Fedun Earns Prestigious Award
Princeton defenseman Taylor Fedun was among a group of
five individuals honored Thursday with the William Winston Roper
Trophy, the top honor given to male senior-athletes at
Princeton, during Princeton’s Senior-Athlete
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.
The 2011 recipients are Fedun, Mark Amirault, Kareem Maddox, Robin Prendes and Josh Walburn.
Fedun completed his senior season with the Princeton men's hockey team as the program's second all-time leading scorer among defenseman, with 20 goals and 48 assists for 68 points in 127 games on the Tiger blue line. A team captain his senior year, he and his classmates graduate with the most wins of any class in the Princeton men's hockey program's 100-plus year history, and he helped the Tigers to an ECAC championship as freshman and two of the program's three NCAA tournament appearances.
Fedun is a two-time All-ECAC and All-Ivy selection and was named a second-team All-America this season, becoming the seventh Princetonian to earn All-America honors. Following his senior season, he signed an NHL contract with the Edmonton Oilers and will pursue a professional career beginning next fall.
A four-year member of the ECAC All-Academic Team and an Academic All-Ivy selection, Fedun is a mechanical engineering major from Edmonton, Alberta. Along with three classmates, including senior men's squash player David Letourneau, Taylor designed and built a prototype of a hovercraft for his senior project.
