Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Athletics

Finished career with eight goals and 30 assists for 38 points in 106 games …

2005-06: Played 18 games … Tallied one goal and five assists for six points … Assessed nine penalties for 21 minutes … Had a five-game point scoring streak (1 goal, 4 assists) from Oct. 15 to Oct. 29 … ECACHL All-Academic …

2004-05:  Played in 33 games … Had four goals and 12 assists for 16 points … Second among the team’s defensemen in assists and points … Notched four power play goals … Assessed 14 penalties for 28 minutes … Had a power play goal and five assists in 19 ECACHL contests … Registered six penalties for 12 minutes against league foes … Ranked fourteenth in the league in defensemen scoring … ECACHL All-Academic …Team’s Scholar-Athlete Award recipient … Enjoyed a three-game point scoring streak with two-or-more points per game (2 goals, 5 assists) from Oct. 29 to Nov. 5 … Tallied career-high three assists against UMass Lowell (10/29) … Posted a goal and an assist in 5-0 win over Mercyhurst (10/30) … ECACHL Weekly Honor Roll (11/1) … Notched a goal and an assist in 5-3 win over Clarkson (11/5) … Had one assist in three of four games from Jan. 21 to Jan. 29 … Recorded a goal and an assist in ECACHL Playoff Game at Brown (3/4) … Recorded at least one point in final two games (2 goals, 1 assist) to end the season (3/4 to 3/5) …

2003-04: Played in 23 games … Registered two goals and ten assists for 12 points … Recorded a power play goal, a game-winning goal and six penalties for 12 minutes … Had nine points, including two goals and seven assists, in 13 ECAC games … Collected a power play goal, a game-winner and six penalty minutes against league foes … Had at least one point in eight games, at least one goal in two contests and at least one assist in eight games … Recorded three multiple-point games, including a three-point effort … Ranked twenty-first in ECAC in defensemen scoring … ECAC All-Academic … Team’s Scholar-Athlete Award … Had the game-winning goal and two assists against Vermont (11/14) … Registered four points (1 goal, 3 assists) in two-game span from Dec. 5 to Dec. 6 … Set up two goals against Yale (12/5) … Had a goal and an assist against Princeton (12/6) … ECAC Weekly Honor Roll on Dec. 8 …

2002-03: Played in 32 games … Scored a power play goal with three assists … Had seven penalties for 14 minutes … Tallied a goal, an assist and eight penalty minutes in 18 ECAC games … Had one point in four games … Registered assists in back-to-back games from Dec. 29 to Jan. 3 … Tallied first collegiate point – an assist – in Rensselaer Holiday Tournament against Princeton (12/29) … Scored first collegiate goal on the power play at Colgate (2/22) …

Before Rensselaer:  Played for the Cedar Rapids Rough Riders of the United States Hockey League (USHL) … Tallied four goals and 22 assists for 26 points with 42 penalty minutes in 63 games in 2001-02 … Ended the longest game in USHL history by scoring in the fourth overtime of Game 2 of the first round of the playoffs … Played on Slovakia’s 2001 World Junior Championship Under-20 team … Assistant captain of Slovakia’s 1999 Bronze Medal-winning Under-18 World Junior Championship Team … Ranked sixtieth by the Central Scouting Bureau for European players in 1999 … Participated in the 1998 Viking Cup, in which his team finished in fourth place ... Part of three Slovakian National Championship teams …

Personal: Alexander Valentin … Last name is pronounced val-en-TEEN ... Born April 23, 1981 … Management major ... Dean’s List … Enjoys playing tennis, soccer, basketball and video games … Son of Marta Valentinova and Jan Valentin.