Daily Pilot Athlete of the Week

Name: Mike Casillas

Born: Nov. 16, 1984

Hometown: Costa Mesa

Height: 5-foot-10

Weight: 155

Sport: Track and field

Events: 1,600, 3,200, relays

Coach: Charlie Appell

Favorite food: Spaghetti

Favorite movie: “The Matrix”

Best athletic moment: “Winning the senior cross country race at the

Laguna Hills Invitational (last fall), when I was sick and had a fever.”

Athlete of the Week XIII: He won the 1,600 meters, the 3,200 and was

third in the 800 to help the Eagles defeat Corona del Mar in a PCL dual

meet March 28, then ran a personal-best 9:53 at the Trabuco Hills

Invitational March 30.