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ALBANY, N.Y. -- Landis Stankievech, a senior forward at Princeton University, has been named the 2007-08 ECAC Hockey Student-Athlete of the Year, it was announced Friday at the ECAC Hockey's Annual Awards banquet.  The second recipient of the award, which recognizes academic achievement of ECAC Hockey student-athletes, Stankievech was one of three finalists for this year's honor. Rensselaer's Andrew Lord and Colgate's Mark Anderson also were finalists.

Stankievech is a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering major at Princeton with a grade-point-average of 3.96 on a 4.00 scale.  He has only received two grades that were not "A's" while at Princeton.  He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in November and will study at Oxford next year.  He intends to study philosophy, economics, and politics, after which he hopes to work on environmental issues. 

Stankievech is an elite athlete that has earned a strong reputation throughout the league as one of the top defensive forwards.  He has worked himself into a position to play against the Tigers' opponent's top line each game.  He is the team's top penalty killer and face-off man.

He also has taken an active role in the community by volunteering at local youth practices and Special Olympics skating programs.  After paying tuition from his summer savings, Stankievech donates $1,000 to a charity each year, as he has done even before arriving at Princeton. 

Each school was asked to nominate a top scholar athlete who met the following requirements: a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 on a 4.00 scale through the fall term; participation in a minimum of 50 percent of the team's contests (33 percent of team's minutes for goaltenders); demonstrated leadership on and off the ice (e.g., character, contributions to the community, participation/involvement in institutional groups/committees, etc.).

The finalists were selected by a committee made up of athletic department and university administrators.

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ECAC Hockey boasts elite student-athletes and teams from 12 of the nation's most prestigious institutions - Brown University, Clarkson University, Colgate University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, Quinnipiac University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, St. Lawrence University, Union College, and Yale University.