Quotes by Doug Russell

“Michelle did a good job, ... but the population exploded in August. There are a lot of mosquitoes out right now. We’ve picked up our spraying recently.”

“Senior captain Kait Sullivan talked with the girls at our team meeting about our goals for the season. Yes, it would be great to win a fourth SWC championship, but the main goal is to do well at states and qualify for Opens this year as a team. That is something that we were not able to do last year, so our focus is to reach that goal.”

“I do believe this year that the fifth, sixth and seventh spots will be challenged by other Newtown girls this year, ... which is a wonderful thing to have in cross country. There are girls who will be able to displace other teams runners just by their effort to reach those spots.”

“I feel that this group of girls, the entire team, has already come together as a unit.”

“Im thinking for some reason the SWC meet seems to be very important to a lot of people. It should be; you want to win the conference. But before, people tended to peak too early.”

“We have goals set higher for ourselves. But Im not changing anything were doing. And this (Fairfield Hills) is probably the toughest course weve run this year, which will be good preparation for the states.”

“What we have put together is the worlds largest carbon trading fund.”

“From what I understand of the domestic offset program, the government has decided they would like to have any investments in greenhouse gas reduction projects stay in Canada,”

“The town car I use is available for anyone, ... Its not mine, per se. Its available for council members and employees.”

“Lets go save some lives,”