Frank Russo enters his second season as the Crusaders’ head track & field coach.
Prior to Moeller, Coach Russo was the head track & field/cross country coach at LaSalle HS, from 1983-2018. During that time, Russo led the programs to 28 GCL titles (8 XC; 20 T&F); 28 district titles (10 XC; 18 T&F); 11 regional titles (7 XC; 4 T&F); 6 State runner-up (5 XC; T&F ‘08); (4) State championships (XC ’05,’06; T&F ’94, ’11). Last season, Russo led Edgewood to their first boys SWOC track & field championship and advanced both the boys’ and girls’ programs to the state championship appearance.
From 2018 – 2020, Russo was athletic director at Trotwood Madison High School. During that time the 2019 boys’ basketball and football programs won state championships.
In 2018 Coach Russo was inducted into the Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame and the Greater Cincinnati Running Hall of Fame and is a member of the class of 2009 LaRosa’s Sports Hall of Fame.
Since 2011, Coach Russo has been a member of the nationally recognized Brooks “ID” Coach program.
Russo is a 1979 graduate of Colerain High School, where he led the cross country program to the school’s first State Championship. Upon graduation, Russo was a student-athlete at The Ohio State University, where he competed in both track and cross country. In the fall of 1982 he was named captain of the Buckeyes cross country team.
Russo holds two post-graduate degrees. He received his first master’s degree in educational leadership from Miami University in ’94 and his second master’s degree in sports administration from Xavier University in ’00.
He and his wife, Patty, reside in Loveland. They have a daughter, Halle (Loveland ’15, Alabama ’19) and a son, Sam (Loveland ’18, Alabama ’22).
