2025 Cross Country Roster

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Justin Pretre

  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Woodside, Calif.
  • Last School(s) Menlo School

Biography

CAREER BESTS:
8k (XC):
23:54.3
10k (XC): 31:21.2
800m (Out): 1:50.69
1500m: 3:42.72
Mile (In): 3:59.34
3000m (Out): 8:17.56
3000m (In): 7:53.44

CAREER HONORS
  • 2024 Canadian U20 1500m Champion
  • Ranks No. 4 in program indoor mile, indoor 3000m and DMR history
  • Ranks No. 8 in program 1500m history
  • 2025 CSC Academic All-District
  • 2025 USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • 3x All-ACC Academic
  • 1x ACC Academic Honor Roll
  • 2025 Golden Bear Award Winner

CROSS COUNTRY
2024: Ran in four meets for Cal... posted a time of 31:21.2 in the 10k race at the NCAA West Regionals... set a new PR at the ACC Championships with an 8k time of 23:54.3... All-ACC Academic.

2023: Competed in all five meets for the Bears... finished the 8k race in 24:09.7 at the Pac-12 Championships... set a personal record in the 8k at the Bronco Invite, finishing in 23:59.9 to take 16th place overall... made his Cal debut at the season opener, taking 17th place overall at the USF Invite, good for the Bears' third scoring position.

TRACK & FIELD
2025 (Outdoor):
Competed in eight meets for the Bears… finished the 1500m in 3:45.61 at the ACC Outdoor Championships… ran the 1500m in 3:45.14 at the Payton Jordan Invitational… posted the eighth-fastest 1500m time in program history (3:42.72) at the Bryan Clay Invitational… recorded an 800m time of 1:50.69 at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational… opened his outdoor season with a time of 1:51.18 in the 800m at the Hornet Invitational… CSC Academic All-District… USTFCCCA All-Academic… All-ACC Academic... ACC Academic Honor Roll.

2025 (Indoor): Raced in three meets for Cal… broke the four-minute mile barrier for the first time at the Husky Classic, posting a time of 3:59.34 that ranks fourth in program history… also ran the first leg of the fourth-fastest DMR in program history (9:32.81) at that meet… at the UW Invitational, ran the 3000m in 7:53.44 for the fourth-fastest time in program history... Indoor All-ACC Academic.

2024: Competed at the World Athletics U20 Championships, posting a 1500m time of 3:46.66... Canadian U20 1500m Champion (3:53.89)… raced in seven outdoor meets during the NCAA outdoor season… scored for Cal in the 1500m at the Pac-12 Championships with a time of 3:56.73 after running 3:48.86 in the prelims, also running the 800m in 1:52.86… posted a 1500m PR of 3:44.29 at the 129th Big Meet… placed third in the 1500m at the Bryan Clay Invitational with a 1500m time of 3:48.90… ran the 800m in 1:52.86 and the 3000m in 8:19.33 at the Hornet Invitational...Took eighth in the qualifying round of the 1500m in the World U20 Athletics Championships for Team Canada. 

HIGH SCHOOL: 2023 MileSplitCA Senior Boys All-State Second Team… ran the anchor leg of a 4x1600m relay that was second-fastest in the nation in 2023… WBAL Track & Field MVP in 2021, 2022 and 2023... runner-up in the 4x800m (anchor leg) at the 2023 California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Championships… also ran the first leg of the CIF-Central Coast Section (CCS) 4x800m title squad that year… helped set an Oregon Relays 4x800m record in 2023... he also competed in the 800m and 1600m at that meet after winning West Bay Athletic League (WBAL) titles in all three events… 2023 California Winter Championships 1500m champion… CIF-CCS Junior of the Year in 2022... ran the anchor leg of the 2022 USA Track & Field (USATF) National Junior Olympic champion 4x800m squad… qualified for the CCS Finals in the 1600m, 3200m and 1600m that year… won the 1600m and finished runner-up in the 800m, 3200m and 4x400m races at that year’s WBAL Championships… won titles in both the 1500m and distance medley relay at the 2022 California Winter Championships… 2021 and 2022 WBAL Cross Country MVP...was the 2022 CIF State Cross Country runner-up and helped … in 2021, reached the CCS Finals in the 800m after earning runner-up honors in the 1600m and third place in both the 3200m and 4x400m at the WBAL Championships.

PERSONAL: Majoring in history... son of Tina Lount, who is a Harvard track & field and cross country alum, and Steve Pretre... sister Kyra was on the Yale and Texas cross country and track & field teams... brother Landon has committed to Wake Forest for cross country and track & field.

Historical Player Information

  • 2023Freshman

  • 2024Sophomore

  • 2025Junior