DANBURY, CONN. — ECAC Hockey is proud to announce Princeton’s Jayden Sison as the 2025-26 Men’s Project Rousseau Community Service Award Winner, as announced on Thursday night at the awards ceremony in Lake Placid, New York.
The Project Rousseau Community Service Award recognizes an ECAC Hockey student-athlete who demonstrates qualities of compassion and service to either one organization or a variety of volunteer activities in one school year. The award recognizes and honors an exceptional student-athlete who makes volunteerism and community service a way of life.
Sison has made an impact on and off the ice, playing in 113 career games to date, accumulating
26 points as both a defenseman and forward. Sison is majoring in public and international affairs with a 3.77 cumulative GPA and is a Krampade/AHCA Academic All-American, as well as a three-time ECAC All-Academic Selection.
During his time at Princeton, Jayden has offered many hours of his free time to multiple service initiatives. He is a member of the Princeton Student-Athlete Service Council, helping his team become more active in the PVC Youth Sports Clinic, which brings together 200+ student-athletes and 300 children from our community to learn, compete, and be active together. Through the Reading with the Tigers program, Jayden has grown the hockey team’s presence in local classrooms, where he and his teammates visit with students to answer questions and share their favorite children’s books. He has served on the leadership team for Tiger Pals in the Princeton community, where he has coordinated small-group relationship-building mentorship between his teammates and young men in an underprivileged school environment. He coordinated a visit from the men’s and women’s teams to Community Park Elementary, where more than 50 hockey players hosted a joint reading, signed cards, and donated bookmarks to over 300 students.
At the beginning of the year, Jayden welcomed Grayson to the Tigers through Team IMPACT. He served as the primary point of contact between the team and Grayson, coordinating regular practice visits, attendance at Princeton events, movie nights, mentorship, and his participation in both home and away games. Jayden has also made time to give back to his local Philadelphia Community, serving as a Program Delivery Intern with the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation, where he coordinated on-ice and off-ice programming, events, and engagement for one of hockey’s largest philanthropic organizations.
On February 24, Sison was one of five collegiate ice hockey student-athletes named a finalist for the 31st annual Hockey Humanitarian Award, presented annually to college hockey's finest citizen. The 2026 Hockey Humanitarian Award recipient will be announced on Friday, April 10th, during the NCAA Men's Frozen Four weekend in Las Vegas.
About Project Rousseau
Project Rousseau is a non-profit organization that helps young people in communities in the highest need to reach their full potential and excel through higher education. We primarily serve refugee and asylum-seeking youth and families, homeless youth, and reservation-dwelling Native American youth. We provide four pillars of programming to holistically address the needs of our beneficiaries: 1) Student Needs (Legal Services and Social Services), 2) Academics, 3) Community Service, and 4) Broadening Horizons.
Founded in 2011 as a one-to-one mentoring program for young people in the Harlem community, Project Rousseau has grown based on two guiding principles: to serve the absolutely highest need young people we can possibly find, and to continuously grow our services to meet all of the needs of the young people we serve. Overall, we serve over 2500 youth and families. Our students go onto attend Ivy League Schools, MIT, Stanford, and many other universities, while others go onto community college and to pursue extraordinary vocations. We also have a program in which we hire our own beneficiaries, for they are the ultimate experts in their communities and our services.
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