda

Height:
6-3
Weight:
215
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Modesto, CA
High School:
Grace M. Davis HS

Expected to start at the Z wide receiver position for the secondstraight year.

2011 -- Cal Poly’s top receiver as aredshirt freshman with 26 catches for 283 yards and one touchdown,a 22-yarder against Eastern Washington ... season-high sevencatches for 72 yards, also a season high, against UC Davis ...caught five passes against North Dakota ... lone touchdown catch ofthe season was the 22-yarder in season finale at South Alabama ...started 10 games and played in all 11 contests ... All-Great Westhonorable mention ... caught one pass in 2012 Spring Game.

2010 -- Redshirt ... caught five-yard touchdownpass from Doug Shumway in 2011 Spring Game.

High School -- A three-year varsity starter,Castaneda earned first-team All-Modesto Metro League andAll-Stanislaus District honors as a senior free safety under headcoach Len Johnston at Grace M. Davis High School in Modesto ...despite missing several games due to a hip flexor injury, caught 20passes for 350 yards and three touchdowns while also recording 65tackles, five interceptions, one sack, two forced fumbles, onefumble recovery en route to first-team All-Modesto Metro Leaguehonors as a safety ... returned one interception for a game-winningtouchdown ... led Spartans to 6-5 mark in 2009, including a 3-2record for third place in the Modesto Metro League, and a berth inthe CIF-Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoffs ... named MVP ofthe Cal Bears Full-Contact Camp as a wide receiver and selected toplay in Lions All-Star Game ... as a junior, caught 30 passes for500 yards and six touchdowns as a wide receiver, including 10catches for 121 yards against Clovis East ... on defense, recorded72 total tackles (13 against Sonora) along with one sack, threeforced fumbles, one fumble recovery, 10 pass breakups and returnedan interception 70 yards for a touchdown against Enoch ... earnedall-league and all-district honors as a junior and was named theleague’s most outstanding receiver and team MVP ... alsoplayed basketball at Davis High, averaging 10.7 points per game asa senior ... earned first-team all-league honors in basketball as asophomore, junior and senior ... selected to play in two all-starbasketball games ... has earned all-league academic honors, is afour-year member of The National Honor Roll Society, a member ofAcademic Block D and received the school’s Academic SpartanAward, maintaining a GPA above 3.5.

Personal -- Son of Leonard and Tracy Castaneda... one brother, Leo, and two sisters, Tiana and Tamia ... claimsto be the best ping pong player on Mustang football team ... bornNovember 2, 1992, in Fremont, Calif. ... majors in kinesiology.