2023-2024 • JUNIOR SEASON
Awards: Named the 2024 Hockey Humanitarian Award winner…Earned B1G Distinguished Scholar and Academic All-Big Ten honors.
Season: Appeared in all 36 games…Had career highs across the board with eight goals and six assists for 14 points.
at LIU (10/7): Scored the game-winning goal in a 3-2 victory. at Clarkson (10/13): Tallied his first career multi-point game with two assists in a 4-2 win. UAA (10/27): Scored a goal in a 6-5 loss. Notre Dame (11/4-5): Had a goal in each game during a pair of ties. at Michigan State (11/11): Notched a goal in a 5-3 loss. at Wisconsin (12/8): Tallied an assist in a hard-fought loss. at Notre Dame (1/19): Scored the lone goal in a 4-1 loss. Ohio State (1/26): Registered an assist in a 4-3 win. Michigan (2/17): Notched an assist in a 4-2 win. Wisconsin (2/24): Scored a goal in a 3-2 loss. at Ohio State (3/1): Tallied an assist in a 5-2 victory. at Minnesota (3/8): Recorded an assist in a 5-1 loss.
2022-2023 • SOPHOMORE SEASON
Awards: Named a 2022-23 Academic All-Big Ten honoree…Named a 2022-23 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar.
Season: Skated in eight games…registered a pair of assists for two points.
St. Thomas (10/21): Tallied an assist in a 3-2 win. Notre Dame (1/21): Collected an assist in a 3-2 victory.
2021-22 • FRESHMAN SEASON
Season: Skated in 17 games after joining the team in January…Tallied four goals with one assist for five points.
at Army (1/1): Scored his first goal in his first game in a 5-3 win. Minnesota (2/19): Tallied one assist in a 6-4 loss. No. 12/12 Ohio State (3/5): Notched one goal in a 3-2 victory. No. 12/12 Ohio State (3/6): Registered the game-winning goal in the 2-1 win to clinch the best-of-three Big Ten quarterfinal series. No. 2/2 Minnesota (3/12): Scored on the powerplay in a 3-2 defeat.
BEFORE PENN STATE
Played the past season and half with the Jersey Hitmen of the NCDC serving as team captain during the 2021-22 season before joining the Nittany Lions in December…Led the Hitmen to their third-straight Founders Cup Championship during the 2020-21 season as well as a Dineen Cup Championship…Had 36 points on 13 goals and 23 assists in 25 games in 2021-22…Registered 45 points on 18 goals and 27 assists in 48 games during the 2020-21 campaign…Played four seasons of preparatory hockey at the Nichols School in Buffalo from 2016-2020 serving as an alternate captain as a junior before donning the ‘C’ for his senior season in 2019-20…Appeared in 187 games during his four year registering 206 points on 96 goals and 110 assists…Tallied 28 goals while adding 45 assists for 73 points during his senior season at Nichols in 2019-20.
PERSONAL
Son of Mary and Erik Lugris…Has one brother, AJ…Mother Mary was a member of the swimming team at La Salle University…Majoring in marketing.
LUGRIS ON PENN STATE
“It’s always been a dream of mine to play at Penn State. Not only is their hockey program second to none, but the academics are also spectacular. I couldn’t be more excited to wear the blue and white.”
