2022 Women's Volleyball Roster
Biography
Career Single-Match Highs as of March 31, 2023
Kills: 7, 2x, last: vs. Idaho (11/9/21)
Attacks: 14 vs. Northern Colorado (1/31/21)
Attack Pct. (min. 5 kills):Â 1.000 vs. Southern Utah (10/30/21)
Assists: 56 at South Dakota State (9/2/22)
Service Aces: 5 vs. Portland (8/28/21)
Digs: 18 vs. Montana (10/27/22)
Blocks: 3, 4x, last: vs. Portland State (9/24/22)
Major:Â Health & Physical Education
2022-23 | Senior
Played in 109 sets and started in all 29 of the team's matches...Led the team with 1,049 assists, averaging 9.62 per set to rank fourth in the Big Sky...Posted 20+ assists in 28 matches, 30+ in 11, 40+ in seven, and 50+ in three, including a career-high of 56 at South Dakota State (9/2)...Recorded 218 digs (2.00 per set) to rank third on the team, including 10+ in eight matches for a total of eight double-doubles...Had 28 total blocks, tying a career-high of three against Memphis (8/27) and Portland State (9/24)...Had 26 kills and 27 service aces, including four aces vs. Southern Utah (8/26)...Earned Fall Big Sky All-Academic team honors.
2021-22 | Junior
Played in 94 sets and all 25 of the team's matches...Named Big Sky Player of the Week(11/1) after averaging 9.14 assists per set in a pair of wins over Northern Arizona and Southern Utah...Led the team with 674 assists, averaging 7.17 per set...Set a career-high with 52 assists against Idaho State(10/21)...Posted 20+ assists in 19 of 25 matches, including four, 40+ assist matches...Tied for the team lead with 25 service aces...Earned a new career-high with five service aces against Portland(8/28)...Dropped in 53 kills and had a .400 hitting percentage, with 110 total attacks...Set to career-high with seven kills on eight total attacks against Northern Arizona(10/28)...Recorded 179 digs to rank second on the team, averaging 1.90 per set...Posted a career-high, 15 digs against Southern Utah(9/23) and had five double-digit games during the season...Tallied five solo blocks and 12 block assists...Earned Fall Big Sky All-Academic team honors.
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2020-21 | Junior
Played in 12 matches and 42 sets, making 10 starts in her first season with the Eagles at the setter position… Averaged 6.90 assists per set which was eighth in the Big Sky Conference… Dished 290 total assists… Had double-digit assists in every match, with six over 20, four over 30 and a career-high 50 at Weber State on Jan. 23… Also had five double-doubles in her debut season… Tied her career-high 14 digs twice, once against Portland State on Feb. 7 and at Southern Utah on March 20, earning double-doubles in both matches… Had five matches with 10-or-more digs… Averaged 2.45 digs per set with 103 total… Totaled eight blocks, 10 kills and four service aces... Named to the Fall Big Sky All-Academic team.
Prior to Eastern Washington
Russell is a junior from Spokane, Wash., where she played two years of standout volleyball at Spokane Falls Community college and briefly joined the Gonzaga program before transferring to Eastern Washington. She is immediately eligible to compete and join the Eagles. There is familiarity already in Cheney for Russell, as her sister McKenna Russell is also a junior on the team. The two are triplets and also played with sister Allison at SFCC.
At SFCC, Russell was twice named to the Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC) East Region First Team and was the MVP in 2019. She led the Sasquatch to consecutive NWAC Championship titles with a two-year overall record of 76-2, including a perfect 40-0 season as freshman. As a sophomore, she was named the NWAC Tournament MVP. She ended her career second-all time in total assists in SFCC history, garnering 2,322 in just two seasons.
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Russell is also a two-time AVCA All-American and was named to the second team in 2018 before earning first team honors in 2019. In August of 2019, she earned an AVCA Two-Year College Player of the Week honor and was named the NWAC Player or Setter of the Week multiple times during her career – including the East Region Setter of the Week award 10 times as a freshman.
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Her freshman season saw Russell dish 1,126 assists which was good for eighth in program history at SFCC and her 9.08 assists per set ranked seventh. Russell elevated her play and averaged 9.65 assists per set with 1,196 total as a sophomore.
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Russell prepped at Mead High School where she was a two-time First Team All-Greater Spokane League selection. She was also named to the Washington 4A State All-Tournament team and led the Panthers to a second-place finish in state as a junior and senior.
Personal
She is the daughter of Shannon and Ken Russell. Her mother Shannon, formerly Horn, played volleyball at Eastern Washington in 1989 where she helped the Eagles advance to their first NCAA Tournament and win a Big Sky title. She played in all 33 matches and earned five double doubles that season. The 1989 team was recently inducted into Eastern's Hall of Fame.
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