Catherine Russo

Class:
Graduate Student
High School:
Butte HS
Hometown:
Butte, MT

2024-25

Season Best – 50 fly: 23.78

An AAC Champion in the 50 free, the 200 free relay and the 400 free relay…Also earned an AAC medal in the 200 medley relay and 200 free…A CSC Academic All-District selection…A 2025 CSCAA Second Team Scholar All-American..Set the school record in the 50 free (22.2)…Placed third all-time in the 100 free at the Magnus Cup – 49.93 (11/23)…Part of school record 200 free relay team (1:30.07)….Part of the second-best 200 free relay team in school history (1:31.58)…Part of the school record 400 free relay team (3:17.66)…Part of second-best 400 free relay team in school history (3:19.10)…Part of third-best 400 free relay team in school history (3:19.33)..Part of school record 200 medley relay team (1:38.24)…Part of third-best 200 medley relay team in school history (1:39.95)…Part of ninth-best 200 medley relay team in school history (1:41.59)…Part of school record 400 medley relay team (3:37.67)…Part of second-best 400 free relay team in school history (3:39.93)…Won the 50 free five times on the season and the 100 fly three times.

Prior to Tulane: Russo arrives at Tulane after spending the past four seasons competing at the Ohio State University. She was a CSCAA (College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America) First Team All-American in the 400 free relay in 2023. Russo was a four-time Ohio State Scholar-Athlete (2021-2024) and a three-time Academic All-Big Ten selection (2022-24). She was a CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team and a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar in 2023. As a senior at OSU, Russo had a NCAA B qualifying time in the 100 fly (52.91). As a junior, she was a member of the Big Ten Champion 400 free relay team. Also, during her junior season, at the NCAA Championships, was a member of the fifth-place 400 free relay team to earn First Team All-America honors. As a sophomore, she placed ninth in the 100 fly at the Big Ten Championships (52.36) and finished 20th overall in both the 100 free (49.55) and the 50 free (22.60). As a freshman, she raced in the 50 free and the 100 fly at the NCAA Championships. Prior to her arrival at Ohio State, Russo was a 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier n the 100 butterfly after winning the event at the USA Swimming Futures Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. In high school at Butte, she was one of the her classes’ valedictorians, a four-time Montana state high school champion in the 50 free, a four-time state champion in the 100 butterfly, holds the state record in the 50 free (22.76) and the 100 fly (54.15) and was the first swimmer – male or female – in Montana school history to win four state titles in two different events.