ALBANY, N.Y. – Lucy Burton, a junior forward on the Yale Women's Hockey Team, was given the Mandi Schwartz Award for women's student-athlete of the year in ECAC Hockey at tonight's conference championship banquet.

Burton, a biomedical engineering major with a 3.65 GPA, is just as busy off ice as she is skating for the Bulldogs, who won a school-record 17 games this winter.

Burton participates in the Yale Alzheimer's Buddies Club, where she goes on weekly visits to a nearby Alzheimer's home called RegalCare. She meets with her "buddy," or a woman who lives in the Alzheimer's home to help brighten her day. Burton is also part of the Pi Beta Phi sorority on campus, while serving as a member of the LNC Group, which interviews and chooses the members for higher executive positions. She is also on the Judiciary Board for Pi Beta Phi. In addition to all of that, she signed up this year to be a member of the Mandi Schwartz Marrow Drive Committee.

The Minneapolis, Minn., native's outreach also hits close to home. Burton was an active volunteer for five years at The Minneapolis Children's Hospital, and she also helped raise local awareness against sex trafficking in Minnesota. In 2016, with support of head of sex trafficking unit of the Minneapolis Police Department, she organized a fundraiser to raise awareness about sex trafficking and raise funds for a local shelter for victims. She has volunteered at The Link, which works on overall sex trafficking prevention and houses victims in Minneapolis. She hosted a screening of "I am Jane Doe", a movie representing the realities of sex trafficking, to further public awareness and raise funds for a separate local shelter.

Burton, an academic All-ECAC pick each year, received the Coaches Award for her first season at Yale. Off the ice last spring, she was given an Instructors End-of-Term-Report after completing her Intro to Biomedical Computation (a Biomedical Engineering Coding Course). These are awarded to "a student who has done excellent work in a course."