Soka University

2022-2023 Season
Kasai opened the season competing in the 31^st Annual Vanguard Invitational competing in the 8k and finishing with a time of 33:06.6…following this event was the Cougar Challenge 2022, where he also competed in the 8k and set a time of 29:36.4…also competed in the 8k at the 2022 Pomona-Pitzer XC Invitational, finishing with a time of 29:23.1…at the Jessup Warrior Invitational, Kasai competed in the 8k and set a season best with a time of 27:05.6…to close out the season, he competed in the California Pacific Conference Cross Country Championships 4.97M event and set a time of 27:38.7…also worked on campus as a bookstore cashier.

2021-2022 Season
Kasai completed in 4M event at the SD Mesa XC Invite College Open and set a personal college best record time of 22:13.8…he competed in the Titan Invite 8k and set another personal college best of 26:42.4…also participated in the 2022 Team 4 Titus and Ely Invitational in the 5000 and set a college best of 16:22.64…Naoki closed out the season by competing in the California Pacific Conference Championships and setting two more college bests in the 800 and the 1500 with times of 1:59.57 and 4:09.36.
 
High School
Graduated from West High School…competed at the varsity level for three years for both Cross Country and Track & Field.
 
Personal
Born in Ota, Japan, lived in Tokyo, Japan until the age of 5, then moved to Saipan and lived there until the age of 9 before moving to Guam, and then moved to the Torrance, California at 14…parents Daiki and Mikiko Kasai…two siblings…also considered attending UCSD, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cal Poly Pomona, and CSU Long Beach…studying Chinese at SUA…fluent in Japanese.