Catherine Panagiotopoulos is Nick Swisher's girlfriend

Catherine Panagiotopoulos is Nick Swisher’s baseball girlfriend.

Catherine and Nick met in 2000 when he was playing in the Cape Cod League for the Wareham Gatemen. They spent that summer hanging out as friends, but they didn’t reconnect until the Oakland A’s visited the Boston Red Sox last fall. Swisher went 1 for 8 with 3 strikeouts as the Red Sox swept the two-game series, but with the playoffs out of reach and Catherine in the stands, he may have had other things on his mind.

Catherine spent ten years in the modeling industry before opening her own modeling agency,CMG Modeling Group, in 2007. She’s a big baseball fan (though football is her true love), and she’s spending this summer in Chicago supporting Nick in his first season with the White Sox.

If you’re a fan of Dave Matthews Band, you probably recognize Catherine as the girl on the cover of Recently.

And if you’re not familiar with Nick Swisher, he’s one of the most charitable guys in sports. He does a lot of cool stuff with sick kids, and he’s an ambassador to the EIF Foundation and the Women’s Cancer Research Fund. You can find all the details (including donation information) on Nick Swisher’s charities page.

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