2022 Track & Field Roster

Alessandro Russo

  • Position Hurdles/Sprints
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Torino, Italy
  • Last School(s) S.A.F.Atletica Piemonte A.S.D./Università di Bologna

Biography

2022 (Outdoor): Did not compete.

2022 (Indoor): Appeared in one meet… posted a 400m dash time of 50.92 at the Pac-12 Invitational.

BEFORE CAL: Placed in the Top 10 two years straight in the Italian Championship 400m hurdles competition, finishing seventh in 2020 and eighth in 2021… was a member of S.A.F.Atletica Piemonte A.S.D. from 2013-20… 2021 winner of Cal’s Overseas Scholarship… 2020-21 honor student and top student in the physics department at Università di Bologna.
 
PERSONAL: Majoring in physics… song of Marco Russo and Ivana Ferrio… mother was a track and field star, earning Italian Championships in the high jump and short hurdles while placing 11th in the heptathlon and Top 15 in the 100m hurdles… father is a cyclist.