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As a Senior in 2012-13: Played in 23 games for the Ravens...Fall/Spring Northeast-10 Conference Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll selection...Tallied 2-5-7 while recording 46 shots on goal...Picked up 12 penalties for 24 minutes and scored two power-play goals...Opened the season with a power-play goal and an assist at Johnson & Wales on 11/3...Dished out an assist at Saint Anselm on 12/5...Scored a power-play goal at Salve Regina on 12/8...Chipped in an assist against Assumption on 12/30...Contributed an assist against Southern New Hampshire on 2/12...Dished out an assist against Westfield State on 2/19.
2012-13 Statistics 

As a Junior in 2011-12: Played in 18 games for the Ravens...Spring Northeast-10 Conference Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll selection...Tallied four assist for four points...Picked up six penalties for 12 minutes...Dished out an assist in the ICFCU Shootout against Southern New Hampshire on 11/12...Picked up an assist against SUNY Geneseo on 1/6...Contributed an assist at Stonehill on 1/23...Chipped in an assist against Assumption on 1/18.
2011-12 Statistics 

As a Sophomore in 2010-11: Played in 22 games for the Ravens...Fall Northeast-10 Conference Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll selection...Tallied one goal and one assist for two points...Scored once on the power play and picked up 16 penalties for 32 minutes...Notched a power-play goal at Johnson & wales on 11/5...Dished out an assist against Assumption on 12/4.
2010-11 Statistics 

As a Freshman in 2009-10: Played in 19 games for the Ravens...Finished tied for 11th among Northeast-10 Conference defensemen in scoring (eight points) and tied for 15th among conference freshmen in scoring...Tied for third on the team in power-play goals (3)...Tallied three goals and five assists...Picked up 17 penalties for 34 minutes...Made his collegiate debut at Westfield State on 11/12...Picked up the first points of his career with a pair of assists against Stonehill on 11/21...Scored his first career goal, on the power play, at Western New England on 11/24...Netted a power-play goal and added an assist against Nichols on 12/9...Picked up an assist at Saint Michael's on 12/12...Dished out an assist against Southern New Hampshire on 2/6...Scored on the power play against Stonehill in the quarterfinal round of the Northeast-10 Championship on 2/27.
2009-10 Statistics 

Before Franklin Pierce: Four-year letterwinner at Marlboro (Mass.) High School...All-Star selection by both the Worcester Telegram & Gazetteand Metrowest as both a junior and a senior...Team MVP as a junior...Captured a state championship as a freshman...Named team's Most Improved Player during his freshman campaign...Played junior hockey for the Boston Jr. Bruins (Empire)...Attended Quinsigamond CC in 2008-09, but did not play a sport.

Personal: Son of Kelly and Stanley Russell...Has an older brother, Tyler...A business management major.