Luciano Custodio - TFRRS Profile
School Records: *As of 3/5/2025
4th at CSU/8th in Big South - Indoor 400m - 47.22 - 2025 Big South (3/1)
1st at CSU /3rd in Big South - Indoor 600m - 1:19.35 - 2024 Gamecock Opener (1/13)
4th - Indoor 4x400m Relay - 3:15.89 - 2024 USC Open (2/17)
10th - Indoor 4x400m Relay - 3:17.84 - 2023 Big South Championships (2/24-25)
1st at CSU/3rd in Big South - Indoor DMR - 9:50.36 - 2025 Orange & Purple (1/26)
2nd - Indoor DMR Relay - 9:57.86 - 2023 Big South Championships (2/24-25)
4th - Indoor DMR Relay - 10:01.89 - 2023 South Carolina Invite (2/3-4)
6th - Indoor DMR Relay - 10:04.37 - 2022 Big South Championships (2/24-25)
7th - Indoor DMR Relay - 10:08.57 - 2025 Big South (2/28)
8th - Indoor DMR Relay - 10:09.75Â - 2024 Big South (2/23)
8th - Outdoor 400m - 47.50 - 2023 Big South Championships (5/10-12)
1st at CSU / 7th in Big South - Outdoor 400m Hurdles - 51.26 - 2023 Big South Championships (5/10-12)
8th - Outdoor 4x400m Relay - 3:15.15 - 2024 Big South Championships (5/8)
9th - Outdoor 4x400m Relay - 3:15.68 - 2024 Weems Baskin Invitational (3/23)
10th - Outdoor 4x400m Relay - 3:15.79 - 2023 Big South Championships (5/10-12)
2025 Outdoor at Charleston Southern: Redshirted season ... Did not compete.
2025 Indoor at Charleston Southern: Continued his historic career as a sprinter at Charleston Southern ... Recorded a pair of podium finishes to help set up the Buccaneers second-place finish at the Big South Championships (2/28-3/1) to tie their highest in program history with his performances leading to 18 points for the squad ... Won the 400m with a finals time of 47.22 for a new career-best with it ranking as the fourth-fastest in school history and eighth in conference history ...  Ran on the DMR squad at the meet with them taking second overall with a time of 10:08.57 which ranks as the seventh fastest by a group in school history ... Ran on CSU's top DMR squad at Clemson's Orange & Purple which broke the school record and recorded the second fastest time in league history with their 9:50.36 to win the event at the meet ... Opened the winter with a fifth place finish in the 600m at the Gamecock Opener (1/11) with a time of 1:20.48 ... Ran a career best in the 200m at the Gamecock Challenge (2/1-2) with a time of 22.12 for 15th at the meet ... Recorded top-seven finishes at the Gamecock Challenge and Liberty's Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational (2/14-15) with a 48.26 for sixth and 48.36 for seventh.
2024 Outdoor at Charleston Southern: Returned to the NCAA East Prelims for the second consecutive year ... Took 36th overall in the 400m hurdles with a time of 52.34 in the event ... Ran a season best in the event in the finals of the Big South Championships with a time of 51.75 to repeat as the event champion ... Took 3rd in the 4x400 with a time of 3:15.15 as the second leg of the relay and the time ranks as 8th fastest in school history ... Finished in the top nine in all but one regular season meet in the 400m hurdles ... Won the event at the Charleston Southern Invitational (3/15) to begin the spring season ... Helped record a time of 3:15.68 at the Weems Baskin Invitational in the 4x400m relay for the 9th best in CSU history.
2024 Indoor at Charleston Southern: Part of Big South DMR Champion squad with a time of 10:09.75 which ranks 5th in school history at the Big South Championships (2/23-24) ... Was also part of the 4x400 squad which ran a 3:17.93 for 3rd overall at the meet which was tenths of a second away from taking first in the event and breaking into the event's top ten in school history ... Recorded an indoor personal best time in indoor 400m with a time of 48.47 in the finals of the race which was good for second overall and 6th all-time in school history ... Helped the team to score 24 points at the meet which led the Bucs to a second overall team finish at the meet to tie their best ever placing and record a program record in points scored with 136.5 ... Ran a personal best, school record and #2 time in Big South history in the 600m at the Gamecock Opener (1/13) in a field of over 20 athletes ... Was part of the 4x400m relay squad at the USC Indoor Open (2/17) which had a time of 3:15.89 which ranks as 4th fastest in school history ... Ran a personal best in the 200m with a time of 22.17 at the same meet for 11th overall in the field.Â
2023 Outdoor at Charleston Southern:Â Qualified for the NCAA East Prelims in the 400m hurdles finishing in 40th overall at the meet ... Set the school record in the 400m hurdles during the year with it coming in the finals of the Big South Championships (5/10-12) ... Had a 51.26 to take first overall in the finals, 7th-fastest in Big South history and also had the quickest time in the prelims with a 52.15 ... Also at the championship, he set a personal best in the 400 and moved in 8th all-time at CSU in the event with a 47.50 in the finals to earn 4th overall ... Lastly, he was a member of the 4x400 team that finished in 4th overall in the conference and had their time of 3:15.79 mark the 8th-fastest run by a CSU squad in program history ... Opened the spring with a victory in the 400m hurdles at the Charleston Southern Invitational crossing the line at 53.96 ... Had a second-overall finish at the Meet of Champions (4/15).
2023 Indoor at Charleston Southern: Set a personal best time in the indoor 400 with a time of 48.59 at the Bob Pollock (1/27-28), moving into 6th all-time at Charleston Southern in the event ... Was a member of the both DMR teams that took the top two spots all time in the event during the year ... Was on the Big South Championship (2/24-25) that took the title and crossed the line at 9:57.86, a school record and on the team at the South Carolina Invite (2/3-4) that finished in 10:01.89 that ranks as the second-fastest in program history ... Also at the meet he was on the 4x400 team that ran a 3:17.84 for 4th overall, the 9th-fastest time in the team's history ... Lastly at the meet, advanced to the finals of the 400 and took 8th in the event ... Competed in the 200 for the first time in his collegiate career at the Clemson Invite (1/13-14) and finished with a 22.34.
2022 Outdoor at Charleston Southern: Ran a personal best time of 54.67 in the 400 Hurdles at the Gamecock Invitational ... Ran a personal best time of 49.25 in the 400 at the Raleigh Relays ... Third in the 400 at the Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational with a time of 55.81.
2022 Indoor at Charleston Southern: Part of a DMR team that took fourth at the Big South Indoor Championships with a time of 10:12.57 ... Part of a DMR team that took fourth at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational with a time of 10:21.65.
High School: Was one of the top runners in all of South Africa while he was growing up ... Finished 2nd in the 300m hurdles in the U16 Bloemfontein National Secondary School Championships in 2016 ... In the Paarl South African U20/U18 Championships with a time of 52.22 to the win the meet in the 400 hurdles ... Followed it with a second-place finish in the Boksburg CAA U20/U18 Southern Regional Championships with a time of 51.94 ... Went undefeated in 2019, winning a pair of titles running the 400m hurdles winning the South African U18 Championships and the African U18 Championships with times under 53 seconds in both finals ... Won a trio of races all in the 400 meter hurdles during 2020.
