Junior Year (2023-2024)

Competed in six meets for the Redbirds...NCAA Diving 3M Zone Qualifier for the first time in her career...Set two personal bests at Milwaukee Jan. 26 en route to punching her first-career NCAA Zone Diving Championship ticket on the 3M boards...Posted a mark of 290.18 in 3M, which ranks fourth in the Illinois State top ten list...Also totaled a score of 260.10 in 1M, which was a personal best...MVC Scholar Athlete Team honors for the second straight year. 

Sophomore Year (2022-2023)

Competed in 7 meets for the Redbirds...Season best on 3M to open the year Oct. 8 vs McKendree, finishing second with a score of 250.35...Turned in a season best on 1M Jan. 21 vs Indiana State, scoring 243.90...MVC Scholar Athlete Team selection for the first time in her career. 

Freshman Year (2021-2022)

Appeared in seven meets as a freshman...Season best on 3M Oct. 30 with a score of 231.53 in a double-dual with McKendree and Maryville...Season-best 243.00 on the 1M boards in the season opener vs Evansville.

Background: Graduated in the top 10% of her class… member of the National Honor Society... winner of the California Scholarship Federation… 4-year diving team member… qualified and competed at the Zone F Championships in 2018… two-time team captain… placed at the California Interscholastic Federation two times... placed at the Region 12 Championships in 2018 for 100-meter and 300-meter.

Personal: Born on July 9^th, 2003 in Long Beach, California… daughter of Curt and Yvette Russell… one older sibling, Antonio… cousin, Hannah Russell played soccer at Oklahoma State University… studying Criminology.