Career Highlights
- NCAA Champion- Team (2025)
- NCAA Champion- Varsity Four (2025)
- ACC Champion- Team (2025)
- All-ACC Academic Rowing Team
As a Freshman (2024-25) • NCAA Champion (Team, Varsity Four) • ACC Champion (Team)
- All-ACC Academic Rowing Team
- Earned a third-place finish in the Women’s Open 8+ race at the San Diego Fall Crew Classic, coxing "Sam Magee"
- Opened the 2025 spring season with a first-place effort coxing the second varsity four boat at No. 3 Tennessee
- Coxed Stanford's varsity four boat in the Cardinal's top finishes against No. 11 Syracuse at Redwood Shores
- Bested No. 1 Texas' B and No. 22 Oklahoma coxing the third varsity eight boat at the Longhorn Invite
- Took down No. 9 California at the annual Big Row, coxing the varsity four boat
- Coxed the first-ever varsity four national championship to return to The Farm at the 2025 NCAA Championships en route to Stanford’s second NCAA team title in three seasons
Prior to Stanford
- Graduate of Fairfield Ludlowe High School
- Coxed for Saugatuck Rowing Club (2019-2024)
- Coxed Saugatuck Rowing Club’s Varsity Eight to a fourth-place finish at Youth National Championships (2024)
National Team
- Two-time United States U19 National Team Member (2022, 2023)
- Coxed W4+ to first-place finish and new World’s Best Time at U19 World Championships (2022)
- Coxed W8+ to a fourth-place finish at the U19 World Championships (2023)
Personal
- Parents are John and Meg Casano
- Has three siblings, Madeline, Charlotte, and Hannah
Why Ella Casano Chose Stanford
- “As soon as I visited Stanford, I recognized that it is home to people who are extremely dedicated and hardworking in everything that they do, and who are determined to pursue everything to the best of their ability, whether it be in athletics, academics, or elsewhere. Every person that I’ve met at Stanford has been incredibly welcoming, and I knew as soon as I visited that Stanford was a community that I wanted to be a part of.”