RUSSELL W. MCGEEHAN

Athlete, North Penn High School, 1993

9 Varsity Letters: 2 Football, 3 Winter Track, 4 Spring Track
1993 PIAA STATE DISCUS CHAMPION
1992 PIAA State Championship Discus 3rd place
1993 PTFCA All-State Discus
1992 & 1993 District 1 & SOL Discus Champion
1992 &1993 SOL 1st Team Discus and Shot Put
1993 NPHS Spring Track MVP & Co-Captain
1991 NPHS Sophomore High Scorer Award
1992 NPHS Conver Field Award
Member of 3 SOL League Championships
1992 Member of PIAA State Runner Up Team Championship
East Stroudsburg University, B.S., Business Management, 1997
Pepperdine University School of Law, Juris Doctor Degree, 2004
University of San Diego, Master of Laws Degree, 2012
INDUCTED 2014

Russell was an athlete in winter/spring track and played football while at North Penn High School.  During his senior year he was the co-captain of the boy’s track team.  That year he won the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association AAA (large school) discus championship.  He won several league and Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association District One championships in the discus.  In his junior year he contributed to a second place team finish at the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association state championships.  He played football his sophomore and junior years, starting both years on both the offensive and defensive lines.

Russell began college at Clemson University.  His freshmen year he was selected for All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors for the 35 pound weight throw during the indoor track season.  He medically red-shirted the outdoor track season and transferred to East Stroudsburg University in the spring of his sophomore year.  At East Stroudsburg he was a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference champion in the discus (1997) and won the indoor Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference championships in the shot put (1995) and weight throw (1997).  He was captain of the men’s team during his senior year and set the school record in the weight throw.  He was a two time Academic All-American (outdoor track and field), competed in the weight throw at the 1997 Indoor NCAA Division II Track & Field Championships as well as being named to the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) All East team his senior year for discus.

He earned his undergraduate degree from East Stroudsburg University.  He earned a juris doctor degree from Pepperdine University School of Law and a master of laws degree from the University of San Diego.  He currently works as a tax mediator and serves as an officer in the United States Marine Corps Forces Reserve after serving as a judge advocate on active duty for five years.  He is married to a lovely woman who hails from Portland, Oregon.