Coach Profile
CONNOR RUSSEL
Career Highlights
2016
- Played in seven games, going 9-for-29 on faceoffs with four ground balls
- Won four faceoffs out of 10 in road victory at UMass (3/8)
- 3-for-6 on faceoffs with a ground ball in 12-8 win vs. Binghamton (4/16)
- 2015
- Won 52.8% (102-193) of faceoffs in first eight games of the year, grabbing 57 ground balls
- Won 14-26 faceoffs (53.8%) with six ground balls in season-opening victory at Drexel (2/21)
- Career-high 14 ground balls, a caused turnover, an assist and 16-26 on faceoffs (61.5%) in road win over Canisius (3/17)
- Won 24 of 42 faceoffs (57.1%) with 13 ground balls in win at Harvard (3/25)
- Won all five faceoff attempts in last game played vs. UMass Lowell (3/28)
- 2014
- Primary faceoff specialist for UAlbany, playing in 15 games with eight starts
- Took 282 faceoffs, winning 131 and grabbing 68 ground balls
- Four 10-ground balls games, including vs. Vermont (3/29), winning 18 of 28 faceoffs, and at Hartford (4/6), going 16-28 on faceoffs
- HIGH SCHOOL
- Four-year varsity letterwinner in lacrosse, football and hockey at Penfield HS
- 2012 High School All-American
- All-county honors all four seasons
- All-Greater Rochester honors in 2011 and 2012
- Led Penfield to the Section V Class A championship in 2013
- Team captain in lacrosse as a senior, captaining hockey team as a junior and senior
- 70% faceoff success rate and 140 ground balls as a senior
- Finishing career with a 70% faceoff success rate, 620 ground balls and 30 goals
- COACHING EXPERIENCE
- Coaching Staff member University at Albany
- Coaching Staff member SUNY Geneseo
- Coaching Staff member College of Saint Rose
