Lee Jin-gyu should not be confused with Lee Jin-kyu.
Lee Jin-gyu | |
Birth Date: | 13 January 2000 |
Birth Place: | Boulder, CO |
Position: | Forward |
Height Cm: | 163 |
Weight Kg: | 59 |
League: | NCAA |
Team: | Yale Bulldogs |
Former Teams: | Phoenix |
Sex: | f |
Ntl Team: | KOR |
Ntl Team 2: | COR |
Career Start: | 2017 |
Grace Lee (Lee Jin-gyu) (born 13 January 2000) is an American-South Korean ice hockey player. She competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics as a member of the unified Korea women's national ice hockey team.[1] She also plays for the Yale University women's hockey team.
She competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics as part of a unified team of 35 players drawn from both North and South Korea. The team's coach was Sarah Murray and the team was in Group B competing against Switzerland, Japan and Sweden.[2]
Following her Olympic appearance, Lee competed with the South Korean team at the 2018 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I Group B tournament,[3] where she contributed 4 points (2 goals and 2 assists).[4]
Lee began her college ice hockey career with the Yale University women's ice hockey program in the 2019-2020 season.[5] During her rookie season, she was named ECAC Rookie of the Week for the first week of November scoring 5 points (2 goals, 3 assists), and was also named ECAC Rookie of the month of November for tallying 9 points on 5 goals and 4 assists. [6]