
Height: | 6-1 |
Weight: | 195 |
Year: | Junior |
Hometown: | St. Albert, ALB |
High School: | Bellerose Composite |
Position: | D |
Previous Team: | Drayton Valley Thunder |
S/C: | L |
2009-10 Assistant Captain
As a Sophomore in 2009: Played in all 33 games ...
Valuable piece of Brown's special teams as well, having played on
both the top power-play and penalty-kill ... Scored his first goal
of the season, on the power-play, against Yale ... Posted a
power-play assist on the tying goal in 3-3 tie with Harvard ...
Tallied an assist for the second straight game, against Yale ...
Posted an assist against RPI ... Notched an assist against
Providence ... Earned an assist on the power-play, giving Brown a
1-0 lead, in 3-2 win at Quinnipiac ... Tallied an assist against
#10 Cornell ... One of 24 Bears named to the ECAC Hockey
All-Academic Squad.
2007-2008: Missed the entire season with an injury
suffered during the fall.
As a Freshman in 2007: Made an immediate impact on
the blueline, appearing in all 32 games ... Finished the season
with 14 points (3g, 11a), including one power-play goal ... Tied
for fourth on the team with a "+7" rating ... Led all freshman in
scoring and was third among all Brown defensemen ... Earned
significant time on both the power-play and penalty-kill ...
Notched his first career point with an assist on a power-play goal
in 3-3 tie with Merrimack ... Tallied an assist on the game-winning
power-play tally in 7-3 win over Wayne State ... Had another assist
on the gamewinning goal in 2-1 win over PC ... Notched a point for
the second straight game with his first career goal, giving Brown a
1-0 lead with a power-play tally in 4-1 win over St. Lawrence ...
Earned an assist on a power-play goal in 3-2 overtime win over Yale
... Had an assist on the game-winning goal in overtime against
Mercyhurst ... Posted the first multiple-point game of his career
with a goal and an assist against Union ... Scored his third goal
of the year to put Brown up 3-2 in 6-3 win over Quinnipiac ...
Picked up an assist at #10 Clarkson ... Posted two assists in the
Bears' 6-6 tie with Harvard ... Earned two assists in Brown's First
Round series at Princeton with one on the Bears' third goal in game
one and another on a power-play goal in game three ... One of 20
Bears named to the ECAC Hockey All-Academic Team.
Before Brown: Russell played for the Drayton
Valley Thunder of the AJHL for two seasons (2004-2006) ... Named
Thunder's Best Defenseman, Best Defensive Player, and team MVP at
the conclusion of the 2005-2006 season ... An assistant captain in
2006, he finished third on the team in scoring with 52 points (8g,
44a) in 58 games ... Scored three game-winning goals and six
power-play goals ... Also had 125 PIMS ... Was runner-up for the
top defenseman in the AJHL in his last season in the league ...
Named a Second Team All-Star in 2006 and was a member of the AJHL
North Viking Cup team, earning a gold medal at the 2006 Viking Cup
as an assistant captain ... Named to Canadian Junior "A" Hockey
League Prospects game as a member of team "West" in 2005 ... In his
first season with Drayton Valley, Russell was named First Team
All-Rookie and to the AJHL Prospects game ... Spent the 2003-2004
season with the St. Albert Raiders in the Alberta Midget "AAA"
League ... Named League MVP as a captain of the team ... Also named
to the All-Star team.
Personal: Jeremy John Russell is the son of Sharon
Russell of St. Albert, Alberta ... Born in 1987 ... Jeremy has a
sister, Allison ... Attended Bellerose Composite High School ...
Member of Executive Council at Bellerose Composite High School ...
Interests: Golf, Softball, Weight Lifting ...
Concentration: Economics and Neuroscience.