Princeton University Athletics
Ani Kozak Named ECAC’s Project Rousseau Community Service Award Winner
April 10, 2026 | Women's Ice Hockey
PRINCETON, N.J. - Princeton Women's Ice Hockey's Ani Kozak has been named the ECAC's 2025-26 Project Rousseau Community Service Award winner.
The Project Rousseau Community Service Award honors an ECAC Hockey student-athlete who exemplifies compassion and a strong commitment to community service.
Kozak has made an impact on and off the ice, appearing in 74 career games while earning two ECAC All-Academic honors as a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering major with a minor in Entrepreneurship.
In 2024, she co-founded Hockey for Hayastan, a nonprofit dedicated to growing hockey in Armenia. In 2025, she helped lead a free five-day youth camp in Yerevan for 30 participants and plans to return this summer. She also interned with Let Her Play, developing platforms to expand mentorship and leadership opportunities for girls in sports.
At Princeton, Kozak is active in the Princeton Armenian Society and serves as co-president of the Student-Athlete Service Council, leading and supporting community engagement initiatives.
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.
