GENEVA, Ohio (May 26, 2022)  – Doctoral student Gina Dello Russo of the Stevens Institute of Technology women's track and field team earned her 13th career All-America honor Thursday after finishing fourth in the long jump at the 2022 NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships. 

Jumping into a slight headwind, Dello Russo reached 5.77 meters on her final attempt, increasing her mark by six-hundredths-of-a-meter, to become the Ducks' first All-American in the long jump. Johns Hopkins' Victoria Kadiri won the long jump national championship with a distance of 6.03 meters, reaching the winning distance on her fourth attempt.

After a three-year hiatus in the long jump, Dello Russo rewrote both the program and the conference record books in 2022. A two-time Empire 8 Conference champion, Dello Russo topped her previous personal best (5.51 meters) five times and her jump of 6.01 meters at the All-Atlantic Region Outdoor Championships set both a conference and program record. 

After posting her historic mark, Dello Russo then matched her own school and Middle Atlantic Conference record in the 200-meter dash, winning her preliminary heat with a time of 23.98 seconds. Dello Russo enters Saturday's championship race as the third seed, behind Nebraska Wesleyan's Isabella Hogue (23.79 seconds) and Carnegie Mellon's Samantha Giordani (23.96 seconds).

Dello Russo will take to the track Saturday afternoon in the 200-meter dash final in search of her 14th All-America accolade, which will be cemented with a top-8 finish.

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