Georgia Russell

Height:
5-8
Class:
Redshirt Sophomore
High School:
Tupelo HS
Hometown:
Tupelo, Miss.

2016 (Senior): Played in all 20 matches in her final season with 14 starts … Started the first 12 matches of the year and dished out an assist in the second game vs. Northwestern State (8/21) … Finished the season with five shots … Finished her career with 2300-plus minutes played in 71 matches, two goals and two assists.

2015 (Junior): Played in all but two contests and drew a start in eight matches … Credited with one goal on the season … Found the net in the Rebels’ 2-0 win over No. 10 South Carolina (10/11) … Totaled 645 minutes on the pitch in her final season with the program … Took eight shots on the year …

2014 (Sophomore): Played in 17 matches on the season, starting two of them ... Split time between the back line and the front line ... Made her two starts at Alabama (10/5) and at Kentucky (10/17) ... Scored her first collegiate goal in a 4-0 win over Middle Tennessee (9/14) ... Notched her first collegiate assist in a 5-1 win over Louisiana-Lafayette (8/31) ... Played 488 minutes on the year and tallied a total of three points ...

2013 (Freshman): Saw action in 13 games as one of the first players off the bench for the Rebels ... Suffered a season-ending injury against No. 7 South Carolina (10/20) ... Played 263 minutes prior to her injury with a season-long 60 minutes against UALR (9/22) ... Helped the Rebels post seven shutouts before her injury against the Gamecocks ... Named a Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-District first team selection ...

2012 (Redshirt): Suffered an injury in the preseason and did not see action ... Redshirted ...

HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Tupelo High School in Tupelo, Miss ... Started every game during her high school career ... Recorded 68 goals and 24 assists ... Helped Tupelo to a 64-14-4 record over her four seasons and earned several accolades including being named to the All-State First Team, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Player of the Year and two-time team MVP ... Three-year member of Tupelo's track team and was a three-time finalist in the class 6A 300m hurdles ... As a junior, she broke the school record in the 300m hurdles, which stood for 15 years, with a time of 46.35 ... Five-time Rotary Scholar, an ACT Scholar and a member of the National Honor Society ... Graduated early from high school with a 4.0 GPA and was fifth in her class of 514.

ODP: Mississippi ODP program (2006-08).

CLUB: Played club soccer for Tupelo FC, Fire and most recently Birmingham United SA ... Led the team in goals and points for the past two years.

PERSONAL: Born January 25, 1994 ... Daughter of Bo and Noel Russell ... Her father, Bo, was an All-SEC Defensive Back in 1989 at Mississippi State and is a 1993 graduate of the Ole Miss Law School ... She is the fourth generation in her family to attend Ole Miss but the first to do so as an undergraduate … Pursuing her Masters in Accountancy after earning her undergrad degree in that same field.