Bulldog Best: Hat trick in 5-0 win overCornell in ECAC Tournament Championship Game on 3/21/09 that earnedhim tourney MVP honors.

2009-10: Second-team Reebok All-America...First-team All-ECAC pick and the Ivy League Player of the Year...No. 7 on the school’s career points list with 126... 77career goals are fourth best at Yale... 126 points in 122 gamesputs him in a select class of current Division I players who haveover 100 games and as many points as games played... Named to theCollege Hockey News (CHN) 2009-10 Pre-Season All-America squad...Points in 19 of 29 outings... Third in Division I with .72 goalsper game.

2008-09: Second-team All-ECAC andfirst-team All-Ivy... ECAC All-Tourney and tourney MVP... WalterBrown Award semifinalist... Nine multiple-point nights and sixmultiple-goal games... Tallied three in tournament championship winover Cornell at Albany.

2007-08: Third-Team All-ECAC, First TeamAll-Ivy... Led team with 18-9-27... Murray Murdoch Award for Yaleteam MVP for the second year in a row... First on team in pointsand goals... Three game-winning goals... First on team with sixpower-play goals... Carried Yale to a 5-2 win over Clarkson (2/16)with two goals... Eight-game scoring streak in middle of season...Sat for just 16 penalty minutes, less than half of his rookie yeartotal... Ranked 14th in NCAA Division I with 0.56 GPG, second inthe ECAC... Third in ECAC in goals scored (18) despite playingeight less games than the leader... Led Yale past RPI in the firstround of the ECAC Playoffs with an overtime goal on 3/8.

2006-07: ECAC Co-Rookie of the Year,All-ECAC Rookie Team, Third-Team All-ECAC... Ivy League Rookie ofthe Year and First-Team All-Ivy... Named Team MVP and received theMartin Dwyer III award for most outstanding first-year player...Led the Bulldogs in scoring as a freshman with 18-13-31... His 18goals were one shy of the Yale record for freshman scoring... 13assists were second-best on the team... Led team with sixpower-play goals and two shorthanded goals... Scored the first goalof the season shorthanded vs. Holy Cross... Had nine multiple-pointoutings... Named ECAC Player of the Week on 2/4 for a six-pointweekend (which included a hat trick) vs. Quinnipiac andPrinceton... Earned ECAC Rookie of the Week honors on1/8.

At Avon Old Farms: Lettered three timesin hockey... Earned Rookie of the Year honors in his first seasonand captained the team his senior year... Hockey team won two NewEngland Championships... Won the Order of Old Farms for hard workin the classroom, community and athletics.

Personal: Sean RichardBackman is the son of Michael and Toni Backman... Father Michaelplayed in the NHL from 1978-1984 for the New York Rangers... SisterJaclyn plays field hockey for Merrimack College... He is a memberof Ezra Stiles College.