May 30, 2009

Jubinville Recipient of Prestigious Award

Princeton senior forward Lee Jubinville was named one of five 2009 recipients of The William Winston Roper Trophy Thursday night at the PVC Senior Student-Athlete Awards Banquet. The Roper Trophy is the highest male student-athlete award at Princeton.

The award was originally given by Mrs. William Winston Roper and the Class of 1902 in honor of Princeton’s famed football coach. It goes annually to “a Princeton senior male of high scholastic rank and outstanding qualities of sportsmanship and general proficiency in athletics.” It has been awarded annually since 1936.

Jubinville graduates as one of the most decorated players ever to play for the Princeton men’s hockey team. He came to Princeton as a strong defensive forward but developed into one of the most dangerous players in all of college hockey. He led the team in scoring in two of his four seasons, including a magical junior year in which he helped lead Princeton to the Ivy League and ECAC championships and its first NCAA tournament appearance in 10 years.

Jubinville was Princeton’s leading scorer and the ECAC and Ivy League scoring champion as a junior. His performance led to his being named the ECAC and Ivy League Players of the Year, becoming the first Princeton player ever to win the ECAC year-end award. He was also named a first-team All-America, becoming one of four Princeton hockey players ever to achieve the honor, and was Princeton’s first candidate for the Hobey Baker Award, college hockey’s equivalent of the Heisman Trophy.

Jubinville helped Princeton back to the NCAA tournament again as a senior. He completed his career with 99 career points, leaving him 14th all-time at Princeton in scoring.