Growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Coach Lee played club travel hockey for the Gladiator Hockey Club out of the Coliseum in Voorhees, N.J. and competed in the DVHL & Atlantic District of USA Hockey. His summer training and education alternated between the Ocean Hockey Academy in Brick, N.J. and the New England Hockey School in Southern New Hampshire. Coach Lee traveled extensively throughout the East coast and Eastern Canada with the Gladiators up until Midget A then played high school hockey for the Cherry Hill East High School Cougars and as a founding member of the Eastern Regional High School Vikings. He later played club while at Stockton State College and still regularly competes in adult leagues and tournaments in Southern California. Coach Lee is currently certified as a USA Hockey CEP Level 3 Instructor and resides in La Quinta, California with his wife & 2 children.