Catalina Estrada Carvajal was born on 11 October 1998[1] in San Carlos, and is the sixth of fourteen siblings.

[1] In early 2021, she was one of 28 young players called into development training with the senior squad.

She was pleased at the inclusion of so many players, while expressing that she wanted to be one of those to stay on and break into the national team for the World Cup qualifiers at the end of the year.

[4] Despite having to work other jobs, and saying the team was not wholly professional, Estrada said that it had improved a lot between 2019 and 2021,[2] when she made her senior debut.

[1] She was included in Costa Rica's squad for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.