Meet the Players
Jason
Lee
So./So. Sydney, Australia/ Trinity Gramma r
5-8• DUS
2008-09 Season (Freshman): Finished his freshman campaign with a 16-19 singles record and 19-14 doubles record...Picked up his first career singles victory in the fall at the ITA Northeast Regionals as he downed George Washington’s Erik Hannah (6-3, 7-6 (7-5))…Went 4-6 in fall singles action...Picked up four victories at the Big Ten Singles Tournament in November…Won five doubles matches in the fall…Teamed up with Ryan Gormley at the PSU Fall Classic…Won two matches with Gormley, defeating Alabama’s Ricky Doverspike and Andrew Felsenthal and Princeton’s Alex KruegerWyman and George Carpeni…Finished the spring ranked 22nd in the ITA Northeast Regional rankings…Earned his first two victories of the spring on Jan. 24, defeating St. Bonaventure’s Jonathan Luce (6-1, 6-2) and Saint Joeseph’s Michael Stauble (6-0, 6-2)…Had a nice straight-set victory over No. 21 Oklahoma State’s Aleksey Bessonov…Picked up a point in the No. 3 bout on March 8 at No. 74 Maryland, defeating Nickolai Nielsen (7-6 (7-2), 64)…Gave the Lions a 2-0 lead versus No. 52 Virginia Commonwealth at the Blue-Gray Tennis Classic as he downed Benjamin Bouhana (6-4, 64)…Picked up a point in the Lions’ matchup with No. 28 Minnesota on March 27, beating Sebastian Gallego…Earned the only point for Penn State at No. 47 Michigan as he downed Mike Sroczynski (6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5))…Earned his second consecutive victory versus Michigan State’s Scott Rasmussen (6-3, 6-2)…Defeated Bucknell’s Mark Malloy (6-3, 6-0) on April 15…Clinched the match for Penn State versus Purdue in the Big Ten Tournament, defeating Eric Ramos (6-3, 7-5)…Teamed up with Adam Slagter for the entire spring season in doubles…Slagter and Lee finished first in the ITA Northwest Regional doubles rankings and 77th in the national rankings…e pairing picked up two
victories on Jan. 24, defeating Chris Post and Leo Mochizuki (8-2) of St. Bonaventure and Phil Bayliss and Michael Stauble (8-6) of Saint Joseph’s…Earned a key doubles win on Feb. 7 over Virginia Tech’s 20th-ranked pairing of Nicolas Delgado and Luka Somen…Helped the Lions win the doubles point versus Purdue as they defeated Slavko Bijelica and Griff Nienberg (8-4)…Clinched the doubles point for Penn State, downing Maryland’s Andrew Orban and Boris Fetbroyt…Earned a second consecutive doubles win, defeating William & Mary’s Keizel Juneau and Sebastien Vidal…Earned a nice 8-6 victory over Virginia Commonwealth’s Benjamin Bouhana and Emil Lindgren…Defeated Iowa’s 55thranked pairing of Christian Bierich and Nikita Zotov (8-5) on March 29…Earned the doubles point for the Lions, beating Michigan State’s Jason Norville and John Allare (9-7)…Went on to win four consecutive doubles matches from April 12-17…Defeated Santiago Gruter and Jeremy Langer of No. 53 Indiana (8-5)…Clinched the doubles point versus No. 30 Wisconsin with an upset doubles victory over the 19th-ranked pairing of Moritz Nauman and Marek Michalicka (9-7)…Defeated Bijelica and Nienberg of Purdue (9-8 (8-3) for a second time of the season in the Big Ten Tournament. Junior Career: Finished his high school career with an overall record of 57-3, going undefeated in his final three seasons…Played in the Australian Juniors Open in 2006...An Australian National Junior Champion in 2006 and 2007.
Season 2008-09 Career
Lee’s Career Statistics
Overall 16-19 16-19
Duals 12-13 12-13
Big Ten 3-7 3-7
Doubles 19-14 19-14
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