Schools
Michelle Russell Out as Dundee-Crown Basketball Coach
Russell has been the varsity coach since 2008, according to the Daily Herald.
Dundee-Crown High School girls basketball coach will not return next season.
Dundee-High School administrators informed Michelle Russell — who has coached the varsity team since 2008 — that "should not be retained" as the coach in the future, according to the Daily Herald.
The record for the team during Russell's five seasons was 32-103, but the team had a 15-11 record in 2012, according to McHenryCountySports.com. Russell told McHenry County Sports she was "extremely surprised and shocked" by the decision to let her go.
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Russell teaches at Westfield Community School, is a 1991 graduate of Dundee-Crown High School and was the girls basketball program's all-time leading scorer before go on to play college basketball Valparaiso and Purdue-Calumet, according to the Daily Herald.
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