Maclellan Named Candidate for Lowe's Senior CLASS Award
PROVIDENCE, RI – Brown senior captain Jack Maclellan (Calgary, ALB) has been named a candidate for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award, which is presented each year to the outstanding senior NCAA Division I Student-Athlete of the Year across ten different sports. The acronym "CLASS" stands for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School®.
One of 20 candidates for the 2012 Men's Hockey Award, Maclellan is one of three senior student-athletes from the Ivy League and ECAC Hockey, joining Dartmouth's Doug Jones and Cornell's Keir Ross. The 20 candidates will be narrowed to 10 finalists midway through the regular season, and those 10 names will be plaed on the official ballot. Ballots will be distributed through a nationwide voting system to media, Division I men's coaches and fans who will select one finalist who best exemplifies excellence in the four Cs of Community, Classroom, Character, and Competition.
An Economics concentrator with a 3.50 GPA, Maclellan has been selected to the ECAC Hockey All-Academic Team three straight years, earning Academic All-Ivy honors in 2011. Despite a hockey acumen that has drawn the attention of professional scouts, Maclellan chose to remain at Brown for his senior season saying, "forgoing my senior year and giving up a Brown degree was just something I wasn't willing to do." Luiz Valente, the faculty advisor for the men's hockey team, said: "Jack Maclellan is a true embodiment of the ideal of the well rounded student-athlete. This bright and articulate young man has approached his schoolwork with the same dedication that is evident in his performance as a world-class athlete as well as in his solid commitment to the values of our campus wide community. As such, he is destined to succeed in any career he chooses to pursue, whether inside or outside the realm of athletics."
A pre-season First Team All-League selection in 2011-2012 by the ECAC Hockey coaches, Maclellan earned Second Team All-ECAC Hockey honors in 2011 and was nominated for the 2011 Hobey Baker Memorial Award as a junior. Maclellan has been Brown's leading scorer in each of the past two seasons. As a sophomore in 2010, Maclellan led the Bears with 34 points (15g, 19a), all career-highs and also led the team with three short-handed goals and two game-winning goals, including a series clinching short-handed game-winner in the 2010 ECAC Quarterfinal series against top-seeded and 5th-ranked Yale. That series win sent Brown to the ECAC Final Four for the first time since 2003. Maclellan led the Bears again in 2011, posting 31 points (14g, 17a), despite missing six games due to a season-ending injury. In Brown's mid-January upset over #1 Yale, Maclellan posted a goal and an assist. He also had big games in Brown's 6-1 win over #10 Boston University (1g, 1a), a 5-5 tie with #6 New Hampshire (3a), and a 4-4 tie with #2 Boston University (1g). He also led the Bears with two short-handed goals and had three power-play tallies. In 91 games, Maclellan has 71 points (31g, 40a), while averaging over a point-per-game during the past two seasons (65 points in 61 games).
An Assistant Captain last year, Maclellan will serve as the Bears' captain in 2011-12. A true sportsman and selfless teammate, Maclellan is rarely assessed for penalties on the ice, and enters his senior year having been whistled for just 33 penalties (85 minutes) in three seasons. As the Bears' leading scorer last year, Maclellan missed Brown's final six games after his season was cut short one shift into the Bears' game at Princeton on February 18th. In that game, the blade of an opponent's skate cut through Maclellan's skate and severed the tendon of his big toe and fractured a bone in his foot. He has come back from what could have been a career-ending injury and was skating again by the spring.
Throughout his collegiate career, Maclellan has been involved with Brown's partnership with the Vartan Gregorian Elementary School at Fox Point, participating in activities at the school and visiting with students. This season, Maclellan, along with Assistant Captain Bobby Farnham (North Andover, MA) have partnered with the Thomas E. Smith Fight to Cure Paralysis Foundation and Team Impact on two big community service projects. During his time at home in Calgary, Maclellan is a member of College Hockey Calgary, an organization aiming to support minor hockey programs through networks of coaches and mentorship programs. In other seasons at Brown, Maclellan has been involved in community service projects such as a toy drive benefiting the Providence Children's Hospital and raising money and awareness for the Prostate Cancer Foundation through "Mo'vember," an initiative the team will be organizing again this November.
