LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – Colgate men’s ice hockey senior captain Jake Kulevich (Marblehead, Massachusetts) has been named to the ECAC Hockey Third Team.
Kulevich’s all-league honor is the first of his career and gives the Raiders six straight seasons of a player earning all league recognition after his fantastic senior season. Fellow defensemen Brett Corkey (Calgary, Alberta) was a finalist for the league’s best defensive defenseman award.
This season was a memorable year for Kulevich as he tallied career-highs with six goals and 16 assists for 22 points to lead the Raiders. Kulevich was the first Colgate defenseman to record 20 or more points in a single season since Spiro Goulakos in 2013-14. Kulevich is also the first Colgate defenseman since at least the 1999-2000 season to lead the team in points. In addition, he was the 14th player in program history to play 150 games in his career.
Kulevich was also among the better defensemen in ECAC Hockey as his 64 blocked shots were the most by a defensemen in the league that also scored at least 20 points.
In his career, Kulevich had 15 goals and 45 assists for 60 points as well as 256 blocked shots in his 150 games. He was a two-time Dean Coley “Barrel” Award winner, given annual to Colgate’s best defensive player. Academically, Kulevich was rewarded as a three-time ECAC Hockey All-Academic Team selection, three-time Raider Academic Honor Roll selection and was named to the Dean’s List four times in his career.
Kulevich recently signed his first professional contract, an ATO with the AHL’s Manitoba Moose, the affiliate of the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets.
